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Don't know about anyone else, but the point I was trying to make originally was not that teachers are perfect, but that it's highly improbable that: given the same source, a book will produce the...

That sheds some light on why they kicked people out of their system for going east and learning those forms. It wouldn't be fitting for the peons to surpass the god-monks, would it?

I read an interesting Bagua article a while ago; it's main takeaway was that if a system doesn't have a concise series of steps which build on each other to create a very specific skill set, then it...

You can find pdf's of the books online and compare for yourself. Can't speak for whatever you might have learned, but I can say they are move for move identical to what the soards taught (or at least...

AFAIK Every Soard seminar included instructor training, so prior to the sexual assault that was: Portland, SF, LA, LV, Alb, Phx, CS, Boise, NY, and I'm probably forgetting a few.



It wasn't...

Years ago at an outdoor seminar, a student offered to let Sharon Soard wear her sunglasses. Her response: "No thank you, they distort the true nature of reality."

I understand what you're saying and of course it's to be expected that different people will have different interpretations of forms. However, what I was attempting to describe is different: at the...

Maybe your other MA experience has allowed you to intuit the correct principles, or maybe the east coast teachers are more thorough, but in my experience with SD, the reason students like Jake...

Judging from the comments of yours I have read over time, you have significantly more years of experience than I do with martial arts in general, and with SD specifically. I am unfamiliar with most...

I'd wager most SD people would say that a lot of what is on the following video is a good representation of SD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81L_RWfRDFs

I don't know any of the people in it,...

I spent some time with him a while back, and I can tell you that he definitely does things his own way. I've personally observed him learn things and immediately begin practicing them differently, so...

I've trained with them, but was never one of their "students".

None of the instructors on the west side were ever very specific with posture names, and even less so with using consistent...

I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't think I've engaged in any deification and/or speaking for GMT. I am engaging in conjecture because GMT has shown himself to be an unreliable source of...

I've seen him carry a conversation with native Spanish speakers, but I actually wonder about his proficiency in Chinese languages. I don't know any Mandarin or anything myself, but I've seen some...

May I ask when and from whom you all learned the 8 animal and/or Dragon Bagua sets?

I learned both forms from David Soard, and he didn't move anything like any of the practicioners in the videos...

I've known a couple of individuals (who started in sd long before I) to mention that the way the "Lo Han" techniques are currently taught is quite different from the days when GMT taught with his...

I second this inquiry. I asked a similar question many pages back: what is the official explanation for the presence of Cheng Manching's Yang Tai Chi form in the Shaolin-Do curriculum? Seeing as it...

Is bigotry one of the "markers" you were referring to? Because I have yet to hear SKT, Jake Mace, or any of their students speak as you just have.

If that's the kind of behavior that can be...

So, the argument thus far is: SKT and/or Jake Mace's claims about the origin of the form they teach should not be believed because they propagate fake kung fu for money, and you know for a fact they...

Hello all,

I know nothing about Bak Mei, but i'd like to learn more. Reading this thread has been very helpful.

Does anyone know anything about this guy? Namely, is this "authentic" bak mei?...

Hello all,

I'm glad this was brought up because I am confused about the inclusion of the CMC form in the SD curriculum. I'm working on reading my way through this thread, but I've only finished...

Hello all,

I apologize for the off-topic post but I don't know where else to put this.

Does anyone have any experience with Master Mingione's school in Indiana? If so please pm me, I am looking...