Yeah will have a beer sometime. When you curzzin on the open road and see a Harley in your rear mirror. HEY that’s probably me - The Wild Man.
Yeah you’re right about those arm swinging Southerners. A friend of mine practiced Hung Gar and kept swing his arms like a mad chimpanzee until he was all puffed out! Any way to cut a long story short - he is now an excellent free style swimmer and a great swimming coach.
Maybe Hung Gar was developed for swimming but someone had mistaken it for KF. Damn I’m smart!!
You guys should see the Southern hands of Gor Chor. Very small, direct, effective, and soft. Combinations of Crane, Monkey, Tiger, and Tai Chor. Our 1st 4 sets are short, direct, and to the point.
It is better to have not fought at all, than to have won a thousand battles.- Chee Kim Thong
VIM: I’m in texas too- Austin.
When u say, “the land of cotton”, do you mean Lubbock?
PLEASE don’t remind me that I gotta go back there in a few months. ;_;
Riot
Do you need any help on your ranch? I never worked on a ranch, “but I punched a few cows”! Or maybe it was I dated a few Cows? I dont remeber, but anyway; I always wanted to live in Texas. You no what they say about Texas? He He He
hmmm…doesn’t this topic seem a little childish to anyone? Anyway, here’s my little bit on the northern vs southern…
Northern styles teach you to move fast, jump high and kick people hard in the head… All good and well.
Southern styles, teach you to stand still, watch for openings, Grab the nutts and poke the eyes…
Which is better? Personally I think poking someones eyes out and grabbing their nutts from a firm stance is a lot easier than jumping all over the place hoping for a hit.
I know, maybe this would be a better post… My sifu once told me this story…
There was once a northern stylist, who’s kicks were as fast as lighting and just as powerfull. There was also a southern stylist at the time, and he had enough power in his arms to crush stones with his bare hands. Both were sure that their kung fu was the greatest in the world, so a challenge was issued.
The two stood at the foot of some moutain somewhere… the fight started, southern stylist grabs the northern stylist by the head, crushing his skull before the northern stylist even saw it comming, before dying, the northern stylists asks for the sothern stylist to let go… He does. And both masters drop to their deaths. (as soon as southern stylist let go, the northern styles kicked him in the chest piecing his heart)… Both masters died at the hands of the other.
So what does this rather stupid little story tell us? …
Hi, I practice Southern Gung-Fu and I read some of the post above…Some are very far off and some are…well…I would just like to share with you all a few of my schools theories about all of Gung-Fu.
Eight Skills of Gung-Fu
1)Swing fist as fast as meterors
2)Move the eyes as quick as lightning
3)Twist the waist as if a snake
4) Set your feet on the ground as if fastened by strong glue.
5) Be full of energy
6) Be calm and patient
7)Use your strength naturally
8) Achieve your Gung-Fu successfully.
3 Laws of Concentration
Eyes
Mind
Body posture.
there are many more I could share with you all if you like. But my point is that there is no one better art the the other (Northern/Southern) Its the spirit within the practioner the makes the style great.
I just like to say that i do need help on my ranche from time to time. it gets quite hectic and i like to spend some time cruzzin the open road on my Harley.
In terms of KF, Northern is definately better. How many time must i say this, Northern KF has VERY FEW high kicks. (sigh)
I remember what me aunt Flo always say. Every one keeps rushing about, rushing, rushing rushing. Got to do his job, got to do that job. You know what, she makes the best pies in town. Anyway I’ll be cruzzin to Vagas to live it up this weekend. Who knows I might make my second million and donate it to the local church building fund. I’m a wild man and the bad lands are my home.
almost all of you seem to have misconceptions about Northern Shaolin.
first off, i know only 2 jumping kicks. in application, they are not kicks.
the highest targets we will kick at are the hips and groin.
if your Sifu has you jumping and leaping around like a ballerina, then you are learning ballet.
as for N vs S, i can only speculate. a
sh!tty fighter of any style will lose to a better trained opponent.
Iron, tell me of your two kicks…Is one the butterfly?? How about jumping side thrust?? Ohhh I know Tornado kick…oops it can’t be that one…that targets the head area…hummm…My school teaches both Northern and Southern and I take Southern and the kicks I have learned so far are from both systems. They include Dragons Tail Kick, Butterfly Kick, Inside/Outside Cresents, Side Thrust, Round House, Hook Kick, Tornado Kick, jumping side kick, and jumping siccors Kick. Now I am a Southern Stylist …Tell which of these kicks are considered Northern or considered Southern?
I don’t studie to fight. I studie to studie. Why is everyone so caught up in this? Where’s your humility? Be a good student and when the fight has to happend you’ll be alright. No matter what style you studie. If your rigid you’ll break, in your fighting and your thoughts.
Snake Fist
You sure have fancyful names for kicks. Are you sure you’re learning real kung fu and not wushu. Those jumping and spinning around acrobatics are not much use for fighting.
I take Sourhten Kung-Fu, Hung Gar, Sil lum Pia, At my school there is also Wu-Shu I am on the demo Team so we practice many Northern jumps and things because it is a better stretch and warm up. I am studying Snake Fist, Tiger Crane Boxing, and bits of the other animal styles, but mostly Snake Fist. As for my last post the kicks i mentioned were not all from a Northern style and they are not all done in the air. As for the fancy name…hay I didn’t name them…thats CMA.
and why didnt Iron answer the question about the different kicks??? Is it possible that your not really sure??? Anyway…Peace
the 2 kicks i am referring to are a jumping forward kick and a jumping crescent. the nomenclature is not very important to me. it’s the kung fu that matters.
reviewing the posts, it occured to me that maybe i do not study ‘typical’ Northern kung fu. the kung fu i learn is Iron Palm based and heavy on the shuai jiao. shuai jiao is not well known for it’s flashy kicks.
[This message has been edited by IronBuddha (edited 04-17-2000).]
