The School in the Netherlands
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Originally Posted by
Leto
Look at this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfziyfEM750
Read the descritpion: "as taught in Indonesia (Bandung) by the Chinese grandmaster Hiang Kuan Teh 香關德 successor of Shi Miao Yue (Sek Miao Guat) 释妙月"
Can that name be a coincidence? Though the forms presented doesn't match any SD, his movements and mannerisms certainly do. Is this a bunch of BS, or a guy with some legit third party information about the lineage? Or someone who's master's name just coincidentally is identical to Sin Kwang The's brother. It seems unlikely that he could have actually learned from Hiang The in Bandung, since he never taught there and left when he was young.
Reference to the school and sifu in the Netherlands has come up before, as a student at the same school Ie Chang Ming taught at, and where both The's went. This is the first time I've seen their material. Other than its not the exact same forms (that SD has shown yet at least), anyone who has done SD for a long time can see the similarities in the material, postures, even common techniques. And of course (other than the patches) the uniform/belt. I thought others even had photos of the Sifu in the Netherlands at the Bandung school. And other than the "grandmaster" part, HKT can't be a coincidence. How many HKT's in CMA could there be originating in Bandung, Indonesia? And who knows what goes on at that school that no one outside of it knows about.
And although HKT also moved to US, he went back more often than ST, and moved back, and stays there more. Could easily have still participated with the school, shared stuff, taught some there, too.
But the existence, material, and professed lineage of the Netherlands' school and is commonalities with SD, seems to clearly indicate, if not prove,at least that:
1. SD-type material, and what others have called the "flavor" of the material and how it is performed and packaged, is not a figment of GMT's imagination -- others do it, too.
2. Unless that school is part of the same "scam" others have accused SD of, it does have origins/roots in Shaolin -- even if influenced by native Indonesian arts (or the other way around). Here's another non-SD school, but from the same origin, saying so.
3. Su Kong was not made up by GMT, this school gives the same lineage, even with the same photo -- right or wrong they both got it from somewhere.
If only those who are really close to GMST would show him this and ask him what he knows about it.