Talk:Styles of Chinese martial arts

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Contents 1 Needs Sources 2 Demonic styles? 3 Change name to Catagorisations of Chinese martial arts ? 4 Other Categorisations 5 Other questions? or comments?

[edit] Needs Sources

Added above box - great article but it does need sources cited.SmithBlue 07:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I have added sources and inline references so if there are no other questions, I will remove this box. .Ottawakungfu 12:46, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Demonic styles?

Have an associate who describes seeing a demonic style wherein the practitioner believed he was possessed by a "god". The claimed defense in this case was to smear dirt or faeces on the possessed one. But I have no citation for this either. SmithBlue 08:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

There is a style known as "Spirit boxing" with similar attributes but its a minor style. This just shows the variety of styles possible .Ottawakungfu 12:48, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Change name to Catagorisations of Chinese martial arts ?

"Styles of Chinese martial arts" as a title lead me to believe I'd get to read about the different styles. The content looks good but I think the name would be better changed. SmithBlue 22:58, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

There is enough description of styles to justify the name of the article. Look to the list of styles of martial arts to describe each individual style.Ottawakungfu 12:50, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other Categorisations

I also think this is a good article overall. It might be a good idea, however, to point out that the division southern-northern is a generalisation, and not absolute. I practiced white crane (pak hok)for several years. This is generally regarded as a southern style, but has many of the characteristics of northern styles. (Low stances, high kicks and sweeping hand techniques) A description of this style can be found in Chow`s "Kung fu: history, philosophy and technique"

My instructor generally categorised different martial systems based on how the force behind the techniques is generated, calling them soft, soft-hard and hard. I have heard others use this, but have only seen it written down in Yang Jwing-Ming`s book "shaolin white crane qigong".

In his book Yang also claims that Chinese martial systems must contain the four basic techniques: striking, kicking, wrestling and chin-na as well as teaching qigong to be considered a chinese martial system. It seems the author got this from his master, but I am not sure whether this is his masters pov or if there is a consensus for this.

This is the first post I have written in Wikipedia. If I`m out of line or shouldn`t make suggestions like this, please say so. I don`t want to tread on anyones toes. Alex-page 10:35, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

The issue of North-South, Application orientation has been addressed since the comment. I consider the issue as being resolved.Ottawakungfu 12:55, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other questions? or comments?

Leave a note here if you have any other questions or comments on this article. If there are no comments, I will start editing each particular style and make those articles more informative. Ottawakungfu 1:00, 25 October 2007 (UTC)