I have an old IKF magazine from the late 80s around here somewhere, that broke down the different styles Bruce Lee studied. Hsing Yi was one of them.
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I have an old IKF magazine from the late 80s around here somewhere, that broke down the different styles Bruce Lee studied. Hsing Yi was one of them.
I just ran across this link, Maybe just what you are looking for.
www.yiquan.org.uk/art-pom1.html
Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I was out of town all weekend and did'nt have acsess to the net. The articles I was speaking of were the July/Aug and Sep/Oct of 2001. You might want to ...
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