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Fighting styles of the Five masters.


I know that the Shaw brothers often used real martial arts styles in their filming, often using the Hung Gar system to represent Shaolin fighting styles. In this particular movie that representations are, for four of the five masters, fairly obvious to anyone familiar with Hung Gar. For example the style used by the character Hu Te-Ti that he called the Shaolin Whipping Technique is the Chain Whip form from the Hung Gar system. The Staff form used by Tsai Te-Chung is the Eight Trigrams staff form. The Cross Technique used by Li Shih-Kai is the Five animals and Five elements form and the Tiger and Stork techniques used by Ma Chao-Hsing are, of course the most famous Hung Gar form the Tiger Crane form. That being said the one style I have not been able to identify is the one used by the character called Fang Ta-Hung which, in the film he calls the rolling method. It does not resemble any form I am familiar with in Hung Gar or any other system, nor can I find any from anywhere that is even close. If anyone has any idea what style he is using, or if the style was completely created for the film feel free to message me at [email protected] with the information it would be greatly appreciated.

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