Some of my silat students asked to try a little cross training in Praying Mantis. This is some footage of them learning the first movements of the first form in Shen Fa Society’s Praying Mantis curriculum. I thought it was a good opportunity to show a couple of ways that basics are taught and drilled in the context of learning a form.
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