This first one is a test.
It is straight sword drill.
If everyone can view this I’ll post some PM drills
Works great…
Opened right up. Looks great
YingCHing
didn’t work for me at all.
I’m using Internet Explorer 6.0
Hi.
Opened perfectly on both NS6 & IE6 on Win 2000 PRO.
Looks good.
Cheers.
Ye Gor.
You got the latest quicktime plugin installed??
Cheers.
Worked fine for me:
I’m using IE 5.1 on a Mac…
opened up rite good…
it’s around 1.2 mb so it can take time…
clips good it looks like they r doing some sort of sword pushhands 
-TkdWarrior-
Looks Great!
Looks great and runs well.
hand techniques
These are from my video. They include 3 hand drills mixed in together.
Each of the drills includes three punch and defense.
Drills…
-outer hanging hand
-inner add punch
-rolling and leaking
It is 1.7MB
Hey I can’t see thing and I don’t know what to download at the site it send me to can anyone help?
Tainan, that movie clip requires QuickTime player. Not everybody running Windows on their PC has that. But everybody with windows has an Mpeg player. If you can convert it from QuickTime to Mpeg format, I think both Windows and Mac people will be able to see it.
Works for me too.
Re: hand techniques
Originally posted by Tainan Mantis
[B]These are from my video. They include 3 hand drills mixed in together.
Each of the drills includes three punch and defense.
Drills…
-outer hanging hand
-inner add punch
-rolling and leaking
It is 1.7MB
hand drills [/B]
Both the Straight Sword Drill and the Hand Drills are super-fantastic. I mostly learned one-man forms, but I would L-O-V-E to learn this drill! This is how a PM hand-drill is supposed to be practiced/learned/taught/utilized/executed (pick one). And the 2 brothers throwing hands in the drill are fantastic! Much respect from MantisBen to these two.
Thanks for the Post Tainan!!!
mantisben
If you like the video clips, I would suggest getting in contact with Tainan about getting a copy of his video… There is some great stuff on there…
YingChing
The Westerner
Mantisben,
Thanks for the encouragement. The Western guy is me. The others are my students.
The girl, Robyn, in the sword clip has just returned to her MA school in Canada.
That is a drill from the final road of Coiling Dragon Jian.
In that road the swords must stick from start to finish.
In the other roads the swords stick and also come apart.
Like the open hand drills I teach the student how to go from one move to another in a non prearranged method.
But first they must practice drills like Pierce the Ear.
The following drill is directly from 8 Step Continuous Punches an old Shaolin Eagle Claw form. It is very similar to 7* PM drills. But in this instance it is only one technique of three punches over and over.
Half way through we go slower, that is slo-mo, not us getting tired out.
Each of these drills are done 100 times a day until the student can jump from one to another at will.
Then some new drill is added.
Many thanks to Yingching for helping me do this video posting.
pierce the ear
Wei Qua Shou Epiphany…
I wrote some of my thoughts about that clip on my forum before. I would like to share it here and also further some more thought on it.
I have recently received my copy of Kevin’s video “BaBu Lienhuanquan”, which I am going to do a more indepth review. After watching it over and over again, something finally clicks. In the middle of the video, there is a section on a drill call the “Wai Qua Shou” (outer hanging hand/punch), which I learned form Kevin while he was visiting. This short drill consist mainly of 3 Mantis hands - a round House punch, a pu chui (actually looks more like a tong chui) and a hanging hand punch (Qua Da). This drill is kind of like a hanger which you may “hang” or connect other techniques onto it (ie inner pu chui). Anyway, my point is that the sheer speed of the drill is amazing as demonstrated by Kevin and his student. This is partly the result of the design of the drill which has included a few of the PM’s 8 hard principles. While I was revisiting Sifu Carl Albright’s Webpage about the 8 Hards of PM, I came to a realization all of a suddent. A drill that is based on some of the 8 Hard when done in proper speed, which essentially is power, is in fact looking like 2 giant praying mantis flexing their talons at each other! Slashing and Chopping with their claws in remarkable speed and making a stance (see also Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon)! So I come to think that 8 Hard or at least some of them in fact epitomize the fast flexing of the Mantis talons during their very own ultimate fighting championish and was observed plus was noted by Josi Wang Lang. lol.. ;p
BTW, if you haven’t got the video, you might really want to go for it. And if you ask me, I’d say it’s a must buy.
As Tainan Mantis explained to me and after months of hard work I have come to a better understanding of how this drill works especially how it connects with what I do. Basically it is a shadow drill involving 3 punches:
Round House countered by hanging punch
Mid-line left Cross countered by Round house
hanging punch countered by Mid-line left cross
It is kind of a paper-rock-siccors game. 
But Seriously this is similar in concept to XingYi’s 5 Elements 2 men drill. Except that XYQ’s drill has footwork while the TLQ Wei Qua Shou don’t begin with footwork.
Although it looks continuous and effortless in appearance, the truth is this is one of the most devasting drill. Without a good conditioned forearm, especially the right arm, one will not last through the first or second mid-line left cross (right feng shou in chopping motion and a hard and fast left Tong Chui).
After you are fluid with this, it is possible to add kicks (as in the video), Chin Na, takedown, etc… and other moves in whatever forms that you practice. In my case, there are a few Sau Fa moves from the 64 Taizu Duanda that we can add to it as changes or finishes. It is a lot of fun providing you get yourself a lot of Dit Da Jow first.
Mantis108
I have windows xp and loaded quicktime and it works great, I can move the button and place the players in any position I want etc. great.
I like pierce the ear. I see parts from form that I wondered where they apply (the guy on the right with the double fisted punch). Good shots to the solar plexis too. Really nice clips, color, clothing, background.
nice job.
partner set
This is the part of the form before the pierce the ear technique8 Step Continuous Punches partner version
The whip
This is a weapon like a short stick, but usually made of metal.
The version we are using is rattan.
It is different from other short stick techniques in that the mechanics of motion are designed for a heavy weapon. This stick can be as long as a walking stick.