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… All the Shaolin Do stuff…[/QUOTE]
Kent, simply do a search on the board about shaolin do on this board and make a decision to go check them out for yourself, there are a few schools around the Denver area.
Welcome to Denver! Some info: There are two White Dragon (Pai Lum) schools in the immediate area, both under Long shr Galiano. One is in Arvada, the other in Thornton. Cost is $20 per week. And yes, both are indeed affiliated with the Ft. Collins school as well as the one in Longmont.
The times I was in the area and watched a little of the classes @ Becca’s school, it looked pretty good, but a bit different from what you’ve learned so far style wise I’d assume.
Well you’ve certainly got my curiousity up. I’ve done a lot of searching on this board before posting, but yet I still have no idea what you’re alluding to.
Not alluding to much as far as scandle type stuff. Just some observations, haven’t really posted much in the last year or two, as I discontinued my training about a year and a half ago now.
I studied Northern Long Fist (a little of a conglomeration of a few different Northern Forms) for a few years with Christophe (his school is off of Mississippi between Fed. and Bway).
He’s one hell of a forms teacher, and has produced some very good fighters (I didn’t do much on that end with him). Christophe’s main thing is Yang taiji, but is certainly a very compitent teacher in regards to the NLF. MK has seen me do my forms that I learned from Christophe and is fairly respected around these parts (for what I don’t know
) for his opinion.
I learned a bunch of long fist forms, tan tui, a few northern staff forms, a few northern broadsword forms, etc… we did a decent amount of two person drills as well.
Starchaser107’s (who also hasn’t been around these parts in a while) wife studied a little hung gar about 3 or 4 years ago from the school on or near Federal and I seem to remember him thinking it was pretty good. Shoot him a PM and see if he responds.
There is the Wah Lum school, but you said you’ve already visited that school so I won’t go into that.
Internal wise, The Taoist people as described by one of my older kung fu and taiji sisters after seeing some of their taiji, “They do old people taiji.”
I’ve heard a few things about the Tang Shou Tao people, but don’t know too much about what their doing so I’ll refrain from comment. I’d recommend going to their school and checking them out. Go check out Christophe’s school too, there are a few different things going on their taiji wise now from what I understand. There is a good bagua guy I saw, no idea if he’s still teaching or not. I’m going down to Denver sometime this week and will find out who is still teaching and where when I’m down there and will comment more.
I doubt you’ll want to drive up to Boulder, I’ll skip that stuff too.
I agree with ~ 90% of Plumdragon’s evaluations of the schools he talks about but mostly from comments from others (which have been respectable sources).