I would love to know how you think what I typed is “unhealthy” and should be stopped immediately.
I have no issues with peoples races, cultures, etc. And in fact I was actually pointing out a very relevant point about Malaysia and it’s diverse blend of people and culure.
Afterall, I’m English with Italian heritage, is it wrong for me to call myself English!
In my post I closed by saying ‘what does it matter’ about Fu Leung’s nationality/heritage/race.
Seems to me, that if anyone has an issue about peoples race and cultural identity…then it’s coming from you… no one else.
Lets just agree to draw a line under this situation and start a fresh!
It would seem that there isn’t very much information on Southern Eagle Claw. Have to confess that I’ve only heard of it and if I remember back to my teenage days. There were some shaw brothers films that made a distiction between Northern and Southern Eagle Claw.
Whether the style actually exists on it’s own, I haven’t got a clue.
But as some of the others on this board have mentioned, it may well exist as a sub-set/form of one or more styles.
Ah yes, SB is alway an accurate re-creation of history. Do you also watch SB to learn the forms in Southern Eagle. So who won, North or South.
We know that Northern Eagle beat the Snake, but was defeated by something else. Perhaps then the North Vs South Eagle was a prequal - if that’s the case North would have had to have beaten the South.
yah, herein concludes the superiority of Northern Kung Fu.
Maybe the northern styles are only superior where there is hard ground, as they’d have a pretty hard job jumping around rice paddy fields, river banks and marsh land like it was in the South.
Hence the old syaing “Northern Legs, Southern Hands!” though this qoute is a bit of a misnomer really! ;o)
But hey, when I was a teenager, I absolutely loved SB films.
If I cast my mind back I think the film was Invincible Armour, where there was 2 eagle claw stylists Northern and Southern,cant remember now, such a long time ago!
Yes, if you’re buried in waist deep in water, my personal preference would be crocodile kungfu (given that it’s fresh water in rise paddies).
It’s no wonder why the foot work of southern kung fu is so bad (on dry land). A bit like a Sea Lion out of water - can hardly move or a beached whale. But in the water it can move gracefully.
The question is why you are training southern kung fu in a dojo that is dry. Souldn’t you flood the hall to resemble rice paddy conditions?
I like SB too, great documentries on southern kung fu.
“Ah yes, SB is alway an accurate re-creation of history. Do you also watch SB to learn the forms in Southern Eagle. So who won, North or South. We know that Northern Eagle beat the Snake, but was defeated by something else. Perhaps then the North Vs South Eagle was a prequal - if that’s the case North would have had to have beaten the South. yah, herein concludes the superiority of Northern Kung Fu.”
Wow, impressive logic. :rolleyes:
On the topic I remember something about southern eagle and Tai Yim, I can’t recall it at the moment.
Good to hear from you again or shall I say - thanks for the feed, I needed that.
Sorry to disrupt your train of thought, but not to worry, the historians of SB are sure to fill in any gaps re. southern eagle and Tai Yim that you may have.
do you want to explain your civil war equaling north better than south - I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. I just doesn’t make any sense. Northern is better than southern kung fu, there for union beats confederacy?! Last time I checked, anything southern is better…(heehee…feed the troll some more and hijack the thread)(when will I ever learn?)
