Martial Arts Gathering 2007.
Hi everybody,
Want to take this opportunity here to announce an event scheduled to take place in Kuching Sarawak September 2007.
This is a Sarawak Tourism Ministry endorsed event to showcase traditional fighting arts called Martial Arts Gathering 2007 or MAG2007 in short.
In a nutshell this event:-
• Will bring together some of the rarest Kung Fu and Silats still in existence in SE Asia. There is a certain urgency to bring attention and preserve them before they disappear totally into oblivion. We have been working hard in locating and convincing many of the old Masters to participate in this event. (I posted clips in Wu Lin I Jia thread describing some of these art forms).
• Provide all participants an exceptional opportunity to interact and learn from these Masters, many of them breaking with traditions to work with us in this respect.
• Congregate all those passionate about traditional MAs to work together to look for answers to question regarding histories, theories and principles of traditional fighting systems.
Besides local Masters, we have also invited Masters and friends from around the world to come and share their research and experience.
In fact, Gene Ching (Kung Fu magazine) is one of our invited guests for this event. Presently, I am working out the details of Gene and Kung Fu Magazine’s involvement. At the very least, Kung Fu Magazine will be the exclusive magazine to cover activities leading up to and the event itself.
We also have, more or less, confirmed the attendance of:-
• Sifu Liu Chang I, Feeding Crane Taiwan.
• Russ Smith and his Sensei , Okinawa Goju Ryu.
• Evert Van De Meulen , Hungga.
• Martin Watts and his Yong Chun White Crane family.
I am hoping to hear Robert Hui (Mantis108) confirmation soon.
Besides the above folks, we have arranged for a good assortment of Masters from Singapore, East and West Malaysia spanning a variety of styles to come and share their skills.
Again I want to highlight that this is more than a demonstration of traditional MAs.
Spread over 3 days, the central concept is to get all to “touch hands”.
Please treat this as an invitation to come visit Sarawak and play this September.
I am preparing a dedicated website to provide all the details.
Warmest Regards.
Eric
We're excited about the possibilities here
From what Eric has shared with me so far, this looks like it'll be a remarkable event. I'm hoping that it all works out so I can attend.
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Hasayfu, i believe you are referring to Pok Khek which is the name of a system founded by Master Nip who came over to Malaysia from Hong Kong. It is basically a system that revolves around the training of San Sik and emphasizes a lot on use of weights to train power and speed. Other training includes iron arm conditioning, use of dummy, etc. Pok Khek is a long range system and has a reputation as a tournament style.
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Hi FunkySage, spot on man. Pok Khek was very popular in Ipoh and I heard it even made it as far south as Johor as one of my friend's uncle taught there.
Nowadays its hard to see anyone practicing it. The founder, Master Nip, came from Bak Sing Choy Li Fut background but investigated a lot of fighting styles. Thus you can see the techniques of Lama Crane and Choy Li Fut techniques in the syllabus.
Master Nip also authored a book on Yang style taiji and sometimes his disciples refer to Pok Khek as Tai Chi San Shou! because you can also find taiji techniques inside Pok Khek.
There is a book on Master Nip's taiji written by a Singapore author. Its a slim green color book. There is also a draft manuscript on the Pok Khek system which was not published.
A long time ago I think it was Black Belt magazine had an article on Pok Khek and there is also a listing in the martial arts encyclopaedia by Farkas and Corcoran.
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you're right cannonball :-) one of my seniors used the charp chui in tournament and came in first. there was also an incident involving a TKD "ambassador" from Korea which resulted in him being recalled after being decked by the sau chui. the police was called in and my teacher hauled up for questioning. but that was a long time ago. there is also a derivative of pok khek called chik khek in which the founded added in karate techniques :-) i remember seeing a tournament where the top 3 fighters were from the pok khek and chik khek schools - this would be in the early 80s.