Because only the exponents of the style would know what it meant. It was used primarly for secrecy of the style.
Why can’t you just say "outside block with a simultaneous straight punch? Although longer, its
It wasn’t designed to be flashy or cool…in times when it was trained and a lot of masters were illiterate this was a way of conveying the moves without having to write down the names one by one… plus you would have a list that wouldn’t make too much sense. Left punch Right punch but with a complicated move like ‘tiger comes down the mountain’ how do you follow a name on a list, ever tried to learn from a book without learing from a master aswell… Also it helps you to take on the personality of the animal etc, essential in animal styles…it dosn’t relate to single moves either. In chow gar tong long the first eight cycles of moves found in nearly all the forms is called the ‘Mantis washing it’s wings’. These help to picture the moves correctly as well as describe the moves. Hope that helps but hey I’m no expert so…
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That technique name translates:
Katate-tor-ryote mochi (grab the guys wrist with both hands)
Kokyu (breath) nage (throw)
Ude Mawashi (something like..join with the guy and spin him)
I passed that exam, btw. Now I can take the advanced classes and they make me wear the fancy pants.
Congratulations, Fancy Pants :-). Hakam ah don’t get to wear fancy pants?.
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Very some such, perhaps might have been, likely say some, some not.
Actually, I beg to differ, I think “snake spits tongue” is a lot shorter and easier to remember than “block or grab down with leading hand and eye jab with rear hand.” I mean, especially when you have to chain a lot of moves together into one long form, it becomes much easier if you name each move with a visual metaphor.
And what if the movement can be used for a number of techniques? The technical name on a lot of tai chi moves would be a page long!
talking of this my sifu was showing me a technique that i believe was called snake shoots out of the cave , and he was trying to tell me the name of the technique but his englsh is non existant,
so he started doing these funny sounds hissing and i was like , snake hes like ok , then he points to the fire place, and kind of climbs half way into it and jumps out with this snake like hand, and i was like the technique is called snake shoots out of the fireplace ???
he just looked at me and went :rolleyes:
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