Shaolin White Crane Kung Fu

Teen Casey Hall performs Southern Shaolin White Crane Kung Fu at the 2007 Houston International Martial Arts Championships

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Sports

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• Southern
• Shaolin
• Fukien
• White
• Crane
• Kung
• Fu
• martial
• arts

[sifushaolin]

As far as Kung Fu or Gong Fu or Tai Chi or Taiji so on and so on...all this confusion over the way Chinese is written in English...Chinese as a written language is pictographic based on Sanskrit originally...English is written in Hindu Arabic based alphabet...so what is the difference in Wade-Giles the older form of phonetically writing Chinese or Pinyin the modern way to write Chinese...so no difference....just written different.

[sifushaolin]

Normal? A human imitating a bird is not really normal although it is an "art form". I think what you mean is "common" white crane which usually is a northern shaolin or Tibetan form of the animal style. The southern literally mean it originated in the southern shaolin temple in fukian or fujian province china as opposed to the northern shaolin temple in hunan province china...these are the two major temple of shaolin Buddhism in which the famous martial art originated.

[inverosimilitud]

that looked more like snake style

[sifushaolin]

@inverosimilitud Good observation! Actually it would be the other way around...White Crane is a much older style than Snake (Snake looks like Crane) it was developed when a martial artist observed a "fight" between a crane and a snake...most traditional Crane sequences have "snake" strikes incorporated. I am sure that is what you noticed..but if you look closely (I know it goes a bit fast) you will see that throughout most of the form the hand isn't "snake hand" but actually a "crane wing"

[sifushaolin]

@inverosimilitud Keep studying you'll get it bro!

[Southtexaswhitecrane]

Let's plz stop all the argument. This isn't a video about which art is better. Thank you.

[Southtexaswhitecrane]

Anyone can be good regardless of race. Humans can do anything because of our very unique brain.

[mcul2112]

kid was jamming. way to go kid! great stuff...

[camljokee]

@sifushaolin

I should have specified what I meant by "normal", was Tibetan. I didn't know there were so many variations of one animal form depending on geographical location and time period. Am I correct in assuming Tibetan was the first White Crane? I was told its a combination of influence of a martial arts master from India, and a monk witnessing a crane defend against an ape? And thanks for the info, I was having a very tough time trying to figure out the difference between the wording.

[MightySunTzu]

@MightySunTzu many movies usually means the orignal chinese schools, both the spiritual and physical, the movement of jing, qi gong, and other arts. an artist may have gung fu- study the way, master it, forget the way and make your own way. the martial arts forms in china are traditionally called chan chuan.

[MightySunTzu]

@camljokee sothern shaolin arts tend to, oddly enough focus a little more on the lower body( roots especially) im not sure if this is true of crane, but thats what ive noticed with most other southern and northern forms. footwork, attacking the roots, moving around and into the opponent or object as well as other more complicated movements and training. gung fu is the more original term, kung fu in america refers to just the physical forms, chinese martial arts, gung fu as popularized by...

[camljokee]

What is the difference between Southern Shaolin White Crane and normal White Crane? And why do some people say Gung Fu and some say Kung Fu ??