Mantis--Baiyuan Chudong 白猿出洞--White Ape Exits Cave

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Uploaded by on Aug 30, 2007

This is a demo of the Northern Mantis form, White Ape Exits Cave, performed by Zhou Baofu (Porf Jou) of Kung-fu Loung. In Zhou's curriculum, this is usually the first form taught to introduce monkey footwork and mechanics. www.kungfuloung.com.tw

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  • Is this a 7-Star Mantis set or from another system?

  • 7 Star Mantis, but from a rarer lineage, called Longfist Mantis by Gao Daosheng.

  • This isn't chu dong? Which style of mantis is this?

  • It is 7* Mantis but from the same lineage as Gao Daosheng, also known as Longfist Mantis.

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  • @katsura1982 Thank you, my friend. That makes it much more clear for me. It was very nice of you to reply to my confusion.

  • @JimNitti it's actually part of the move involving the following kick as well, called 右式閉門腿 (you shi bi men tui). luckily for you those aren't punches, they're diao shou (刁手) which look similar to gou shou (the mantis grabby grabby hands). you can fling both of your hands out forward as you kick your left foot back and then, as if grabbing/clawing something, pull them back to your chest, at which point you execute the kick with your right foot.

  • My teacher has me learning this form. I'm having a lot of trouble with the strikes where you hold your wrist and bring the back foot straight back (see 2:24). I just can't seem to understand where the force is coming from so my punches lack force. For me this applies to any punch where you're on one leg, but especially here.

    If anyone can edify me, I'd really appreciate it.

    It's one of those things where I can execute the move, but don't

  • great clip!

  • glad you slowed it down for us.Nice form!

  • Because any mantis style can incorporate other styles/ systems movements...it's all about the preferences of the form's creator.

  • That AND his focus/ intensity alternates with gentle, smooth transitions. All that and he does it very quickly, making it look effortless...

  • It's Northern Mantis, Monkey footwork is subsystem, the name of this series.

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