Praying Mantis Kung Fu - Purple Belt

This is a video showing 9th Degree Grand Master Henry Sue teaching two of his Purple Belt Disciples Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu, plus a short but dynamic demonstration by the students showing some fighting techniques used to destroy the vital points around the head and neck.

These students have extremely strong conditioning to these areas and is not recommended for the average person to try this at home.

LINKS TO OTHER VIDEOS:

Praying Mantis Kung Fu - Part 1 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0wRqR9J8WA
Praying Mantis Kung Fu - Part 2 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlInJFHw5mQ
Praying Mantis Kung Fu - Purple Belt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ede9OzH1HnA
Grandmaster Henry Sue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAiAnMFtCxU

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Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Southern
• Praying
• Mantis
• Kung
• Fu
• Grandmaster
• Henry
• Sue
• Chow
• Gar
• Tong
• Long
• Preying

[jasma98]

Great Kung Fu Aaron!!!

[aaronturnby]

@jasma98 Thanks Jasma

[redmanti5]

muay thai is good, i agree. but it's all external energy. brute force, fitness.

kung fu is both external and internal, relaxation, structure, rhythm - everything to nothing. it's completely different, and in a league of its own.

[emptycup3]

yeah i would love to see some dead ninjas too!!!!

[pimpleburger]

If only you guys had a school here in Melbourne. I think I'd enjoy Praying Mantis style training over Wing Chun. 

[aaronturnby]

@Anandfulness We tried this last year with a lot of different headgear and found even at half power most students were seeing stars or getting concussion. One student also got a perforated ear drum from a Hoon Sou so we found the only benefit would be for using headgear for semi contact sparring to avoid getting cut or having nose broken etc. But we still had to go at less then half power with a lot of control so only the more senior students were doing this as they have the control.

[Anandfulness]

@wolfvasa "I wouldn't want to train there if my training partner could full-force, slap the crap out of me in training. "

Modern SPM schools implement the use of face-protection and do their strikes at full speed. The system works at all levels, only people that haven't tried it for themselves will question it's effectiveness.

[wolfvasa]

I am amazed at the number of people who say "are the slaps meant to have power?" or "the slaps look weak, are they holding back?". If you notice, they are fighting real people, it is a training session, I wouldn't want to train there if my training partner could full-force, slap the crap out of me in training. Students (the lucky ones) would be recovering in hospital for days or even weeks. Anyone who asks if these guys are holding back are idiots.

[animelova11]

This makes me want to go to australia and want to join this awesome group

[aaronturnby]

@MarmarAkaSeiryu we hardly ever use kicks as we would prefer to use our legs for other things, like gripping to produce energy or moving in out etc or to get inside the stance and use our rocking energy to unbalance them at the knee level etc.

[MarmarAkaSeiryu]

@aaronturnby ah! ok thank you for the reply :) i see all of the collapsing and replacing tech's and they're really fast. one last question in chow gar do you use only low kicks?

[aaronturnby]

@MarmarAkaSeiryu They are sticking most of the time and in the cases when they are not is because they been tricked or they jumped off the person sticking arm or hand.