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Date Posted: 01:56:48 04/09/03 Wed
Author: Goktimus Prime
Subject: yeah, that looks more like a southern style
In reply to: OneDragons 's message, "Re: starting up" on 07:26:23 04/04/03 Fri

I'm not familiar with that syllabus either -- it seems Southern to me (since "faat" sounds more Cantonese than Mandarin).

"Sticking" isn't really the name for any style, it's a type of technique that is heavily employed in Praying Mantis as well as other styles of Kung Fu, such as Yongchun (Wing Chun).

Styles of Northern Praying Mantis include Seven Star, Plum Blossom, Six Harmony and Eight Step Praying Mantis. I've not heard of a style called "Sticking Mantis" before.

>For one their is weapons earlier on and
>they use a wooden dummy a bit like wing chun and some
>Sothern styles (I think), as far as I know this is not
>typical of praying mantis

Actually, it's not uncommon for Northern Kung Fu schools to use wooden dummies these days, even though it's a traditionally Southern Kung Fu training implement, especially amongst Northern Mantis... a lot of recent literature shows masters utilising the Wing Chun Wooden Dummy.

>also their is no 18
>ancestor/ 18 hand form so is definately different to
>the Northern praying mantis I am doing.

I've never heard of it in any Northern style either, which leads me to suspect that it may be a Southern Style.

>The instructor has probably done some other stuff and
>incorporated it in to his syllabus.
>

That is also a very possible situation, especially if we've never heard of most of this stuff before, a lot of it could have been invented by the instructor or his instructor. *shrug*

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