starting late with ymaa, need a book

[blackrabbit]

Hi all,
I'm new to this forum and to YMAA school as well. My name is Paul, I'm from west part of Poland(Europe).
I've recently started going to Kung Fu classes at our local YMAA school. I'm attending them for 4 weeks now (started in May), however the beginner class (that I'm attending) started in September. So as you can imagine the entire group is a little bit ahead of me. I was thinking about buying dr Yang's book about White Crane and Long Fist to better and faster equal my level with the group and also have the ability to train on my own, get into the details, read about everything that I might had not notice during the traing.

Now (from what I saw on amazon.co.uk) there are few books and dvd's. Some of them are new some of them are older. Can anyone of you could guide me and help me buying a proper book? Or maybe should it be just DVD? As I said I'm looking for something that would teach me all the stances, kicks punches, form etc. let me better understand both styles long fist, white crane) - sort of help me with my start. Something I can come back to , some exercises maybe . Everything that new beginner should now and read (watch?) about.

Paul Szulc a.k.a blackrabbit

[darth_freak]

well the long fist book may be sort of useful but not to be trsuted at 100% since it's kind of old. Otherwise the DVD with Basic Shaolin Long Fist stuff is rather good. Every LF stances, a lot of hand techniques and almost every kicks. Then the white crane DVD is good for all hand forms and stances. The white crane book is 80% a qigong book and 20% for advanced practioners.

But on the other hand, it's not such a problem that the others in your class knows "more". You'll catch up eventually. No one can't start at the same time. So you can't really say you're late. Try to grab basic punches and stances from some one advance and work that home. I don't know how they work there but everything should be seen once awhile.

[blackrabbit]

well the long fist book may be sort of useful but not to be trsuted at 100% since it's kind of old.

you mean this one right? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shaolin-Unique- ... 066&sr=1-2

Otherwise the DVD with Basic Shaolin Long Fist stuff is rather good. Every LF stances, a lot of hand techniques and almost every kicks.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shaolin-Long-Fi ... 179&sr=1-1 this one?

Then the white crane DVD is good for all hand forms and stances. The white crane book is 80% a qigong book and 20% for advanced practioners.

Are you talking about this dvd: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shaolin-White-C ... 221&sr=1-3

What about this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Essence-Shaolin ... 66&sr=1-10

But on the other hand, it's not such a problem that the others in your class knows "more". You'll catch up eventually. No one can't start at the same time. So you can't really say you're late. Try to grab basic punches and stances from some one advance and work that home. I don't know how they work there but everything should be seen once awhile.

thx much ur advice

paul

[darth_freak]

lol
yes, that long fist book.

Not that LF DVD. I was talking about this one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shaolin-Kung-Fu ... 551&sr=1-2
The one you mention isn't too bad but it's a bit old. So if you got the book it should be enough because you have classes. The main interest of the DVD you mentioned is for the applications of Lian Bu and Gong Li and for the 12 Tan Tui if you want to learn them all.

yep that White Crane DVD.
As I said, the book is mainly a qigong book. White Crane qigong can be quite important for white crane training but it takes a lot of time (30min to 2h). At the end of the book, different jing are shown but I still don't quite understand that part...