I recently got to go as a guest teacher at another school that focuses on Jow Ga Kung Fu. Now, I like learning new Kung Fu styles, and have mostly focused on the Northern Chinese styles, which tend to be more holistic than the Shao Lin styles from the south. Since its discourteous to show up at a school as a know it all about your own style, without learning the style they use to highlight points of similarity, I asked if I could come in for a couple of private workouts first. Their sensei, Pete Schildt, was kind enough to let me observe a couple of classes.
First, like Id suspected from watching the class work out, Jow Ga is an amalgamation of a couple of different Southern styles the Southern style punches are a dead giveaway, as theyre less fluid, and faster than the Northern styles Im used to. The stance is a bit lower than is typical for Shao Lin styles, and the footwork is a bit more defensive, and much more familiar to me than I was expecting it to be. The defenses, like most of the Southern martial arts styles, are more rudimentary than those taught in the North.
Anyway, Jow Ga Kung Fu got its start in China in the first part of the 20th century,...
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