Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu Training Diary / Blog

Training involved racing and breaking a demolition brick cleaning LEGEND! Mwahaha manage to break him into submission in the heat. Glorious moment for us in our trade. I got MUNDO respect on the site and many to come!!! Got the blisters to prove it grrrrr!!!

Qi gong exercises, went through forms, weapons play and physical training (YES AFTER WORK)  AND who said masks??? sounds like a health and safety officer lol! Lord best to stay in your dust free environment mate lol would never hear the end of that although it is a health and safety issue.

Fellow southern mantis peeps. Here are the few benefits i get at work! Getting paid to work out my reflexes, endurance coordination and timing.

Thats why masters of old could go home and just train forms and techniques cause if you were in a trade that involved heavy labour that helps build a unique skill or strength, like butchers, carpenters, builders, stone sculptors and the like!

Done 4000 bricks onto pallets today plus i cleaned aprox 2000 bricks at work.

Tonite

finger training, chi kung and my form work.

I train in dit ngau tong long pai. And my training methods are very different to others in schools etc. This is because i have the privilege and honour to train one on one with my sifu in his home. So if they are differences in view this maybe the first reason. Im being taught to make the kungfu my own and not to be a carbon copy of my sifu as he refuses to spoon feed me and lets/makes me find my own path. A typical training day for me starts:

This is yesterday ( 13/07/06)

5am - chi kung exercises , stretching, xing yi forms and Stance work.

6pm - Worked on specific techniques and dissected my forms. Footwork, bag work and resistance training

Hopefully ive managed to do so but ive added a video clip of what my work involves. So i dont have to play catch up or have a lot to focus on as far as power and endurance training goes.

Greetings all! Welcome to my world, alot of approaches some my find old, non progressive, ancient, waste of time or too tasking. But i am and have no problem proving some of the stuff i do practise, within reason.

Thanks to Nish for giving me this opportunity to show how we train in Ermei Dit Ngau under my Sifu Sean. I am siu dit ngau (ydn) 2nd year training in dit ngau and am a beginner in the system.