http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym3xzCbAsio
Is it kung fu?
Comments anyone?
I vote No.
That look kind of “Kenpoish” to me. Maybe she was nervous but she didn’t do her form very well.
looks like krotty.
That just makes me sad. Poor girl.
I didnt see and Mantis hand or foot work at all.
http://www.slate.com/id/55898/
http://www.judysbook.com/members/34974/posts/2006/3/280770/
They were the only place that had open sparring when I first moved to Seattle.
Of course, they don’t allow men. Not sure that’s so smart considering then the women won’t know the strength required to fend off a real male attacker, but whatever. 
Not just Karate, made up Karate. Even Karate while holding a fan. :eek:
Supposedly it’s Kajukenbo … not krotty.
Looks to me like some kind of Chinese style, but done with all the character and style of karate, i.e. some Karate student learned some Kung Fu forms but not the essential character that went with it and hung up a shingle.
ka-ju-ken-bo
karate-judo-kenpo-boxing.
Or something like that. A mix of things from Hawaii.
Well at least we all know what we’re missing, I guess. It doesn’t look like they have a clue as to what would be required to pull their techniques off on a resisting attacker.
http://www.7starwomenskungfu.org/instructors.htm Its a japanese system trying to pass itself off as kung fu, or at least they say they do kung fu there. its not a seven star mantis school.
Hey if it empowers women and has a good training regimen then more power to them. of course they should really call it something other than seven star. i thought i was going to see some mantis work in there. NOT. TWS
[QUOTE=The Willow Sword;702499]http://www.7starwomenskungfu.org/instructors.htm Its a japanese system trying to pass itself off as kung fu, or at least they say they do kung fu there. its not a seven star mantis school.
Hey if it empowers women and has a good training regimen then more power to them. of course they should really call it something other than seven star. i thought i was going to see some mantis work in there. NOT. TWS[/QUOTE]
Well it seemed pretty much like if they only trained with women they’d be clueless as to how to apply it against a resisting attacker.
And if the demo is any indication, she might as well be taking sewing for all the self defense she’s not learning. But there’s actually a lot of that around Seattle, non-martial martial arts.
OMFG…i pretty much agree with neilyholt.
they are just as bad as any, ANY, school that isolates itself. they are not introducing enough variables to make their training valid.
empowerment of women is a good thing to a point. beyond making them comfortable enough to even think about training hard…they need to train against the hardest opponent they are likely to encounter…and it’s not likely that’s going to be another woman.
it is definately NOT a karate school passing itself off as Kung-Fu. Karate isn’t that bad. They say they are from Kajukenbo, but I have seen much better stuff from them. These people are like bad kenpo-probably some beginner in a McDojo who got to green belt decided they were a master and created their own system. It is * udder nonesense.
*udder is intentionally misspelled:p
Hmmm, a school just for women, I would hate to train just with women. Not just for whole knowing what its like to fend off an attacker, but just generally .I realise that it can be quite intimidating going up against men (as I discussed in the Ive Lost my Bottle thread!) but I cant really see the advantages of just training with women. If there was a club that admitted men only we would probably go mad about it, unless they do admit men of course!
Not sure what style its supposed to be, she doesn’t look as though she is putting that much into it, or that the form doesn’t require much energy to be put into it either.
Nope, not a women only club. Bad idea.
I personally don’t see any Kung Fu in the Demo. The fan looks like a mix of Karate, and some sort of dance, but it’s not Kung Fu at all.
Calling themselves Kung Fu is very misleading, and adding in the “Seven Star” part is down right deceptive in my view. It’s like they are trying to pass themselves off as a Seven Star Preying Mantis school at first glance, when inside they don’t do anything remotely Kung Fu, let alone teach anything resembling real Seven Star mantis. They use the name because authentic Seven Star mantis is very well known, and has good marketing appeal.
I am thinking of E-mailing them, and letting them see this thread to see what it is they have to say for themselves.
meh. who cares, it beats a quilting bee club. lol
give the people what they want. 
It’s not supposed to be mantis. I named it sevenstar after the name I use online. It’s a blend of things I’ve trained over the years, and at advanced levels, there is grappling and muay thai included. Stop hating on my school, guys.
[QUOTE=SevenStar;702658]It’s not supposed to be mantis. I named it sevenstar after the name I use online. It’s a blend of things I’ve trained over the years, and at advanced levels, there is grappling and muay thai included. Stop hating on my school, guys.[/QUOTE]
??? This is your school? Is that a joke?