Hi northernshaolin.
Recently one of our older students from Chan Kowk Wai has travelled a city 250 km away from Henan Shaolin Temple. He could find a teacher who says he practices a style called “SHaolin Ten forms”.
The style has almost the same names in the forms, and it is said to have a lineage coming from Shaolin Temple until Yim Kai Yun (KYCH Teacher, I dont remember the mandarin name) and in the lineage chart, Ku Yu Cheung is included.
I have only this info, but soon we will have more as my elder brother who lives in Beijing is commited by mi teacher to make more contacts with this people.
As soon as I have more info I will post it to you. No doubt it is a very good news! May be in the near future we the Bak Siu Lam family will be able to make some comparisons between our present version and the before-kuyucheung version.
Kindest regards
horacio
I am very sorry but what I ve told is about everything I know.
At the moment my elder is in Brasil but soon he will return his home (Beijing) so he will continue his research, but remember, he is a worker, a family man, he is not someone comitted to only do research
I have been told that they do only the ten forms, and that they eventually lost the iron palm and small golden bell training. They have been pushed by Shaolin Temple authorities to change their program but they have managed to keep training the ten forms.
By the way, I dont recognize the names of the forms you mention (talking about the Bak Siu lam tradition). Some names seem to have slight changes (lohan…etc).
I will keep you informed, this is too fresh…we all will have to be patient.
Kindest regards
horacio
[QUOTE=kai men;256861]I am very sorry but what I ve told is about everything I know.
At the moment my elder is in Brasil but soon he will return his home (Beijing) so he will continue his research, but remember, he is a worker, a family man, he is not someone comitted to only do research
I have been told that they do only the ten forms, and that they eventually lost the iron palm and small golden bell training. They have been pushed by Shaolin Temple authorities to change their program but they have managed to keep training the ten forms.
By the way, I dont recognize the names of the forms you mention (talking about the Bak Siu lam tradition). Some names seem to have slight changes (lohan…etc).
I will keep you informed, this is too fresh…we all will have to be patient.
Kindest regards
horacio[/QUOTE]
I must commend you again on your fine research skills, Sal. Nice to see some of us still have a little long term memory after so many blows to the noggin.
What has happened so far kai men? I had to edit my offer of a small donation for research when I realized that the Brazil branch of BSL was making connections. If there is still a need for funding I will stand by my oririnal offer of $100.00 to facillitate continued research. And no, I am not of BSL lineage.
Re: Breakdancing
There are two primary sources that influenced Breakdancing. One is Capoeria; the other gymnastics. Breakdancing looked much more combative than it does today. It had the punches, kicks, elbows, etc. Perhaps some of those combative movements were influenced by the movies. If you did a comparative between the sophistication of breakdancing back in the seventies and the available kung fu movies at the time, it would be difficult to find strong series of connectives. On the other hand, one would find very strong connectives with Capoeria and gymnastics.
