What style(s) are represented here?

Amerindo Self Defense with Oom Jim Ingram. It is a combination of U.S. combatives, boxing, Pakistani grappling, and about 6 different systems of pentjak silat. There are also people in my class who have done kali, wing chun, hapkido, ninjitsu, Bjj, escrima, Bagua, and xing yi.

Northern Shaolin Mei Hua Chuan.

Shaolin chaun fa............

Northern Shaolin Kung Fu, some Wushu, and some basic Wing Chun.

Meihua Tanglang Quan (Plum blossom Preying Mantis)

i practice the style of me. being myself is what is important even in a fight. but as for martial arts, i practice boxing, some wing chun, and i look into other styles sometimes to see if i can take something from them which will help me to improve the way i fight. i consider my way of fighting JKD, what jkd does is to add what works for you and to subtract what does not work for you. jkd is what i practice and by doing so i also take from other styles what works.

I have had some very brief exposure to Tai Chi, some Tiger style kung fu, and the Chi Sao aspect of Wing Chun.

Fang Shen Do (Way of survival).Based on Wing Chung. All ranges of fighting are taught ,including weapons.

Xingyi, Bagua, Taiji (chen, yang) and Hung Gar.Of course I've trained in TKD and karate too, but I have moved on.

Kung Fu >>> it's all basterised these days, all martial arts are cousins and give and take from each other to evolve in what we have today.

KungFu Styles I have encountered and study
Ki Gong, TaiChi, Wushu, Kuntao, Silat, Iron Conditioning

In response to Buttefly Palm its a lesser known version of Preying Mantis just like Seven Star, 8-step and Tai Chi Mantis are all different.

I learn under the current head of system in China, Shandong Province, Yantia city. Its bassicaly Meihua foot work with close range Mantis hands and throws. So we circle our enemy... but not in the same way as Bagua. Not easy to explain.

Hope this provides some insight if not ill try and explain in more detail.

Meihua, as its name suggests, do things in Fives, as the 'Meihua' flower (Plum Blossom) has 5 petals. The chinese habitually designate anything (not just in MA) in Fives as 'Meihua'

How is this translated into the Meihua footwork? As you talk about circling; does this means you circle in a Five-Pointed Diagrammatic fashion? like a Five Pointed Star?

To see how this Meihua footwork is combined with the hand techniques of TangLang should be interesting to watch. I suppose whoever combined the two systems took the best features of both.

I certainly agree this is a lesser known system.

To elaborate a bit if you imagine a flower with the centre surrounded by petals, the oponent would be the centre and I would be the petals moving either side and around the oponent attacking were he is weaker. It is a very close range style (unlike 7 star for example) with lots of seizing and limb breaks/groin strikes etc.

I have my master performing some Qi Gong and the first two main forms on video, maby I can try and get a link put up if he says its ok.

That would be great.

I am sure everyone would love to see it.

I rep. Hung Fa Yi Wingchun, and a bit of leopard kungfu.

Shaolin SSU, baby

Chi Tao Chuan Gung Fu

Go to www.greendragonsociety.com it gives a good description of chi tao chuan gung fu

Teoul Moon Kung Fu, which consists of several styles of Kung Fu. It's mainly focused on Five Animal and Preying Mantis, with some Hung Gar techniques and footwork included. Very diverse and interesting system that I do not believe I'll ever master...just too much stuff and not enough time. Guess I'll just keep trying!

-Sting

I study wing chun kuen.
I would like to get into a more internal style of kung fu, but i want to build a good basis for it first.

Traditional Kung Fu San Soo
-The Dog of War

Hebei Xingyiquan

chinese martial arts-- mainly consists of southern styles.

Gao Ba Gua, Hsing I, TKD, a small amount of Aikido, and a minimal amount of cross training in Muay Thai, Tibetan Crane, Hapkido, Kali, Kendo, and Silat. Ba Gua and Hsing I are really my only main ones though ^_^

Pure Hung Gar. Nothing more, nothing less...

choy lee fut

I study a 10 animal style called Chen Wuan Gung Fu or something like that....(spelling could be wrong) I really enjoy it. I've also studyed Tang Soo Do, and American Kenpo....,but more gung fu

i do Eight Shadow Drunken Boxing, which was taught in the Ma family

7 star praying mantis and Eagle Claw

Kung Fu San Soo, at Kung Fu San Soo of Texas (just started!).

I started with karate, tried aikido for a while. Then I had a big break from training. About a year and a half ago I started karate again from the beginner level. (I'm 24 now.)

About six months ago I started this mixed gongfu style. They don't really care that much about styles or belt rankings. It is a wonderful and realistic system with groundwork and everything included. Full contact sparring. I just hope they some day would explain more about different styles incorporated to the system.

Lau Gar Kung Fu. I think it is one of the 5 main ones, cant remember what the other 4 are. Been doing it for a few months now, its brill!

thanx
CKS

Yang Long Fist Tai Chi Chaun for 27 years.
Wu Tai Chi Chau Gau Gee for the past 6 years.

Studies in Pai Lum (White Dragon), Sil Lum (N. Shaolin)0, Tai Tong Long (N. Mantis) and Faan Tzi Ying Jow Pai (N. Eagle Claw) over the years (about 20 forms back 25 years ago.

I do Wing Chun and Chi Kung. And I love it! I've been doing Wing Chun for about 4 years now, Chi Kung for about 2 years. I prefer Wing Chun though. I do Chi Kung mainly for relaxation purposes.

Shaolin Do; only been doing it for 3 weeks though.

Did tkd and Muay Thai for a while a couple of years then moved on to boxing and Wing Chun. Wrestling. Now Im doing whats called JKD. Really just doing my own thing. been doing it most of my life.

Feng Shou (Hand of the Wind Kung Fu). It's an internal style so concentrates on developing chi, sensitivity, etc.. turning the opponents force back on them.

i liq chuan under Master Sam F.S. Chin

southern praying mantis...I guess I'm the only one

hey guys whats up again its been a while since i posted something here...well i study YIN STYLE BAGUA ZHANG UNDER GRANDMASTER CHEN XIAU PING AND GTF TAEKWONDO UNDER MASTER 7TH DAN MANUEL QUILES

wow this is a old post... oh well. If people want to get it going again.

Taekwondo, judo, and hapkido.

Mudokwan
http://www.mudokwan.net/

Matt

I am currently studying Wing Tsun. I love it

Me too! And still keeping up on BJJ to fill in the gaps.

Glad to see others enjoy it to

Praying Mantis/Shaolin

-Sky

so many WC guys here...i feel lonely

Yu Lung Kung Fu and Qi Gong. A southern internal style, I don't know that much about the history.

Haha, yeah, I love studying 7 Star Mantis, it's by far my favorite martial art that i've studied.

-Sky

Chinese arts?

I did Chin-na and Sanda. Then I read a lot.

To be honest, this last month I've done it again. I've changed color. Now, I'm doing Sanda with many techniques from Baji. Very powerful!

To be honest, nothing fancy. It's just kickboxing at far, Baji at close range and then throw.

Guess I'm losing my MT soon, need to go back practice some more ~_~

-Taison out

Don't mean to derail, but i'm a little confused - is Sanda a style per se, or is it competition? Is it the same thing as san shou?

To be frank, I don't know.

In my opinion and understanding is, Sanda is a style. San Shou is a competition.

Sanda is "modern MMA kung-fu". San Shou is like China's version of Vale Tudo.

-Taison out

I thought SanDa, originally, wasnt really a style simply taking one of the kungfu arts and then basically free fighting with it (hence the name SanDa). So in a way it was like doing kungfu without standing in like horse stance and such, eventually it just became what it is today. Well..thats how I think of it anyway

Down at my club they offer San Da Kickboxing. All of the arts taught there are of a chinese origin. So at a guess what IExcalibui2 is saying is correct.

thanx
CKS

Sanda is also known as "practical Wushu" so if you were to identify it with something, it's NHB Wushu.

SanDa is basically boxing, Wushu, Shui Jiao and Chin-na strung together. There is however, little emphasis on Chin-na in competion but Shui Jiao is one of the main tools of San Da.

The throws in Sanda are similar, if not, exactly like the ones in wrestling[Greco-roman] with a little more emphasis throwing after catching a kick or parrying.

Can we call it Kung Fu? Yes. It requires kung-fu, but it's not an internal styles, it's an external like Wing Chun. The blocking and parrying are similar to Wing Chun, the elbow techniques are mostly derived from Baji quan, while punch/kicks are from many arts.

It's mainland China's version of MMA without external influence.

It is indeed a style. But saying it's kickboxing is kind of wrong in my view, it should be categorized into an MMA style. Look at Cung Lee, he's doing fine.

Sanda is an art. Sanshou is a type of competition.

-Taison out

technically sanda and sanshou are the same thing, it's like saying sparring and freefighting. but the current trend is to use the terms as you described.

strictly speaking san shou is the final progression in your kung fu training.

something like

ting / guan shao
tui shao
chi shao
san shao

yea thats what I meant with free fighting. Using you kungfu with no form. You've progressed to a level where you no longer need to stand like an eagle or act like a monkey or look like a praying mantis. You just look like you. Form with no form.

Hung Family Fist!!! New to the forum and CMA, Glad 2 be here.

I've trained my whole life, statring in judo, wushu, animal transfermations, I can instruct Iaido, Aiki Jujitzu, Tai chi, Tai lui chuan fu, jukungdo Chi gung. I currently train closed door under two masters the tai lui, Iaido and Aiki under 78 year old sigung tallbear, and O-mei kung fu tai, chi and chigung master (jack fu), I am training in 2 disiplines that I have not reached instructor level yet, Pai te mei (white Eyebrow) under tallbear, and O-mei gung fu (fire dragon) under Jack fu. my specialty is outdoor (Mnt training) my first 11 years of training was done almost alway outside in the woods or on posts

Shaolin-Do, Tai Chi.