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The Sabah Kungfu Show March 2007 -- Part 16
By the courtesy of Ogingo Videography, Sabah, Malaysia

OBJECTIVES OF FORM TRAINING IN SOLO

Shaolin Kung Fu Show in Sabah
Sifu Jamie Robson leads the class in solo form training during the Sabah Intensive Shaolin Kungfu Course

Form training in solo is an important aspect in kungfu training. In fact, that is what masters normally do. However, most kungfu practitioners today do not realize the meaning or objectives in solo form training. They practice their forms almost solely for demonstration.

Pleasing spectators, of course, was never an objective of form training in the past. In genuine, traditional kungfu, solo form training accomplishes the following objectives

This video series show how participants at the Sabah Intensive Shaolin Kungfu Course of March 2007 accomplish some of these objectives in solo form training.



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“Shaolin Forceful and Fast, Yet Not Tired or Panting for Breath

Grandmaster Wong demonstrates the initiator’s mode of Sequence 5. When you forms are correct, you should back up your forms with force. The force comes from flowing chi, and not from muscular tension. Hence, you can be forceful and fast, yet not tired or panting for breath.
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“Shaolin The Skills of Form, Force and Speed

Here Grandmaster Wong demonstrates the responder’s mode of Sequence 5. First your forms should be picture-perfect. Next they should have force. Then they should be performed with speed. Practicing the sequence in solo is a good way to accomplish these important skills of correct form, force and speed.
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“Shaolin Practice Shaolin Kungfu, Not Opium Smoking

Grandmaster Wong gives an example of what you should avoid in your practice, i.e. performing your forms incorrectly, without force and without presence of mind. This is jokingly called “opium smoking”. Each time you practice, your movement should be a master-piece, so that if you have practiced for three years, you have benefited for three years – not that you have conditioned yourself to bad habits for three years.
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“Shaolin Power from Internal Force, Not Muscular Strength

Grandmaster Wong emphasizes that there must be power in your movements. The power comes from internal force and not muscular strength. Here he shows how internal force is exploded from the dan tian in a punch and in a palm interception. If there is not sufficient force, Grandmaster Wong explains, the attacker’s sweeping attack will break through the defence.
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“Shaolin Smooth Flow of Movements

Sifu Jamie Robson leads the class in practicing Combat Sequences 5 and 6. The patterns in a sequence are not performed individually, but continuous as a sequence. The emphasis is not on speed, but on smooth flow of movements. The forms must, of course, be picture-perfect. If they are not picture-perfect, the student should go back one step to practice the sequences pattern by pattern instead of as sequences.
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“Shaolin Completed in One Breath

Sifu Jamie Robson leads the class in practicing Combat Sequences 7 and 8. Once a sequence begins, it continues smoothly to its completion without any pause in between. The whole sequence is performed in one breath, known in Chinese as “yeit hei hors eng” (Cantonese), or “yi qi ke cheng” (Mandarin). The practitioner must, of course, be very familiar with both the forms and their order of performance. Otherwise, he would have to go back one step to practice the sequences pattern by pattern.
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“Shaolin Linking Sequences to Form Set

The four combat sequences, Sequences 5 to 8, are linked together to form a set. It is presented here in two parts for easy downloading. In performing the set, there is no break between the first part shown here and the second part shown in the following video clip. Each initiator’s or responder’s mode of a sequence is completed in one breath. The emphasis here is on correctness of form, force and fluidity of movement. There is no necessity at this stage to be fast. Speed will automatically be accomplished when the movements are smooth and when unnecessary pauses are eliminated.
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“Shaolin No Change in the Appearance of the Performer’s Face

This is the second part of the set formed by linking the Combat Sequences 5 to 8. The first part shown in the previous video clip and the second part shown here should be performed continuously. This set is called “Fierce Tiger Speeds Through Valley”, after the most popular pattern in the set. The first sequence of this set, Combat Sequence 5, is also called by the same name. Hence, “Fierce Tiger Speeds Through Valley” may refer to a pattern, a sequence or a set. At the completion of performing a set, the practitioner should not be tired or out of breath, described poetic in Chinese as “mien pat koi young” (Cantonese), or “nian bu kai young”, which literally means “there is no change in the appearance of the performer’s face”.
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We wish to thank Mr Godfery Kissey of Ogingo Videography, Penampang, Sabah, Malaysia for kindly provideing us with the videos. (Godfery is also a member of our Shaolin Wahnam Family.) His telephone number is 60-88-731788, and e-mail address is godfery@pc.jaring.my.

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