Forms and fantasy!!

This is a page for forms that people have made up.
Nearly all serious martial artist do this. Few admit to it!!
For me this is an important thing to do. May be as I know so few forms. Who Knows!!
Forms also change. When I was in Yong Chun there is one form which goes in a long line. When you get to the end you turn around and do it again. I asked my teacher if I could put a step in the turn so that when I came back I was doing it on the other side. He had no problem at all with this. He was more interested in my mucle movement than what I was doing.
I would always explain that in the original I learnt it was different in this regard. Just better for me to do both sides.

There are many many reasons to make up forms. But essentially either you want to or you don't. I always have at the rate of about 1 every 2 years
I currently have made up about 8 forms like . Forms 4 and 5 are , unfortunatly, too dificult for me to do and forms 6 and 7 are both unfinished - like a piece of music where you are just not happy with it!!

If you want to give me a form to show - go ahead and I'll pop it in here with some information about it and you.

I will start the ball rolling with 2 of my own:

NB this is a 4 Meg .WAV file and may not play on all computers The first form I made up was my hand set in about 1990. The reason for this was that I was training in a university room and had no space to do my forms. I had left my Hiken Kempo club and wanted to keep my handwork in order - so nothing clever going on here! Interestingly if you perform this form 20 times whilst consuming whisky there will come a point where you forget you have no girlfriend.

Ze ji means 'My own'. This is Ze Ji 1. I made it up in about 1992 to try to incorporate some of the many techniques from the Kempo - except I had started to do Wing Chun at this time. ( hence the opening which is a mix of Wing Chun and a Kempo technique called Charging Ram.)

I have split it into 2 parts here (about 2 Meg each) because Clare ( my long suffering girfreind ) had to move the camera.

It turns out that the Kempo I learnt (Ed Parkers) was very chinese. So what you have here is a young karate students interpretation of kempo with a Wing Chun orientation. looks sort of crane ish without the deeper energy work don't you think!!