Interesting interpretation of Chu ga Mantis, this is the same Chuka that is in Donn Draegers book, correct?
I read this book once, a lot of the stuff seemed so different than the “normal SPM” which I’ve seen:
http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Phoenix-Eye-Fist-Kung-Fu/dp/0804831785
Pictures of wider, lower stances, large arm motions and attacks, etc.
Interesting for sure…
I found this:
http://rumsoakedfist.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10528
Drifting those are good questions , I can only pass on the history as GM told me.
Leow Fa Shi Ko was a Buddhist nun and martial expert at a ‘Fujien Shaolin Temple’ , and was rumoured to be the sister of the founder of Hong Jia Quan. She eventually left and lived in a cave in Gwandong called ‘White Crane Cave’…from which we can guess that maybe she excelled in Bai Her Quan. She then taught two orphaned sisters whose parents had been killed by bandits - Chu Meow Eng and Chu Meow Luan. These sisters learned her Shaolin art and herbal medicine and further developed the system by blending in the tactics of monkey, snake, mantis, tiger and other creatures - the central theme of the art being use of the phoenix eye fist delivered in a lighting fast and deceptive manner where the exponent is constantly changing height, position and angle of delivery.
Chu Ka = Chu family Shaolin in honour of the two sisters.
The art was then passed down through three more generations to the present day Grandmaster Cheong Cheng Leong.
Now, you can see from the history that the system may have links to southern Mantis, southern Tiger or southern Crane arts - and being very familiar with those systems I can say that there are many similarities, as there are indeed with Bak Mei, Dragon Fist and even Hong Jia Quan (watching a demo of the various skills one will be thinking ‘ahaa Chow Gar Mantis!’ and then ‘Oh Trembling Crane!’ and ‘Ahhh Bak Mei…’)
. It would take a lengthy writing to list the details, but just to note one is the Bow Drawing Hands exercise (the first Shou Fa basic drill shown by Xiong in one of these films) which you can find variations of in many of the southern arts and trains the distinct relaxed storing to sudden sharp contraction type force . But what is pretty unique to Chu Ka is it’s way of delivering the phoneix eye fist, different to the other systems.
Chu Gar Gao ()
Chuka = Chu Gar Gao
Chu Gar Mantis = Chu Gar Gao
Chow Gar Mantis = Chu Gar Gao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_4HFXXCt8M&NR=1
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i found this: the history of chu gar gao ()
http://www.hfy108.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2846
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Are these wu shu forms?
These are Forms from the Chuka Southern Shaolin Phoenix Eye Fist System . I think there just basic forms .