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shortdog
Yellow Belt
Joined: 14 Jul 2001
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kung fu was founded by bodhidaram or in chinese da-mo. travled to the shaolin tempol in songshan mountain in the henan province. he stayed in the mountain to meditate for 9 years, at 76 he began teaching health arts like maditatinf to the monks. durring his time living in the monistary he realised that monks who meditated for many hours a day were in poor physcal condition. they couldn't preform the physcal tasks to maintain the monistary. and when attacked by bandits they couldnt defend them selves. so bodhidarma taught the monks 3 exercises to keep them strong and healthy. he showed them:
Lohan Shi ba shou (18 hands of arhats)
yi jin jing (book of changing tendons)
xi shui jing (book of washing bone marrow)
over time there were 3 martial artist that changed the course of kung fu. but i cant find them in my book right now so. they eventually created the 5 animal system. kung fu went from 18 movments to 128 for each of the 5 animals, hu xing(tiger), she xing(snake), he xing(crane), bao xing(panther), long xing(dragon). and that dosnt include monked kung fu, praying mantis, drunken kung fu. or long fist or half a dozen others
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Joecooke007
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Joined: 24 Nov 2001
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It's definitely Kung Fu 
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moobrack
Black Belt
Joined: 09 Aug 2001
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Location: Leeds
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| Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2001 9:53 am Post subject: |
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I thought they studied their own style called Shaolin Kung Fu.
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Iron Arahat
Red Belt
Joined: 08 Aug 2001
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Location: Canada
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SaiFightsMS
KF VIP
Joined: 28 Oct 2001
Posts: 6322
Location: Ohio
Styles: Shotokan, Shorin Ryu, Shi-to Ryu
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What an excellant training oppurtunity you had.
Wish that we could all have the same. Or would that take away from the wonder?
Would the arts have the same allure and mystery to us if someone with a word processor and video cam had been following around the originators centuries ago. The search for the history is kind of fun though. |
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on the post.
