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- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Gung-Fu
- Message-ID: <76003@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:31:13 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.043007.22920@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> <BSIMON.92Dec30121059@elvis.stsci.edu>
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- In article <BSIMON.92Dec30121059@elvis.stsci.edu> bsimon@elvis.stsci.edu (Bernie Simon) writes:
- >All the external styles of Kung Fu are derived from Shaolin, so the
- >fact that a school teaches Shaolin Chuan-Fa doesn't tell much about
- >what is actually taught.
-
- This claim is probably at least an exaggeration. Shuai Chiao,
- for example, is arguably older than the Shaolin Temple. In any
- case, there seems to be very good evidence that Chinese
- martial arts in general are older than the Shaolin Temple,
- (but that the 'three sister' internal arts are not). In addition,
- it also seems fairly clear that the Shaolin Temple repeatedly
- adopted arts developed outside it.
-
- Aside from all this, there are numerous Shaolin arts, and arts
- derived in one way or another from Shaolin arts, and 'chuan fa'
- just means 'boxing discipline', so your point stands: 'Shaolin
- Chuan Fa' doesn't tell you much if anything about what is
- being taught.
-