Originally Posted by
Lokhopkuen
FYI I am an authority on the matter.
I have practiced the style 30 plus years and I have been very attentive to my teacher's instructions.
I have traveled to China and meet Northern Shaolin Masters in PRC, HK, Kowloon. I have met most of the Masters here in the US and i am friendly with the ones in South America.
I did not make any statement towards BSL being any pure anything.
I could give a s h i t as I am one of those who practices everyday rain or shine. s c r e w all the petty little nit pickers and martial politicians and please include yourself right in there in your most convenient configuration.
I simply asked that we speak in a respectful tone toward the memory of Master Ku Yu Cheong who's legacy has elevated all of us who follow his teaching. What difference does it make where or how he died?
What is it to you? Aren't you a Hung Ga exponent or something?Go and diddle about in your own ancestry.
DID YOU READ THE PRESS RELEASE ASSOCIATED WITH HIS MEMORIAL?
It would seem that did not clear it for you so you want to be antagonistic toward me?
False Pride nope, just plain good old American home grown pride, ego? Yea bro I got all that in spades and i am working on it, but at least i am a real person and not some pompous a s s trying to pretend to be something I am not.
<"One lie will muddy the clearest of water and should not be tolerated. there is no excuse for "stories". They only take away from everything else because they begin the ball of inaccuracies rolling.
If you doin't know where you came from, you don't know where you are and worse, you don't know where you're going.
Respect is great and all, but respecting a lie is a fools game.">
What does this muddle minded idiot nonsense have to do with the Bak Siu Lum founder? Only a complete A-hole would write something like that. In case you did not catch it earlier there is no official written history only oral transmission and that is where legend and confusion creep in which again is why i posted the press release. Actually there is a pretty accurate account circulating in the Jing Mo, Wong Jack Man group but i don't think they intended that for public dissemination.
The style is not a creation of KYC, it is his attempt to organize his life's learnings into a TEACHABLE system for inclusion in the curriculum during his tenure as a professor at the Martial institute of Nanjing. The Cha, Shaolin, Wah, Fa, Hung & Tan Tui he practiced are included in a well ordered organized fashion which teaches the practitioner a series of rare martial skill sets unique to the system. It is not some haphazard patch work or random martial reinvention of "Hey dude i created my own style!".
As far as how pure or un-pure of a Shaolin system how the hell would i know? I like what i have seen of the Sung mountain Shaolin. It has a lot of spirit as does our BSL and they are both great methods of personal physical and spiritual cultivation.
i am just a guy who began a sincere study of martial art and was lucky enough to find a real teacher of traditional gung fu. I practiced, learned the history, got the well rounded Northern Shaolin experience and now I show up here just in time to witness your musings of the uninformed kind. You remind me of that jack a s s "Dou Won Chun" on the old Kung Fu Mailing list.
I implied nothing, i spoke very clearly as polite as i know how.
Saying STFU, saying you are not trying to insult and then pick and jab with comments on my lack of character is just plain insulting. My comments here do not devalue the style they are simply my opinion and have no reflection on my teacher or the style i practice.
Is that un-skewed enough for you David Jamieson?