[QUOTE=boh;1170284]As someone who has been doing 5 Ancestors & White Crane for quite a number of years, this is definitely not WCrane![/QUOTE]
I normally care less about critics from others, especially non-white crane practitioner, unless they get a point. however, since you claim yourself a white crane practitioner, I feel like to respond.
First off, may I ask you what type of white crane do you practice?? long arm crane or short arm crane?? or to be more specific, flying crane,crying crane,sleeping crane, feeding crane, fujian traditional white crane or wing chun??? From your questioning, I can pretty much guess what you do is somewhat related to short arm crane, which is different from long arm crane( what we do). If you see enough of white crane styles, you must know that in long arm crane fajin is generated not too much from the first two joints(wrist and elbow) but mostly from the third joint(shoulder) and body.
Each group is looking at the crane in a different way, and the way the crane principles(Fng Qniáng’s teacing)are expressed can be entirely different. And yet they are both Crane, just in their own ways.
For example, what does mean to you in white crane?? Do you think the fajin in white crane has gotta be inch puch or short rang power generation??? The inch punch did not exist until WhiteJie() has discovered it cuz Fng Qniáng couldn’t see it in the text. After that, the inch punch was further perfected by Grand master Fong, the founder of Shaking Crane, who discovered the Vibrational fajin in the text. Therefore, it all really depends on how one interprets those principles.
The posture is totally off, and I doubt if he could generate any sort of power, from the poor structure that Sanjuro observes… (I just watched for 30s and had this urge to puke…)
What we do is pretty internal. If you really can’t see it from the video, the best way is to experience it.
Its probably some ‘self-invented art’, the practitioners are Chinese (from the other vid, the conversation was Mandarin). Probably some mainlander Chinese trying to dupe the ‘not so smart Westerners’ into believing this is great stuff, not knowing the hard core audience here! Doubt if they would have put up that vid to the Chinese audience, I’m sure the White Crane community would have reacted…
Dragon Crane originated from Yong Chun country in Fujian China and Grand master Tong learned this form from a master called Chen Chun () over there.
If I don’t wanna put up the vid to the Chinese audience, then why woud I write the description in Chinese on youtube??
If they are anybody of significance, they’ll be at the Nan ShouLin International Martial Arts Conference, held yearly in Quanzhou, Fujian, which I have attended for the last few years. Didn’t see them there at all.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=311134342294479&set=a.223480664393181.53209.144975125577069&type=3&theater
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=311134338961146&set=a.223480664393181.53209.144975125577069&type=3&theater
We will attend the Nan ShouLin International Martial Arts Conference if we have the chance in the future. Hope to meet you there.
When I showed this to another experienced WCrane practitioner he just burst out laughing!
That depends on what type of white crane he does.
if it had been labeled as any other style/type of art, I wouldn’t have bothered to reply. But this is an insult to White Crane!
Maybe just an insult to your “white crane”
jus’ messin’ wit ya!