Wing Chun and White Crane masters sharing and finding much in common....
With all the recent talk about WC and White Crane here is an example of sharing quite a few years ago....
Below is written by a White Crane expert Sifu Eric Ling about one of his many sessions with GM Ku Choi Wah.
"Wing Chun Kuen and White Crane. December 9, 2007
1 attack 3 strikes is the law.
1 pull 1 push to disrupt ying yang.
Keep arriving and send outgoing, using your swiftness to devastate.
When the bridging is gone, strike out straight.
Use firmness to beat sloppiness.
3 ying and 3 yang, generate power from changes in stances (waist).
A section of the handwritten “kuen kuit” or “fists poem” from Ku Sifu of Ban Chung Wing Chun.
What is it doing here?
To give you a concept of how Ku Sifu and I compare notes.
Almost all of the above theories are found in the White Crane that I do."
Here Eric describes his school's understanding...
"Take the 2nd line for instance, 1 pull and 1 push is one of our primary principles used to offset opponent balance for control or throwing or to use the old tongue; disrupting opponent’s ying yang.
A technique to demonstrate this push/pull principle. (pics above).
The attacker’s jab is deflected by a “wing hand”. The defender moves in, pushes with the right hand and pulls with the left. This “twist” the spine of the attacker and the defender uses his right elbow to smash down.
Again, like I stated before, to look for connection, we got to go deeper than “common” techniques and look for special markers.
Spending time work together with Ku Sifu is so rewarding; his knowledge, both theoretical and practical, of WCK is really excellent.
Touching hands with him is a total revelation.
So when he advocates that Wing Chun and White Crane could plausibly spring from the same source, I tend to be really swayed….
Posted by eric88ling"
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"Bun Chung WCK – Ku Choy Wah. November 18, 2007
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Master Ku and Ah Thai.
Here’s a man who has devoted most part of his life to the preservation and promotion of his style of kung fu.
In all the 10 plus years that I have known him, he’s still the same steadfast kung fu teacher, oftentimes against adverse conditions, working hard to pass on the arts.
Meet him and he will strike you as someone who is meticulously informed about CKF and having no misgivings at all about sharing what he knows.
Every session I have with him, inevitably, goes into in-depth discussion about evolution and transmission of the arts from mainland to SE Asia. The more I talk to him, the more I realize how passionate this man is when it comes to the arts – simply unbelievable!
Think I am exaggerating? Try this; every time I bump into him, he would have a portable DVD player and a bunch of CKF DVDs, all ready for discussion. It’s either that or he will have documents, books or other handwritten materials on him….
And he is all about his WCK – “Opera Wing Chun” to be exact and his vocation to maintain this line.
A calling that has brought him to Malaysia and China many times to connect and rebuild ties that was broken.
I, for one, really respect his energy.
In Penang, he brought me to “Poon Yue Association” to meet a gentleman who is one of the late GM Cho Onn disciples.
Master Ku received his WCK from a relative first and then went under the wing of GM Cho Onn. Coming to Penang, Cho Onn-chosen home after leaving mainland is like homecoming for Master Ku.
And just before we left Penang, we went to see Ah Thai, Cho Onn’s son-in-law.
Watching these 2 seniors together and hearing them talk about old times – folks, this is exactly the kind of moment that inspires me ……..
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Public video's of GM Ku Choi Wah of Ban Chung Zheng Dan Kam Wing Chun
