Name of this form?

Wai Jia: The Kung Fu Forum Northern Praying Mantis
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[QUOTE=Tainan Mantis;1145282]I Alex,
I can answer this question as I heard my shifu explain this myself.
He told us that this particular bow was a part of the Southern Chinese tradition and that no teacher of his that taught mantis had this bow.

But, because of the movies and tv shows, and us living in Taiwan-a southern part of China- he felt that in doing performances if we left off this bow then people might think us impolite.

So, the point was to preserve some sort of humbleness as recognized by the Taiwanese.
In later year, when traveling and performing in places other than Taiwan this bow stayed with us.

As a side note, his first style was Southern kung fu, so it must be a tradition he has had since very young.[/QUOTE]

I know the first style of your sifu was Southern kung ,that’s why his mantis is also full of southern favour.Yes most of the mantis practicioners are now opening like this.

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To give more on the subject, I actually know Master Lap Wah Ng. The gentleman doing the form:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahxhozz7d5M

He’s a very nice guy, and teaches several styles in his school. I’ll try to enlist them:

  • Unified Praying Mantis
  • Choy Lee Fut
  • Taiji Quan Yang Style

He learned other styles also:

  • Wing Tsun
  • Eagle Claw
  • Shuai Na Dao

His praying mantis background, according with his website:
(warning: in portuguese)

http://nglapwah.webnode.com.br/mestre-wah-historia/

He learned mantis from Master Li Hon Shui (taiji tanglang men) between 1983 to 1985. The name Unified Praying Mantis must come from the will to use his own system of teaching.

I hope this helped a little bit.

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[QUOTE=MeiHuaBR;1153198]To give more on the subject, I actually know Master Lap Wah Ng. The gentleman doing the form:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahxhozz7d5M

He learned mantis from Master Li Hon Shui (taiji tanglang men) between 1983 to 1985. The name Unified Praying Mantis must come from the will to use his own system of teaching.

Li Hon Shui is a student of my CK Taichi mantis classmate,but the bung bo here is from 7 stars mantis.Do you know who is his 7 stars mantis sifu?

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Hello Master Tse,

Sorry if I misunderstood you, but Bung Bo? The taolu in this videos isn’t 18 elders?

Anyway, this taolu is very similar with one that Li Wing Kay teaches in Brasil. But there’s a lot of diferences. I couldn’t find a good example, but here’s one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRMZsfvtkOI

Maybe he learned the form from Li Wing Kay during the time he studied Eagle Claw and changed some movements to fit his new view. But that is just a guess.

Best wishes.