Leung Shum Wu Fast Form

[shawnsegler]

Just came across this and was just remembering him in "The Warrior Within" back when I was a kid along with Chan Pui and Wai Hong...Moses Powell..lots of goodness.

The point however is I really like his movement. I've seen other do the Wu Fast form and it had...I dunno, a kind of "flatness" to it that I've seen in a lot of (not all ) Cheng style Bagua guys as well. His form seems really well rounded in all the different qualities like the frame and cadence, flow and 3d fullness...presence..etc. Anyway, I liked it.

[willie]

Ha! I remember a video from a longtime ago with Moses Powell.
It had a bunch of different styles on it, including tai chi. it talked about self defense and showed clip's from bad area's in NYC, right?


I guess I'm getting old too.

[Steve James]

Master Shum's students also competed in lots of the tournaments back then. Also reminded me of Aaron Banks, if that brings back anyone else's memories of those days http://www.worldwidedojo.com/traditiona ... -has-died/

[shawnsegler]

Willie, it's the same movie.

Here's Leung Shum from that at 3:15

If you were a kid in the early 70's into Bruce Lee and kung fu movies in general this Movie did a lot to nail that desire into place. IME, of course.

[shawnsegler]

and, of course, the Fu Jow Pai guy who like to stick chopsticks in peoples eyes.

[shawnsegler]

Master Shum's students also competed in lots of the tournaments back then. Also reminded me of Aaron Banks, if that brings back anyone else's memories of those days http://www.worldwidedojo.com/traditiona ... -has-died/

Most of the guys I've met who were training Kung Fu in the 70's in NYC were no joke. Lots of opportunities to practice I gather.

S

[wayne hansen]

always liked this guy
his jumping double sidekick is incredable
however this is not a fast set but the standard 108

[Bob]

He also was known for his eagle claw - trained in Hong Kong before New York - somewhere in my piles of old, old tapes I have a demonstration of him doing eagle claw - in the 1970s or 80s a bunch of demonstration tapes came out of the New York Martial arts scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT6OptKEcHw




Sword practice at 26:34 mark is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KmFI_VXAIk

Published on Apr 7, 2016


MASTERS OF EAGLE CLAW - The Legacy of Grandmaster Leung Shum’s Ying Jow Pai
Directed by: Michael Schiller
Produced by: Lenny Aaron

[willie]

Yup, That was the movie.

[windwalker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiIEnRTVZys

I fist saw Gini Lau demo eagle claw, as a young teenager in SF
She must have been 19 at the time many yrs ago.


Her sister Lily lau,

Lily Lau is the eldest daughter of the 7th Generation Eagle Claw Late Grandmaster Lau Fat Mang. Master Lau passed away on March 17-1964, at the age of 62. Lily rose to her father's position at the age of nineteen due to the circumstances and cultural expectations. Since Kung Fu has been regarded as an integral part of the Chinese culture, Grandmaster Lau, determined to continue her father's dream, through hard work and persistence, she has continued teaching through out the years, spreading Eagle Claw Kung Fu. She is the first and only woman to take over a Kung Fu System and teach openly as a Kung Fu Master.

Master Lau began studying Eagle Claw, Yin Jow Fan Tzu from her father at the tender age of four. Great Grandmaster Lau Fat Mang

would train his daughter Gini without mercy in the late evening and early mornings, having her do all of the movements and forms of the Eagle Claw system under his watchful eye. This training would continue for some eight years until his untimely death in 1964.

http://www.ginilaueagleclaw.com/WECA/Gini_Lau.html

interesting style.

[Rhen]

That is not the Wu Fast form.

Wu Fast form looks more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JRF_Etczow

[windwalker]

That is not the Wu Fast form.

Wu Fast form looks more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JRF_Etczow

It might be interesting to explain what you feel is different.

as an example


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrEgivmDaM8

[Steve James]

Yeah, he is most well known as the godson of Ng Wai Nung of Ying Jow Pai.
Afa the question of the fast form, Ma's fast form is the Shanghai style. Lum's is from Hong Kong, though I don't think it's his fast form. I could be wrong.

[Bao]

Ma Yue Liang have said in interviews that when he was young there was only the fast form. It wasn't called that back then. It was only one form and it was practiced relatively fast. The "square form", slow vs fast form practice etc came later when it became more popular so it would be easier to teach bigger groups.