many thanks for this! I don't have the temperament for martial arts study, but it is very interesting--and of course rather sad and pathetic--to read up on this sort of thing--the historical reality and the modern fraudulent attempt to reproduce it and then claim some sort of faked lineage for it.

I recently saw some drawings of wrestling positions in a book by Nigel Pennick on the Northern Tradition--have of course not the slightest clue where or when the drawings originated, but saw that you've been exploring this in a practical way--again, fascinating for a mere scribbler such as myself to read about.

In Frith,

Shimmer