There have been a lot of folks coming from a kung fu forum where they are discussing the USSD version of the snake form. They linked to the page here with the old Villari snake form and passing very harsh (and perhaps deserved) judgement on it. However, with their more recent ‘Shaolin Temple’ push, USSD seems to have replaced it with a more authentic form. It looks like this:
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Two more versions after the jump. I’m going to add one to the ‘Snake Page’ for compare and contrast purposes. Feel free to suggest which one.
And here’s how it looked when the Monks at the temple demonstrated a snake form.
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Ok, the Shaolin Monk’s is the best.
At 4th or 5th degree at USSD, they had a “Snake Fist Form”
That was really from the shaolin temple/shaolin kung fu.
If you can find the form “Snake Fist”, you will see.
it’s kind of like this, but with snake springs (push-ups – literally pushing your body off the ground into another position, repeating those for about 4 or 5 times though.)
The USSD snake form is one that Master Tak Wah Eng created for Steve Demasco. We learned this as the fifth animal form in the kung fu sessions offered at the USSD studios in CT. There is a version of someone doing all the forms together as a warm up exercise on youtube under the name eighteenelbows five animal forms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8omsw7IEG5s
there ya go mate.
All are from master tak, which he just “Made up” at the last minute.He didn’t want anyone learning actual whole forms, unless they were personal students of his, so he taught bits and pieces and glued them all together.
He also taught buddah fist, at a master seminar, which i have, and is one of my favorite forms:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PMpmvyn2s4
tak weh eng is the real deal!
He is a master in northern longfist , fu jow pai, and white crane kungfu.
When done all together, the five make for a long set. Whoever did the Buddha set did a nice job (Sensei Anthony). I’m not hugely taken with the animal forms, though. Not my cup of tea.
It will be hard, but a 7th degree or higher in USSD or Villari’s would have the “Snake fist” form.
I saw Master Ley of USSD perform it at a tournament along time ago, and i hope to one day learn that form!
It has to be the most complex/Dynamic/full of energy type of form with extreme precision i have ever seen!
Those forms don’t look like the Snake Form I learned. There is more rolling on the ground, twisting and such than presented here. It’s not one of my favorite forms since it feels less likely to have good bunkai but whatever.
Matt, thanks for the find.
bryan, can you post your snake form?
The form i am talking about is called”Snakefist”.