[QUOTE=SHemmati;1192114]demonstration video: (Shaolin Xiao Luohan quan [by Shi De Yang]) (youku.com)
pictorial demonstration from the accompanying book: http://www.qqgfw.com/KungfuArticleList2.aspx?KungfuArticleID=4665[/QUOTE]
This performance is even stronger than the older series! But it is the same, almost legit, with only a few parts that are different. Some just minor details. This is one set I worked very hard on in great detail a couple years ago when I was told to pick two sets to “specialize” in.
As in the older series, the second posture, “Purple Swallows Pairing in Flight” , is done with a jump into pubu, which you should not do because it is completely useless in this technique and takes away all the power in the movement.
If you can read Chinese, the book explains the correct way to do this movement. You turn your body to the right and lift the hands over your head with your chest up, and raise your right knee high. Then stomp down with the right foot, and simultaneously shoot your left leg out into pubu and quickly pull the hands down and back into the final position.
This should be done blindingly fast. From the first posture, as soon as your hands hit bottom in the cross position they should shoot up as you turn right. Raising the right knee and stomping, shouldn’t be done slowly, with a pause at the top, but just in a split second. Lift and stomp. Then shoot out to the final position in pubu. The palms should be open, as shown here. I think in the older series he did it with fists.
The second movement that is different is turning around after the drunken arhat steps into gongbu and left punch, “Drawing the Bow and Shooting the Arrow” . Again, just turning around straight into gongbu takes away the power in the movement. You should quickly unwind your stance first into mabu with arms crossed, then forcefully pop the hips into gongbu as you punch. This sharp turn in the hips is where the power comes from. You can’t just turn around into gongbu and punch or there’s no power.
Right after this, instead of hopping up and lightly stepping back into xiebu, the right foot should stomp back onto the line the set runs. The rest of the movement is the same. It just needs more power. It’s kind of flowery done that way.
Then following the two pubu switches, coming up into the right leg kick you should “brush off” the legs with both hands. This is a small but important detail left out. First as you come up the right hand brushes off the outside of the right thigh, then the left hand on the left thigh as you lift it for the jump.
Also, on the xiebu with a chop, such as at the beginning and after the chuaitui part, the arm shouldn’t go straight, but maintain a curve so the palm is held parallel to the ground at about waist level.
The rest is pretty much the same overall.
