BSRoy The story I herd was that when preying mantis was developed it borrowed the monkey foot work since it’s fast and nimble.
That’s why at first glance preing mantis (northern Mantis) resembles monkey style.
As far as the section of the form that I do, that is actualy a southern monkey set I believe I’ve sen the same form being done by one of Sifu Yim Tai’s student since my Sifu CTS knew Hung Fut it could be part of the HF system but don’t quote me on that.
Of course all the forms my Sifu taught me had his endelable imprint, so there are some slight variations.
I also learned Dai sing Pek gwa wich doesn’t have any monkey screams or any type of acrobatics with the exeption of an areal and some dive rolls.
The teck. in dai sing have a lot of long arm teck hense the name Peck gwa, it’s got finger strikes wrist strikes lots of visible elbow strikes and clawing and riping.
As far as Ape style all I have seen is tong bei wich doesn’t resemble monkey and Lama wich has lmostly long arms tech. and doesn’t resemble monkey style
The version of Dai sing that I learned from CTS does a lot of in close fighting and focuses on grabing joint locking throwing and ground fighting.
In the open karate circute you will see many made up versions of monkey what usualy gives a made up monkey set is monkey screaming lots of gymnastics and no visible fighting tech.
Any one can act like a monkey so that is why you see so mutch of it in open torneys. I hope this info helps peace.
sifu stevin chin’s monkey is pretty legit and good. he’s very good and has done a lot of good stuff in the past. wouldnt expect anyhting less form his students.
Ahh Steve Chin. He is a former student of SiGong Chan. They are not on talking terms. Sigong Chan told me that he only taught him Lost monkey and he didn’t complete training for it. However, I spoke to Steve Chin about 7 years ago and he claimed that Sigong taught him all of the monkey style. Steve Chin broke some promises to Sigong Chan and they don’t talk.
Steve Chin learned another monkey style. I forgot what it was.
he learned monkey from leung lee fu as far as i know, thats all i know. i never heard of your sigong ever mentioned. then again i never heard it form steven chin’s mouth himself. just from other source’s who knew steven chin and leung lee fu.
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