New Book by Shifu Mark Gin Foon

[Dale Dugas]

Shifu Mark Gin Foon has written a new book with someone.

http://www.shukuangpress.com/index.html

Shifu Mark has a very high hand.

Respect.

[sanjuro_ronin]

I have his training manuals from "way back when".
Just for the historical value since you really can't get anything from them.
Probably will add this to my collection for the same reason.
Thanks for the heads up Dale :)

[TenTigers]

GM Mark's book is an excellent read. Great historical sections, and good explanations of some of the technical stuff as well. Some old pics that have never been shown before as well.

[TenTigers]

I have his training manuals from "way back when".
Just for the historical value since you really can't get anything from them.
:)

go to 1:41 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kggixlEHzfE&feature=related

[sanjuro_ronin]

go to 1:41 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kggixlEHzfE&feature=related

Not sure how to react to that, LOL !

[TenTigers]

Not sure how to react to that, LOL !

"I HAVE READ THIS BOOK!!!
(...did not understand one word.)"

I had the same experience. When I first read it, I did not know any Jook Lum, so I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Then after several years, I knew the specific drills and technique being shown, so all the arrows in different directions, etc. made perfect sense,
only now the manual is no longer necessary. Catch-22.

[sanjuro_ronin]

"I HAVE READ THIS BOOK!!!
(...did not understand one word.)"

Hey, it wasn't THAT bad and by that I mean it wasn't as bad as an Indian trying to read Hebrew.
In all honesty I don't think those "training manuals" were done for anything other than, perhaps, for his students.
I also have GM Ark Wong's 2 books and the language and writing is just as bad.
May have been how things were done then...

[TenTigers]

Gung-Fu, like Western Occultism, has this unwritten law-never show to the uninitiated. So they put out information,
but they don't give you everything.
For those who already know, will see what is missing.

Yang Jwing-Ming did the same thing when he wrote his Northern Shaolin book. Many of the pictures in the forms were flopped, causing you to see it from a different angle, pointing a different direction. Although if you read the descriptions, he does use N, S,E,W but you really need to know the form.

[sanjuro_ronin]

Gung-Fu, like Western Occultism, has this unwritten law-never show to the uninitiated. So they put out information,
but they don't give you everything.
For those who already know, will see what is missing.

Yang Jwing-Ming did the same thing when he wrote his Northern Shaolin book. Many of the pictures in the forms were flopped, causing you to see it from a different angle, pointing a different direction. Although if you read the descriptions, he does use N, S,E,W but you really need to know the form.

So true, which to be honest is not cool but caveat emporium, right?
My comment was more direct to the poor use of grammer and "choppy" language than anything else to be honest.
Both in videos and pictures I tend to look for things that people do instinctively and can't hide, rather than what they are showing, know what I mean?

[TenTigers]

Agreed . In some cases what appears as a loose relaxed hand may be a specific hand shape striking to a very specific target.
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[sanjuro_ronin]

Have you seen that clip of GM Mark demoing a simply "parry to strike" in a seminar?

[TenTigers]

Have you seen that clip of GM Mark demoing a simply "parry to strike" in a seminar?
yeah, that's the kind of stuff I mean.