Formosa Neijia

There’s an interesting long fist/mantis form called si lu beng da (四路蹦打).
Here is Han Qing-tan doing an early version of the form:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkWY4joNlUk
BTW, I heard that the video above was shot by the CIA when Robert Smith was here in Taiwan. Apparently, they were doing some documenting of local martial artists. Pretty cool, eh?
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I was hoping to write up an intro to long fist but I found one here that is light-years beyond what I could write up. This is the most info on long fist that I’ve ever found on the web. Lots of good material here; some that still needs to be translated. Maybe one day [...]

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Continuing with the focus on Zhou laoshi, I have an intro here written by Casey on Zhou laoshi’s mantis system. The reason that I asked him to write this is that he has more experience with Zhou’s mantis than I do. Another reason is that I’ve come to see that Zhou’s mantis and his long [...]

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For the next week, I’m going to take some time out and profile one of my main teachers — Zhou Bao-fu of the Kung Fu Loung school. This year is the school’s tenth anniversary so this would be a good time to introduce him. Additionally, his excellent DVDs are on sale at drastically slashed prices [...]

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The following is an article from the only English newspaper in Taiwan that I haven’t worked for (I need a new career!). It introduces Lin laoshi, a long fist-mantis teacher that learned from the legendary teacher Gao Dao-sheng. Lin has recently opened a type of museum that is talked about in the article. I [...]

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This is an excellent version of tantui by the famous Taiwan long fist teacher Han Qing-tan. This is very traditional, unlike the wushu-influenced verisons out of China. I think I might have every version of tantui available on VCD and none of them, not one, look this good. Almost everything that’s come out of China [...]

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