Cloud Fishing by vice
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The original cloud fisher is attributed to a monk named Ah Dah-Ja, also sometimes known as the "Jai Dah Lama". Ah Dah-Ja was born in 2426 and was a member of a nomadic tribe that traveled throughout New Tibet and Sha-Qinghai. He was an active young man who practiced birdriding, wrestling (Shuai-Jiao) and a special type of joint-locking (seizing and controlling skill). After being ordained as a monk in old Tibet, he also learned a martial art that was apparently unknown in origin.
For several years Ah Dah-Ja retreated to the mountains to live in seclusion, studying ancient Buddhist Kung fu scrolls and practicing meditation. He also hoped to improve his fishing skill. One day Ah Dah-Ja's meditation was disturbed by a loud sound. He left the cave he had been meditating in to investigate and found an ape trying to capture a crane. He was astonished. Despite the ape's great size and strength, the crane eluded the great swings and pecked at soft, vital points. Ah Dah-Ja was inspired to create a new martial art.
Ah Dah-Ja created a style that mimicked the deft evasion and vital point striking of the white crane and the ape's powerful swings and grabbing techniques. It was based upon the number eight, an important number in Chinese cosmology and numerology. The fundamental fighting theory was known as the "eight character true essence". The "eight character true essence" can be roughly translated as "strike the place that has a pulse, never a place that has no pulse, and stretch the arms out while keeping the body away."
"Training to be a master fisher from the mountain top
to the river below, he wears the mask of shame...util he is able to catch a fish from lowest cliff to the river just 2200 feet".
Comments (24)
lizzibell
Nice work...
aLDOS
Magic image, magic history! Great work! Bravo!!!
DangerousThing
I like both the image and the story.
velasco
Estupendo diseño, muy bien construido
magnus073
Super work on this one, he's really cool
MKeyes
Hmmmm, this is different, I'm gonna have to enlarge it to get the best viewpoint, love the lighting and shadow, once more - it's cool to see you playing with M4 a while!
Karth
Wow..cant believe what you have done with the kilt and cape. Fullsizeview rocks g Great Artwork !
JSGraphics
Awesome! What can I say, but Awesome! Glad you liked Chad.
CrownPrince
Is this based on anything in RL? The character and setting is wonderful!
zaigodou
Excellent!!!!
45Cool
To cool!
zhaanman
Out-Standing background story and image Truly Electric in detail and style very cool!!!!
Raddar
Thats just about as cool as cool gets. Great work.
HADCANCER
Love the detail, Merry Christmas!
OrphanedSoul
A fantastic story and bit of art, Bravo!
supercope
That's a wonderful image. Really engaging!
BIGBEAR1965
Cool image and story!
Tracesl
excellent and wonderfully done, great story and image
densa
wonderful scene
1358
very interesting history... stellar image!
ontar1
Fantastic scene and character, fantastic story, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mikeerson
ah, yet another one I missed... damn I'm horrible. I've got about 200 favorite artists - no way can I keep up with them all anymore... You're amongs the top of the top, so I look for your name and it amazes me I've missed maybe 4 uploads in the last couple months... excellent story .... Is he ever going to remove his mask of shame???
swjkie100
Wow, I like! Fantastic outfit!
shalock
Nice outfit, outstanding composition, love the scene!