Re: Chinese boxing but with Japanese names
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 8:14 am
wayne hansen wrote:I think if you look at Shorinji Kempo it is hard to see anything that resembles Chinese arts
yes thats what th chinese said too, when the japanese shorinji kenpo and its story came to their knowlege....as i have read some time ago doshin so met an learned from a monk at the shaolin temple.....the same monk(same name) wang xiangzhai met that monk too at his visit to the shaplin temple..according to wangs story, the elderly monk was the only one at the temple that knew some boxing at that time, and only two exercises from the xingyiba system, and wang was not impressed.......later xingyiba has been "recreated" at the shaolin.......so what doshin so learned at shaolin was probably at most the two exercises wang was not impressed about.......i would guess the basic block straight punch drill and their ready(block/guard) stance in shorinji kenpo are what doshin so picked up at shaolin, the rest is karate kicks and aikijutsu mixed in.