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Message: <blockquote data-quote="olethros" data-source="post: 579995" data-attributes="member: 1611">Actually I've never seen the tv series.  I've been studying Kung Fu for a few years. (9th Generation from the creator Wong Long N. Praying Mantis Kung Fu).  My statement was based on that "I'd heard", not it is so or this is the rule.  From what I understand the 18 weapons rule is applicable more to northern styles, but not as applicable to souther styles such as Wing Chun.  Since we're talking about HG here, it was my understanding based on reading that several of the early HG people were Shaolin trained so that rule might be applicable to Hg but as I say, it's not a real rule since there are so many exceptions.I've seen the younger Shaolin monks perform before and their level of skill is incredible for their age.   Then whomever wrote that statement was ignorant, but I think I read it in a book on Chinese martial arts that was written in the 60's.  It's very likely that book was inaccurate.  My Sifu has always said that most traditional Kung Fu schools will have at least some weapon training available and that's a good way to weed out the American Kung Fu knockoff school that learned forms from videos and then teach them as canon to their students. (Seen it happen.)</blockquote>