As a beginner student in CMC's school in NYC in 1969-70, I saw him and his senior students practicing this 2-person thing with wooden swords. I never got into that because I was a newbie, but while...
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As a beginner student in CMC's school in NYC in 1969-70, I saw him and his senior students practicing this 2-person thing with wooden swords. I never got into that because I was a newbie, but while...
I am a long-time student of the late Master Yu Cheng-Hsiang of NYC. To "pay forward" at least some of what I owe him, I am holding an informal seminar based on his teachings on Saturday mornings at...
Taking this up seriously is akin to beginning to play a musical instrument or learn a new language. Do not waste your time if you are the sort of person who does such things casually and then lets...
When I visited the Shaolin Temple in 2001, there were 100s of kids -- all boys as far as I could tell -- spread out on the plain in front of the temple being taught in groups of 12-18 hard style...
Master Wang was a great man. He came to the US in the early 90s and paid a visit to NYC where he met with my teacher Yu Cheng Hsiang and his class. He spent 19 years in prison in China because he...
I studied at Master Cheng's school in NYC in the 1970s and practiced that form for a number of years. I have come to believe, based on my work with a former student of Master Cheng's, Yu...
I started out studying briefly with William in NYC in 1968 and then went to Cheng Man-Ching's school on the Bowery for about a year before he went back to Taiwan. Did some things with other people,...