👋 I'm perusing the modern landscape of traditional arts, and just don't have folks to chat with. Casually, I'm cross-training my tiger-crane gungfu and compiling my favorite drills and forms. I'm hoping to find fellow, broad-thinkers of any experience who want to compare notes. My kwoon's Discord is pretty quiet, although I do get lessons via video call twice-a-week. I'll lurk for a bit, so I'm not intrusive. 🙂 Any interest, and I'll probably overshare.

@Jimmy Owensby III Great question! It's no specialty of this Texas boy, either. Haha I'll borrow from the Wikipedia page on hung gar, meaning red school/style, which is the umbrella/synonym of tiger-crane, aka fu-hok: "It is best known for its low and stable positions, its powerful attacks mainly developed with the upper limbs, many blocks and also the work of internal energy. ... Hung Gar Kuen is represented in the world in mainly four family branches; Tang Fung, Lam, Chiu and Lau." I'm specifically in the Lam gar, and Lam ChunFai is my teacher's (Sifu) teacher's (Sigong) teacher (DaiSigong). We have few, low kicks, solid stances—which gave me a great base for judo—and forearm focus, aka the bridges. Wing chun is a younger cousin, and styles like Choi Li Fut and Jow gar are descendants in the blended family of CMA.

Yes! I love Rope Flow! If anybody here wants to get it started, I made a playlist to start from zero: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuNnyfYSs9yNGJZ7qfcloEepX1Xw65LIA&si=X_QeDwuJ8aCiq7Gb Looks like I'm in the right place. 😀