you can always post questions in the Northern mantis board, it reffers to alot of northern styles not just mantis, I am sure many will be happy to discuss over there. come give it a shot.
The styles seem obscure in the west but living in china these represent a huge amount of wushu. There are many i didn’t add. Actually they are all complete systems, although only one or two sets would have filtered into common knowledge.
Zha, Hua, Pao, HOng are often trained together, but are distinct styles. Although you can call them all chang quan. Hong quan has many many variations (hong shui de hong, hong si de hong, etc). Pao quan does also. I only listed it once but it covers a good 20-30 styles. There are also several styles called hua quan. All can be found uniquely, but all are often trained together. (even together they have like 10-20 forms each).
Eagle claw has many, shaolin ying zhao, Ying zhao fan zi, Ying men, southern eagle claw ETc etc.
@Gene,
Yeah, why is there no contempory wushu forum! That could fit into the new styles forum’. Ok I understand its too much work, but what about converting one of the lesser used forums, such as ‘related arts’ or something.
@Earth Dragon and Masterkiller
Yeah, I like the mantis and shaolin forums as they usually have serious discussions (although couldn’t we move the USSD and Shaolin DO threads since they clearly have nothing to do with real northern shaolin?). I suppose these styles could be posted there… but, well, ok.
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