I'd like more information on what is "puter kepala," but I'm not sure GMS would disagree with you on some of this "kun tao" description. He was once personally translating some of the text on those...
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I'd like more information on what is "puter kepala," but I'm not sure GMS would disagree with you on some of this "kun tao" description. He was once personally translating some of the text on those...
I think your point might be, assuming what you say is true about the untruths, greed, ego, etc., it means that some or all of his "new" material might not be his stuff, either. I'm not sure that...
Unless you've seen both the YouTube versions of the Shaolin 7 Star fist and the SD Monkey-Tiger/Seven Star Fist, you cannot say what they are much less that one came from the other. Even if they had...
It has been said that GMS picks the material he teaches in some random order from what he knows or has learned, according to what he chooses to teach and when. That's why even the older students...
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If some man (and this is hypothetical--not related to the case at hand or the people involved) lives twenty years of his life as a wife-abusing drug addict, but then...
I know of only two pictures, maybe three ever taken of me and my teachers, and I don't have any of them. Don't think that's just me. I wouldn't put much into the lack of pictures, much less the...
Just speculating, could also be an uncle, cousin, etc., wouldn't have to be father. Or could be unrelated with common last name.
Reference to the school and sifu in the Netherlands has come up before, as a student at the same school Ie Chang Ming taught at, and where both The's went. This is the first time I've seen their...
What makes you say he "didn't realize" what else was in America at the time -- other than what was obvious? I suspect you have no basis for saying that and are guessing. He may have "realized" or...
The point being, it turned out to be a traditional kung fu style (Tiger Crane?) plus Tai Chi. The speaker, now a renowned teacher in Washington DC, specifically made the comment that in those days...
I am amazed how fast a story turned into a war. Sometimes it makes one want to just keep things to themselves. But let me try to clarify as much as possible, before it is exaggerated even more out...
As Old Noob and Bruce and others have said, there are a large number of SD'ers, past and present, who value what they have learned and practice, but also have questions about what it is and where it...
I am by no means a scholar of CMA, but I've always considered that SD taught that TC had origins and connections to Shaolin Temple, and that beginning training in TC started with what SD teaches as...
Its been said his family fled China when "the communist party came to power." Historically PRC founded by Mao in 1949. But the Communists had been fighting for power in China for decades. ...
I'm pretty sure that's not completely accurate. I was attending the Lexington school when all that material was added for the very first time, HT taught the 3 bird forms, and ST taught the 3 WC's,...
I think this is what it really comes down to. You have so many people, all over the country. And starting out from a time that martial arts was so new here, very few in this country knew kung fu...
You know TMNT's are making a comeback.
I had a Ninjitsu practitioner (from Stephen Hayes' llineage) instruct that their technique says, instead of warding or stopping an attack, attack it: strike, punch, etc., that attacking limb to...
I got in a discussion recently with a good friend of mine, who's children went to a school that advertised jujitsu and judo, but really taught only judo. I explained how some schools do that, and...
There is such a thing as mental and emotional toughness, and also human decency. They are not mutually exclusive. JP has shown more than once he has both. You HSK are showing at least in this...
Did it have anything to do with whatever head/face contact rules were in effect? Or maybe an expectation of exercising more restraint against maybe a perceived lesser-skilled opponent? A perception...
Good for you, trying to take a higher road. I read this thread to get insight on martial arts, SD and otherwise. It would be about half as long and take about half as much time to keep up with it...
What then is your explanation for what he taught originally in the 60's, before there was Internet, YouTube, videos or DVD's? Where did that material, modified or original, come from, other than his...
I'm not sure what "gif of the teacher" you are referring to, I must be missing that reference, so I can't comment on it.
But I know that MH was a Bird System master as his specialty, and GMT was...
I don't agree that forms are nothing but "tradition" and have nothing to with with fighting. Didn't the creators of the forms put their fighting techinques in the forms, on purpose? Didn't the...