18 LOHAN PRACTICE

[brightoctober711]

Who is the artist of the hip hop track?

Great video!

[arcanemuses]

When I studied a varient of this in Pai Lum Tao, we called it SHIH PA LOHAN SO or "18 Hands of Lohan". One of my favorite forms:)

[ShyningStar1]

Beautiful Stuff .. fluid movement  and good technique go0d stuff brother

Peace

[chouchousan]

the forms that r there 2day like xiaohongquan, dahongquan, luohanquan, paoquan, etc etc all came from many of the original 18 luohans.

[chouchousan]

the form in the video is called Luohan Shibashou... it came from one of the original 18 luohan systems...

its a modernised version that is shown in the video...

as for the 18 luohan... there are 18 different fighting styles called "18 luohan" in northern n southern shaolin....which means in total there are 36. unfortunately many of them are lost.

although a few of the original still survive.

theres this monk Shi De Jian...it seems he knows one version of the original 18 luohan.

[18hands]

This is an authentic form. I know the same form. This is the 18 hands that Master Woo Chai Meng from the Henan school teaches in Chinatown.

[Mazad10]

Soz:S that isnt 18 lohan thats just some guy doing some other kung fu in the street

[WhiteEyebrowFist]

There is no one uniform orthodox 18 Lohan form. All of the movements in the various 18 Lohan forms found throughout different systems of Kung Fu are derived from various Buddhist Monk's or Kung Fu masters personal objective observation and study of the moods, gestures and personalities of the 18 Arahant statues.

[WhiteEyebrowFist]

Legend has it that the first portraits of the 18 Lohans / Arahants were painted by a Buddhist monk Guan Xiu, in 891 C.E when he claimed that the 18 Lohans appeared to him in a dream. Guan Xiu lived in what is today's Sichuan Province.

[WhiteEyebrowFist]

The movements are generally based on the traditional order in which the 18 Lohans appeared in Guan Xiu's dreams. The order is: Deer Sitting, Happy, Raised Bowl, Raised Pagoda, Meditating, Oversea, Elephant Riding, Laughing Lion, Open Heart, Raised Hand, Thinking, Scratched Ear, Calico Bag, Plantain, Long Eyebrow, Doorman, Taming Dragon and Taming Tiger Lohans.

[Nubreedkalisilat]

What style do you practice?? We have that same form in Kajukenbo Wun Hop Kuen Do Kung Fu. Ben