Shifu Mark Gin Foon has written a new book with someone.
http://www.shukuangpress.com/index.html
Shifu Mark has a very high hand.
Respect.
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Shifu Mark Gin Foon has written a new book with someone.
http://www.shukuangpress.com/index.html
Shifu Mark has a very high hand.
Respect.
I have his training manuals from "way back when".
Just for the historical value since you really can't get anything from them.
Probably will add this to my collection for the same reason.
Thanks for the heads up Dale :)
GM Mark's book is an excellent read. Great historical sections, and good explanations of some of the technical stuff as well. Some old pics that have never been shown before as well.
go to 1:41 :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sanjuro_ronin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kggix...eature=related
Not sure how to react to that, LOL !Quote:
Originally Posted by TenTigers
"I HAVE READ THIS BOOK!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by sanjuro_ronin
(...did not understand one word.)"
I had the same experience. When I first read it, I did not know any Jook Lum, so I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Then after several years, I knew the specific drills and technique being shown, so all the arrows in different directions, etc. made perfect sense,
only now the manual is no longer necessary. Catch-22.
Hey, it wasn't THAT bad and by that I mean it wasn't as bad as an Indian trying to read Hebrew.Quote:
Originally Posted by TenTigers
In all honesty I don't think those "training manuals" were done for anything other than, perhaps, for his students.
I also have GM Ark Wong's 2 books and the language and writing is just as bad.
May have been how things were done then...
Gung-Fu, like Western Occultism, has this unwritten law-never show to the uninitiated. So they put out information,
but they don't give you everything.
For those who already know, will see what is missing.
Yang Jwing-Ming did the same thing when he wrote his Northern Shaolin book. Many of the pictures in the forms were flopped, causing you to see it from a different angle, pointing a different direction. Although if you read the descriptions, he does use N, S,E,W but you really need to know the form.
So true, which to be honest is not cool but caveat emporium, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by TenTigers
My comment was more direct to the poor use of grammer and "choppy" language than anything else to be honest.
Both in videos and pictures I tend to look for things that people do instinctively and can't hide, rather than what they are showing, know what I mean?
Agreed . In some cases what appears as a loose relaxed hand may be a specific hand shape striking to a very specific target.
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Have you seen that clip of GM Mark demoing a simply "parry to strike" in a seminar?
yeah, that's the kind of stuff I mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by sanjuro_ronin