morgothan’s kung fu repository

Not much has happened with regard to Kung Fu since my last post. I am still learning spear. My God is that a long form. There is some really nice parts in the form, and I really do like the form a lot. Its just very very long. Since the weather has been getting better, I have once again started picking up my rope dart, and playing with that outside. Hopefully I will get “good enough” to preform some nice moves with it by the end of the summer. Once I feel comfortable with it, I will post some videos of it online. On an interesting note, I picked up a copy of the Hua Chuan 1 book. Which is done by Grand Master Gary S. Torres. It is pretty interesting. I would not have been able to learn the form with it, but it is nice, as it has all the moves drawn in it, with there correct corresponding names. This is something we do not teach at my school. So I now know that one of the opening moves is called white gorilla steals fruit, and presents it to the emperor. Which is awesome. I would like to get all the books, and learn all the names of all the moves. But that is a down the road goal.

My internal studies are going well. I still really enjoy Hsing Yi. Although classes have just been running through An shen pao. It still a nice system. Also Pau Kua is very nice. I have yet to start learning the form, but I know all the palm changes, and have started to learn some of the stick techniques. All in all I really like it.