Originally Posted by
Lama Pai Sifu
I think you may have misunderstood. Chan Tai-San hadn't learned the Lama Pai style until he was beaten for the second time by his teacher. He DIDN'T know the style then. After their fight, THAT is when his teacher decided to teach it to him.
And I'm not sure where you are in your training; but I could learn a form in a day as I am sure many people can. As far as what David Ross had already said; Lama Pai is best learned by someone who already has a lot of experience.
Chan Tai-San had learned several styles and had also learned since he was 8 years old. And although not everyone it terrific after so much time, CTS was an exceptionally skilled person. More so than the average person who trained even longer than him. BUT, I will challenge anyone to find more than one or two people that actually TRAINED in TCMA for as long as he did. He continued to learn and train into his 50's! That's over 40 years of instruction and training. NOT ; learn for a few years, start teaching, then pic up some new info now and then, along the way.
Most of the TCMA teaches in this country, especially the Chinese one's started teaching in the late teens or twenties, and HAVEN'T trained SINCE then. They may be 60 years old now, but it doesn't mean that they had ever peaked. Chan Tai-San Peaked, and then some.
Trained since he was a kid, lived in a buddhist monestary, fought competitively and fought to the death.
Kinda sums it all up, no?