Hmmmm,
Is this really supposed to be a form or did someone make this up for a karate tournament?
Monkey Kung Fu… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3oekhwrenY&search=monkey%20kung%20fu
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jeff:)
Oh lord…
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This is what happens when you do crack.:eek:
That poor kid wasted a great deal of his time…
yeah, it took him longer to get the judges to move their chairs than it did for him to do his…ahem…form (tourney tip: never make the judges move…yeesh)
ok so you guys are trashing the form
ok so tell me why this is not a monkey form or not a “true” monkey style of kung fu?
From the MONKEY practitioners here. i mean i liked it actually. it didnt really have much combat applications,in my opinion, but it was fun to watch.
TWS
The form it self is just a bad version of a wushu monkey, if it was done the right way it may have looked good.
I have nothing against choreagraphing a set but he wasn’t fluid the money yells were over the top and he did a bad impersonation of a monkey not to mention I couldn’t see anything that could be applied in fighting.
I actually liked the form, too. I’ve been putting a lot of time into monkey these days, and it’s nice to see others’ forms. I don’t like the apparent lack of combat applications, but I thought his spirit, movement and technique was pretty good. He seemed to move like a monkey more than fight like a monkey.
I’m no expert, but I liked the form. If anyone wants to give specifics on what he did right/wrong, I for one would appreciate it…that way I could try not to make the same mistakes!
How exactly is there a “right way” to dance around and act like a monkey?
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Sorry, but no fighting means no point and no use. There was no “technique” to speak of.
(this just shows how easy it is to impress the uninformed with a little exotic prancing around)
For one thing in the begining of the form notice that he’s not even chambering his fist correctly, and the choreagraphy here leaves the viewer bewilderd. he displays some gymnastics witch is a risky thing to do. At competitions if you decide to do gymnastics you better look like curt thomas or you will get a bad score.
I’m pretty sure the part where the kid was knuckledragging around the floor making monkey noises was a big no-no.
Maybe he learned it from this guy;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nLgH-f_ql8&mode=related&search=monkey%20kung%20fu
Oh and here’s some more;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkbm-H1w4mE&search=Monkey%20Kung%20Fu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j1cEnnvjAE&search=Monkey%20Kung%20Fu
Either one of those legit?
So, what’s the verdict on the last two above? The SD monkey that I have looks nothing like any of the forms posted in this thread, but looks most like the last one above with “sifu gus.” Maybe I’m putting too much thought into what the guys “might” be doing for applications and digging a little too deep, but I see some potential stuff there. Granted a lot of it would be really tricky, and that to me means ineffective and useless. Of course, I’ll be the first to admit that, while I might have a decent grasp on SD monkey at this point, I haven’t seen much outside of that.
Anyone have more links to stuff that is good monkey? I’d like to see how combat techniques are worked into the monkey system. The SD monkey is chalk full of usefull applications, so I like what I’ve been getting, but it would be nice to see some other stuff for comparison.
Thanks, y’all.
i know there is a relationship between monkey and mantis but i was wondering if anyone knows off the top of their head which came from which. was mantis developed from monkey?
also i know there is an ape style in northern kungfu i have seen some of the techniques from it and it is really good. i have never really seen traditional monkey style applications and i was wondering if they are similar.
I believe monkey uses mantis footwork. It’s been a while since I’ve read up on this stuff.
Its the other way around actuallty. Mantis uses monkey footwork.
I got a film that shows a few old men who are doing kungfu, as well as a lot of wushu stuff, but anyway… There’s one old guy who does monkey. A few years ago, I found a chinese language book about the form that the old man does in this film.
The set with the person named Gus is the one that most closely resembles what is shown in the book and on that film, though not exactly, it’s just closest in flavour.
Heres an old clip from the wong fei hung series..u see a fight between drunkenstyle and monkeyfist…mind u this is from 1969
That’s some really bad choreography.