found these vids online--
some southern shaolin
taken some years ago in southern Taiwan...
C.J.W. wrote:As a Taiwanese CMAist who's dabbled in southern arts, I have to sadly say that the overall state of southern styles (perhaps with the exception of Fujian White Crane) on the island these days is quite bleak -- even to the point of being pathetic. All that's left are fancy forms and basic power training drills, with masters who understand the fighting aspects of the arts few and far between.
As an interesting and somewhat ironic sidenote, many of the "secret" fighting techniques I've been shown behind closed doors and asked to promise not to reveal by southern style teachers in Taiwan are in many cases almost identical to the applications openly taught in Indo-Malay-Filipino arts like Silat, Kuntao, and Kali.
Formosa Neijia wrote:C.J.W. wrote:As a Taiwanese CMAist who's dabbled in southern arts, I have to sadly say that the overall state of southern styles (perhaps with the exception of Fujian White Crane) on the island these days is quite bleak -- even to the point of being pathetic. All that's left are fancy forms and basic power training drills, with masters who understand the fighting aspects of the arts few and far between.
As an interesting and somewhat ironic sidenote, many of the "secret" fighting techniques I've been shown behind closed doors and asked to promise not to reveal by southern style teachers in Taiwan are in many cases almost identical to the applications openly taught in Indo-Malay-Filipino arts like Silat, Kuntao, and Kali.
Boom. This, right here.
I got involved with silat due to the obvious source of many of the applications: southern shaolin. It's very obvious that diaspora Fujianese took their arts to SE Asia where the Fujian and other southern arts blended with the local arts. The result is that a lot of silat, kuntao, etc. is showing serious southern applications that aren't shown very openly much in the Chinese systems. The silat/kuntao people are actually working the material and subjecting it to feedback rather than letting it stagnate.
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