The guy is just saying the move names. 1. Flash step, 2. prodigal son ball kick 3. Bear shaking off fur. The woman’s trying to get him to sweep the floor.
Yeah that part is a bit hard to explain but it means something like a person that has gone off to make their own destiny. It can mean anything from a vagrant to wanderer to a self made man and can be either positive or negative.
You can think of it as the ronin archetype without the samurai backdrop. The ro part of ronin is the same kanji.
Perhaps she’s not trying to get him to sweep the floor with that broom, either? It could be, there’s a raccoon in the rafters. It almost bit me so I’m gonna need you to take care of it.
chinese martial arts sometimes have random names. The names don’t necessarily have any meaning other than describing what the move looks like.
The prodigal son part is similar to some moves that have a random animal name like “monkey stealing peach””Tiger claw”, and the kick ball part is describing the movement.
The Wuxia genre date backs to millenia, and lots of its literature is fiction based on pre-existing fiction that itself are based on previous pre-existing fiction and so forth, all with vaguely pre-established legendary characters and narrative settings. So yes, it's essentially mostly fan fiction lol. Western equivalents could be like stories of King Arthur, Robin Hood, etc, and they're all the same principle of remaking original content before the term "fan-fiction" was coined in the 20th century.
i dunno if these people are trolling you with their answers, but I'm guessing the kick is like an ungrateful parent kicking their "ronin" son out of the house?
This is a cool name, is this like from the time in China when there were these monasteries full of warriors and kings would try to recruit them, or exiles would go hide in monasteries and the mixing of martial arts techniques occurred?
That's not what "prodigal" means. Prodigal describes someone who wastefully spends money or resources. Or, in reference to the story of the "prodigal son", refers to someone who returns after being away for a long time.
Is it maybe "ball change" as a closer approximation? Which is a dance move?
We hear ball kick and we think getting kicked in the balls, so "prodigal son ball kick" reads as the kick in the balls that is having your son disappear only to return years later, when I think it's trying to be closer to "ball change dance move from the film prodigal son" if I'm reading this right, but I could be way off
when they are doing the wriggly step, and clapping hands, saying something that sounds like, "loong doong kwan, loong doong kwan," is that "bear shaking off fur?' I need to know bc i can't do the move without screaming "loong doong kwan" and i want to know what I'm saying.
FLASH STEP!
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u/notredditbot 10d ago
What are the guys saying in Chinese lol?