Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu
September 2006
Lai Ho Ma and hello to all,
For those that are new to the site, welcome to tonglong.co.uk and to the regular visitors thank you for visiting and I hope you are enjoying the site and its latest updates and additions.
This is the first newsletter I am sending out but it is not going to be a regular newsletter and I dont intend to fill up your inboxes or be labelled as spam ;)! Rather I will send updates when necessary or notify you all of relevant news or updates you might all be interested in.
Video Clips and Articles
Currently the site has 70 southern mantis kung fu video clips and 37 articlesrelated to Southern Praying Mantis! This will continue to grow as I search and create/upload new content that I can get my hands on. I am always looking for new stuff to share so if anyone would like to contribute feel free to contact me. The content I place online is content that has been available to the public beforehand (i.e. public demos, youtube, google video) and those that I have recieved permission for prior to sharing online.
The articles and video clips are free to access and provide a means for comparing and seeing the similarities in the Hakka southern praying mantis family systems. The latest articles this month are:-
Devil in the Details Series of articles from Shen Martial Arts. This article is on the Phoenix Eye Punch
of Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu.
http://www.tonglong.co.uk/index.php?categoryid=9&p2_articleid=50
Devil in the Details Series of articles from Shen Martial Arts. This article is on the Sorm Bo Jin Form of
Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu.
http://www.tonglong.co.uk/index.php?categoryid=9&p2_articleid=49
Discussion Forum
There is an open Southern Praying Mantis discussion forum (http://www.tonglong.co.uk/forum/) which has grown to include a 4889 posts and 226 registered users ranging from masters and students of chow gar, chu gar, jook lum, iron ox and many more in different parts of the world. If you havent already joined please do sign up and join the discussion, ask questions and share your training experiences.
Training Blog
http://www.tonglong.co.uk/southernprayingmantis/blog/
I have been experimenting with craeting a training blog and recieved some good feedback. This is a blog (online diary) with which I hope that some of us southern praying mantis kung fu practitioners can log the type of training we have done on any particular day, any good / bad training days, thoughts, ideas etc. It could turn into our own blogging community.
If anyone would like to write up their martial art training let me know and an account can be set up and you can start logging your training and sharing your thoughts. It may also be useful for you in the long run to read back.
Chow Gar Hakka Southern Praying Mantis kung fu UK (official site)
http://www.chowgarsouthernmantis.com/
Sifu Paul Whitrod has launched an official Chow Gar Hakka Southern Praying Mantis kung fu website which includes news, information, events, seminar information and in the near future very old articles on Chow Gar Mantis. Visit the site regularly for updates. The most recent updates include information on the chow gar fighting skills and san sau:
http://www.chowgarsouthernmantis.com/fightingskills.php
Long Staff fighting competition
The 1st ever full contact staff competition has taken place, producing some fantastic fights of the evening, this event was hosted at Paul Whitrod's school on the 20th of August. In its course 3 poles were broken and some real hard fights had taken place.
http://www.chowgarsouthernmantis.com/staffcompresults.php
The next competition is set to take place in February. Visit the site for more information on entering.
Support tonglong.co.uk
Currently the site is free to use (and will remain so) which includes access to monthly updated video clips, articles, information, discussion forum, links and images. This site has been created to benefit as much as possible the Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu community aswell as those interested in the art.
If you would like to support www.tonglong.co.uk you can do so by making a donation via PayPal ( to tonglong.co.uk@gmail.com or using the Support Page - http://www.tonglong.co.uk/index.php?categoryid=133.
Whenever possible please use the links from here to make purchases on amazon, yesasia.com, martials arts mart etc as it provides a means of running the site.
It would also be great if you could all visit/click the google ad links on this site as much as possible - it all supports the site to keep it running.
Southern Mantis Meet Ups
Every month or so on the last sunday we try to organise a meet up where students of Southern Praying Mantis (and other arts welcome) can train together, spar and share training and techniques and than go out to eat and talk kung fu (its in London UK only unfortunately). It is a very enjoyable meeting and there has been a nice turn out and success with this and we hope to keep it going and growing.
All are welcome and I hope we see new faces in the coming months. Information on these meet ups can be found on the forum (http://www.tonglong.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=14 or through replying to me on this email
Thanks and train hard...