extrajoseph
11-20-2002, 02:50 AM
：Fourth generation grandmaster Lun Chee is the most revered elder in Choy Lay Fut martial arts today and even at 92 years old his vivid memory has enabled him to recall events that happened as far back as his childhood days when he first started his martial arts training at age 14 (1924) under his master Tarm Sarm.；
：Being a devout Shaolin Buddhist monk meant that Choy Fook had to be a vegetarian (no meat). At age 96, how could he possibly have the strength, energy, stamina, patience and the inclination to practice martial arts let alone teach (forms, weapons, wooden dummy, fighting skills, chi kung etc.)?!；
These are Sifu Dave Lacey・s words on his webpage. http://www.pantherfist.com/NEWCONTROVERSY3.html
He dismissed the validity of the Chen Family history by focusing on Choy Fook・s age as an exaggeration, yet he is quite happy to praise his own Sigung being alive and active with sound mind at the age of 92 - 4 years difference! He has no appreciation that the Chinese of olden days tended to exaggerate their age and none of them have a birth certificate! If Choy Fook tells Chan Heung he is 96, he is not going to dispute him.
Also Sifu Dave has no appreciation of the different societies and environment they lived in. Choy Fook was a monk living outside of normal society and he meditated and practiced Kung Fu and Qigong all his life with no family, no children, no worldly worries and no sex, of course he will live a longer life and be more active than we would imagine. If Lun Chee lived to 92 and still going strong in hectic places like Hong Kong and Canada, there was a good chance that Choy Fook can lived even longer in the clean and fresh environment of Law Fo Shan Mountain.
Being a vegetarian was a bonus and not some kind of excuse for weak strength and early death made out by Sifu Dave. Obvious, he has not met any healthy vegetarians before and he is a meat eater himself, no wonder he dose not looked so healthy the last time I met him. :D
：Being a devout Shaolin Buddhist monk meant that Choy Fook had to be a vegetarian (no meat). At age 96, how could he possibly have the strength, energy, stamina, patience and the inclination to practice martial arts let alone teach (forms, weapons, wooden dummy, fighting skills, chi kung etc.)?!；
These are Sifu Dave Lacey・s words on his webpage. http://www.pantherfist.com/NEWCONTROVERSY3.html
He dismissed the validity of the Chen Family history by focusing on Choy Fook・s age as an exaggeration, yet he is quite happy to praise his own Sigung being alive and active with sound mind at the age of 92 - 4 years difference! He has no appreciation that the Chinese of olden days tended to exaggerate their age and none of them have a birth certificate! If Choy Fook tells Chan Heung he is 96, he is not going to dispute him.
Also Sifu Dave has no appreciation of the different societies and environment they lived in. Choy Fook was a monk living outside of normal society and he meditated and practiced Kung Fu and Qigong all his life with no family, no children, no worldly worries and no sex, of course he will live a longer life and be more active than we would imagine. If Lun Chee lived to 92 and still going strong in hectic places like Hong Kong and Canada, there was a good chance that Choy Fook can lived even longer in the clean and fresh environment of Law Fo Shan Mountain.
Being a vegetarian was a bonus and not some kind of excuse for weak strength and early death made out by Sifu Dave. Obvious, he has not met any healthy vegetarians before and he is a meat eater himself, no wonder he dose not looked so healthy the last time I met him. :D