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Anyone else here apart from me practice shaolin kung fu. Here's a good book: "the art of shaolin kung fu" by Wong Kieuw Kit. Very interesting read. Even if you're not interested in doing martial arts, I recommend that people practice the horse-riding stance, as it lowers the centre of gravity, aiding balance, and also strengthens the legs! |
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hmph! I know drunken hidden-lamah style. i have the scrolls. *strokes nose come get some! |
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Did a little bit about a year and a half ago. I still practice a little. I like the blocks, but I'm unsure how effective the stance would be in a fight. Horse stance is very good training for everything though, best if you do it with a cup of water (traditionally hot tea- ouch!) balanced on each leg. Helps you learn not to let your muscles spasm after a minute or so... Northern Eagle Claw Kung Fu really focuses on this stance- a "normal" student should be able to hold it for over an hour! Very painful, but gives you a lot of control for kicks. |
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don't threaten me punk, or I'll execute a tiger punch on you! :P |
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Diss our martial art and we'll mess you up biotch... you Japanaese martial arts characters always try to start inter-school wars :P |
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Yes, it is very painful after a while :| Sometime, when I'm coming out of it, I have to force my legs back together - it hurts like hell - but hey! it's doing me good! I aim to be able to do the splits too in 3 months. |
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Do you do horse stance "to failure"? Till your legs give way? |
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I try to. Sometimes the pain is just so intense that I'm forced to lever myself out of it -- I've only gone back to my exercises recently after several months away (due to an eating disorder). I've been doing weights and crunches again for 2 months, and the kung fu again for a couple of weeks - so it'll be another month or so before my legs are suitably lithe &tc to start doing sets and patterns |
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only joshing.... i love martial arts and did a style of kung fu when i was younger .. white dragon a martial sport form. i enjoyed it and we certainly did a lot of horse stance stuff. however i got a little tired of it when i realised the teacher was not very good and i was geting older and wiser. then i started reading up on Japanese styles, and old samurai scools and they realy appealed to me plus i didn´t like the sport side of the martial arts much either. Now i do Budo Taijutsu... a modern non competitive martial art based on 9 old japanes schools. no horse stances in this one really (unless you get to do some VERY traditional training in heavy Japanese armour!) |
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I know you were only kidding mate :) Yeah, the stance japanese archers use is quite similair. Canes your leg to, but I imagine it would be particularly hard if you're wearing armour... We were just beaten with bundles of sticks whilst we did it as a form of conditioning. I studied (and intend to return to when I go back to Wales) classical "grey" dragon, my own term for it- non competative/sports based, white dragon with the odd Black Dragon killing move thrown in as a "self defense neccesity". I've only studied Judo at any lengrh in the japanese schools and really liked it. That was the most competative martial art (with the possible exception of fencing) for me. I liked knowing I had a competition, it motivated me to train harder and fight till I felt I was about to die. |
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Ceri..... yeah, Japanes archery is really cool. One of my instructors has a realy fiunny story of being in Japan and viewing a Kyudo demo, as the guest of the head archer. They had to view it in kneling position out of respect but didn´t realise it takes about 20 minutes per arrow because of the whole meditative way this (non combatitive)style is practiced now. So he ended up kneeling for 2 hours! - which aint easy even for a Westener training for a good few years.The gas thing is he tells us this story at the end of class as WE are kneeling and he draws it out for ages... to make a ironic point about prepardedness!!! Classic martial artistry! As for motivation... i train harder cos i know it would take me a lifetime to study ONE of the schools i´m learning nevermind the other 8! Plus its bloody cool looking and totally combat-effective! |
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