Good to see you back Shihfu
I am going by what William CC Chen said, maybe he had one of those sparse weight classes.....
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@David,
Pretty right on.. I normally spell the second word "Lung" but hey, I get very confused sometimes with the shift to PinYin as I was brought up and educated through the Wade/Giles romanization when learning Mandarin. :confused:
I'm not sure what division William would have fought in.. Heavyweight division was always sparse as I remember (but I'm pretty sure he wasn't a heavyweight). The rest would have been luck of the draw. My divisions, (I started in the 70kg division and gradually moved up as I got older to the 75kg and then the 80kg), were always very heavily saturated.
But still, I would much have preferred if it was not only once per year back then. I liked the trend the United States Kuoshu was ingraining when I was still involved... with the quaterly regionals, then national and international contests. It's better for the fighter's experience.
@Kellen,
David is right. Not really such a divide in my day. There weren't really what you would call "gyms" back then... there was the school. We trained like we fought and fought like we trained and we did it consistently throughout the year. It was just how things were in that era.
I never know what to call my place? A gym? A school? An academy? A facility?
Mo Gwoon / Wu Guan means a building martial arts is practiced in, that's what they are.... but when half the people in the community are doing stuff that has nothing to do with what you do, you distance yourself (at least I did) or you find yourself very lonely....
A few organizations had direct influence upon my current structure and Shen Lung Tang Shou Tao was definitely one of them... well organized TCMA with proper emphasis on the physical training and conditioning, real application and a nice balance of tradition and rational thinking
Ps: Bad gene! Bad bad gene!!