Mantis Boxing in Shanghai.

[Shanghai_kid]

Hello.

I'm a student of Northern Praying Mantis in Shanghai, China. Our mantis teacher is Master Kai Uwe Pel.

Our school is World Chin Woo Men and we have continued the Chin Woo tradition of teaching Luo Guang Yu's Seven Star Mantis Boxing in Shanghai.

Our homepage is at www.chinwoomen.com - we will be updating into a new format soon!

All are welcome to contact us about Mantis Boxing. We also have a lot of members who have lived in China for long time and have a lot of experience and knowledge about coming to China from abroad to live and work - and study kung fu!

[Op108wc]

Shanghai_kid,

Welcome to the forum!


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[Cang Long]

Yes, welcome Shanghai kid,
I believe it was said that Seven Star Mantis Boxing was the style of the Emporer and his family's royal guard, is this true or would it be possible for you to share some of the SSMB history. Thanks

[Shanghai_kid]

Hi.

A lot of clubs have a lot of different history and ideas. There are many stories.

We have two teachers that we really indentify with:

Luo Guang Yu: He was teaching in Shanghai Jing Wu Men after it opened in 1915-6. We follow the style that he standardised when he was teaching.

Fan Xu Dong: He was Luo Guang Yu's teacher in Shandong. Shandong is the area in China where Mantis styles blossomed.

Apart from that, 99% of mantis styles include the 'legend of Wang Lang' in their histories.

You can see a Luo Guang Yu photo set on our website (linked on the first post)

[Cang Long]

Important Announcement:
Our Shanghai public class is now closed to new students. This is effective from the 1st December 2005. The class is still running, but all the places are taken, the class is now full.
http://tanglang.lifehome-china.com/
Well,
Sounds as if they met and exceded their expectations. That's good news for all martial artist interested in opening up a new school sometime in the near future to hear that the enthusiasm for genuine kung fu is alive and well is truly good news. Location location location - What is the best way to determine the chances for success in a particular town, city or area of the two?

[Cynikal Mantis]

Originally posted by Cang Long
Well,
Sounds as if they met and exceded their expectations. That's good news for all martial artist interested in opening up a new school sometime in the near future to hear that the enthusiasm for genuine kung fu is alive and well is truly good news. Location location location - What is the best way to determine the chances for success in a particular town, city or area of the two?

I think the best way would be to probally look to see, what kind of kwoons you have around the area. A traditional shaolin teacher will teach no more than 15 students sometimes exeptions can be made,you can ushually tell a kwoon using the name shaolin because they will be quick to take your money, joining fees, insurance, kit etc. If a genuine kwoon is opened up there will a lot of talk in the comunity. Alot of intrest will be made in the kwoon but only few students will actually remain, as you know kung fu is a life time art and ushually peole see the term kung fu and think of movies and being bruce lee in a month...So what im trying to say is even if there is a genuine kwoon around full or not there will still be intrest and you do get students who have been searching for genuine sifu`s and will be happy to find them..

[Cang Long]

You raise some good points CM I think my particular area is ripe for good teaching because our school is a larger one but more and more people keep joining so its clear that the interest out there excedes the ability of capable teachers at this moment.

[Cynikal Mantis]

Had a look at you home page, your kwoon seems big, how big is it

[Cang Long]

actual footage I am not sure people wise its also hard to say because you never see everyone at the same time. I'll check :)

[Cynikal Mantis]

Cang

How often do you train?