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My Sifu Lo Man Kam corroborates that. In an interview with Inside Kung Fu back in the 90s, he said,

"At that time in Hong Kong, food was very cheap, 1 HK dollar could buy snacks for six people....

Is your source John DiVirgilio? He told me that Yip Bo Ching's sword set was the same as Wong Shun-Leung's set.

And it's been a while since I've seen Duncan Leung's sword set, but I remember it...

Did Yip Bo Ching start that late? I've always heard he was the last one to take up Wong Shun-Leung's challenge, which was around 1954?

Yip Bo Ching apparently left copious notes, though I forgot...

My Sifu has said Ip Wah has good Wing Chun.

I just replaced my wall-mounted dummy with a Great Lion Free-stander. It does not have as much play as a wall-mounter, but still works nicely. You can unlock the wheels and chase it around, too.
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Sifu Ken and Sifu Ben are both amazing. I was particularly impressed by Sifu Ben's students' combination of mobility and rootedness, as well as their soft hands.

Our Deepest Condolences.

John Kang

A couple of years ago, I swore I would never get into a technical discussion online again, but here I go... :P

In our SLT, we have three different Tan Saos. The one you refer to is in section...

He's explaining that the trajectory of the Tan Sao (specifically, from section 3 of Siu Lum Tao) crosses over the center line. Contrary to chasing hands, he is actually covering a large area so that...

As the video poster, I will be the first to say that I am in agreement with what most of the people are saying here: it wouldn't work in a ring fight or a street fight.

It's just a performance...

I have the interesting experience of learning Wing Chun at Sifu Lo Man Kam's school in Taipei, where Sifu Lo (native Cantonese speaker) was always yelling the Cantonese terms at us non-locals, while...

I visited Wang Zhiping in Beijing last year. Make sure you have a cell phone to call a taxi, because his school is in the last unpaved part of Beijing (not literally, of course, I'm sure there are...

Yes, making your own jow will definitely be much less expensive than buying the pre-made stuff. Nothing in that e-bay formula pops out as being particularly expensive.

I would hazard to guess that a lot of the negativity toward the Ip brothers comes not from anything they have said or done; but is based on the actions of some of their students who continually...

RGV:

Do you not see the irony in some of your statements? You say that Sifu Kwok's purpose in creating these videos was to standardize the forms to be exactly the way that Yip Man did them. Yet,...

Sifu Bradley Temple is one of my best friends from our days at Sifu Lo's school. We were there pretty much the exact same time: He started a couple months before I did, and I left Taiwan several...

Dude, this is at least the second time that you've mentioned this in a thread about Sifu Lo. Is it THAT important to you to spread hearsay?

There are rumors about most of Yip Man's students; but...

While I personally don't really think it matters WHO learned first or third or twenty-third, I'm pretty sure from talking to the HK elders that Sifu Lo started about the same time as Yip Bo-Ching,...

While I'm certainly no authority on Sifu Lo Man Kam's interpretation of Wing Chun, I'd like to put my 2 cents in:

I've never seen this National Geographic segment... That's a pretty old video, I'm...

That is Bruce Cheng. He is Sifu Lo's first student (well, Chien Yen in Japan says HE is the first, but we all called Bruce "Da-Shi-Xiong"). He had a background in Western boxing and judo before...

I would highly recommend Sifu Gorden Lu in Virginia Beach (http://www.gordenlu.com).

To my understanding, he knows two complete systems which are very different: short-bridge approach from his...

This may sound ridiculous, but I find that lying on your back and doing poon sao is helpful. It creates a downward resistance which, when you are lying on your back, translates to development of...

I wonder if historically, our Wing Chun ancestors were so dogmatic about whether someone's stance was 50-50, 60-40, 70-30, or whatever?

If we are to believe Wing Chun was mean to be a practical...

I think my first post incorporates question 2 and 3, but to expound on 3:

An opponent's power can come from different directions, and there are different solutions based on circumstance.

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I haven't posted in ages, but this topic is one that interests me.

Name: John Kang

Art(s): My primary Wing Chun lineage is from Sifu Lo Man Kam, but I have been heavily influenced by the...