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March 26th, 2007, 02:04 PM
|  | Weathered Post Master  | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Augusta, Ga...For now Style(s): Choy Lee Fut/Kenpo Year(s): Not Long
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Rep Power: 41 | | | I was actually looking into getting some taps for distance learning but have been worried about developing alot of bad habbits. I was thinking of going with underground kung fu (in San Fran) and some things i found in Inside Kung Fu but cant say who the maker is. Any thoughts of distance learning as a whole. This may shead some light on some peoples clear lik/dislike of the Green Dragon Videos. |
March 26th, 2007, 02:10 PM
|  | <--theguychangingmyavatar   | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Land of Whales Style(s): Mei Hua Chuan/MMA Year(s): 21
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Rep Power: 220 | | | Learning from video is fine if you have a foundation in a style and know what you're doing.
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March 26th, 2007, 08:06 PM
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Rep Power: 100 | | | I remember something about a video behind the green door....it was supose to be about someone becomming more aware of things but I don't think it was Kung- Fu
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March 26th, 2007, 08:14 PM
| | <--theguychangingmyavatar | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Land of Whales Style(s): Mei Hua Chuan/MMA Year(s): 21
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March 27th, 2007, 01:08 PM
|  | Fear is the Mind Killer | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: MA Style(s): Long Men Jia Quan Year(s): 27
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Rep Power: 81 | | | lol aqira, I've seen it. I did a lot of fast forwarding trying to find the good parts.
I didn't.
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February 7th, 2008, 11:56 PM
|  | Beginner | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: caldwell idaho Style(s): shaolin Kung-Fu, Muay thi Year(s): 6 years
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Rep Power: 0 | |  Hey Im Ethan
I just joined this site. And if your wanting to know if im a martial artist. I am, I train in shaolin kung-fu, Karate, and muay thai. Im just beggining in muay thai so i dont know much about it. i only know a few things about the culture, and how long it gos back. but ne ways. Im new and want to make a few friends.
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February 8th, 2008, 01:56 AM
| | <--theguychangingmyavatar | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Land of Whales Style(s): Mei Hua Chuan/MMA Year(s): 21
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Rep Power: 220 | | | This has what to do with Green Dragon Academy?
Welcome to the DL, by the way, but if you're just doing an intro, it's the wrong spot, check out the Newcomers Forum
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February 8th, 2008, 07:14 AM
|  | mogate victim | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Leeds Style(s): wc/arnis/(b)jj Year(s): since 2002
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July 12th, 2008, 01:05 PM
| | Venerable Student | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Girard,Ohio Style(s): Tien Shan Pai,Fu-Family Year(s): 36years
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Rep Power: 3 | | here IS Green Dragon's web-site; Green Dragon Kung-Fu, Gung-Fu, John Allen, Intstructional Videos I trained there for 8 yrs. when I first started in Kung-fu. They really work on strength, and low stances,...lots of isometric body programs with and without herbs. As I have trained with other Si-Fu over the years,..looking back, the forms for the most part were correct and authentic,(with-in' school to school slight movement/posture changes that shows up in ALL schools), Si-Fu John R. Allen is a very educated man, with tons of experience in Kung-Fu,(the internal styles are a little lacking because of poor posture),..and under the direction of GrandMaster Ong FeeMan at one time(he has passed on'), was thee' Best overall school I've seen. Since then training at other schools and correcting alot of posture glitches, all of my old forms from Green Dragon have become new again. |
July 13th, 2008, 12:43 AM
| | Venerable Student | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Girard,Ohio Style(s): Tien Shan Pai,Fu-Family Year(s): 36years
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Rep Power: 3 | | | and',... I must add, as was stated earlier,...don't judge a whole school by viewing one or two students,...lol'. EVERY school, no matter how good the Si-Fu is,..or How Famous they are, ALL have beginners' and students that Can't represent the 'whole' view of the style/school! Not Everybody 'gets it' as it were,...even though they might train hard or have a good mental understanding,..sometimes they aren't able to portray it in movement or action. Plus, as we all know,....just because someone trains in Kung-Fu,...doesn't mean they know how to apply it in a fight-situation! You can go to ANY school, in CHINA,(or elsewhere,..lol), with a World Famous Si-Fu and Demo-Team, and a Movie-Star used to Train there,..lol',...and still find that alot of students there can't fight, or aren't able to do forms correctly yet,..it's O.K.,...we are ALL training and trying our best towards the same goals,...we will progress at our own level. Coach Li |
July 13th, 2008, 02:44 AM
|  | Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London Style(s): tai chi Year(s): 9
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Rep Power: 160 | | | Wow! I clicked the link and got a promotional clip of some woman with a couple of axes pretending to chop a guy's head off and the subtitle "realistic fighting". That definitely highlights one issue with video training: if your marketing isn't up to scratch and you don't post sufficient information for people to judge without buying you can offer the best product in the world and no one is going to pay up.
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July 13th, 2008, 10:39 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: CT Style(s): Kung Fu, Bando, TKD Year(s): 18
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Rep Power: 0 | | | I agree with John100 - description sounds good on a couple of these, but it would really help if they had a 5 second clip of the tape to know what you are buying. |
July 13th, 2008, 11:03 AM
| | <--theguychangingmyavatar | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Land of Whales Style(s): Mei Hua Chuan/MMA Year(s): 21
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Rep Power: 220 | | | A good selection of those forms come from my System, they are good quality forms.
When they speak of realistic fighting, trust them when they say that, they do show the practical and realistic applications of the forms.
When it comes to the Weapon forms, they also show the practical application of that weapon in combat usage. |
July 13th, 2008, 11:44 AM
|  | GM of Chunky Cheese KF | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa Style(s): Striking & Grappling Year(s): too few
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Rep Power: 41 | | | well, the pic of the Sifu shows a man who is in excellent shape to fight. A lot of hard work goes into getting arms like that.
The number one rule. If the grandmaster looks like he sits around all day eating Cheesy Poofs, then that's what he probably does.
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