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Cjurakpt,
Thank you for your very up front and clear answers! :)
As I said my post was not meant to offend, just to ask where you got your authority to speak so definitively on the subject. ...

Ironman wrote:
Great questions, MonkeyKingUSA. It is pretty evident that he knows very little about chi or chi cultivation. Yes we all have chi. It is the life force. Chi Kung is a means to...

cjurakpt wrote:
...if you really understand what qi "is", you realize it's not an objectifiable "thing" - it is a descriptive metaphor for a set of functional interelationships in the body as it...

Iron Tiger,
Though I either know or at least have met all the principle players in the Akron area, I have never had the opportunity to meet Sifu Allen. I hope someday to have that opportunity.
The...

LOL! Yes, that was me. We trained outside of my apartment in the driveway. If you can fall and do ditang (groundfighting) on gravel, you can do it about anywhere.
I have a much nicer set up now...

JDK wrote:
Sifu Shenk was also visited bytwo of Chicoine's Flunkies one night as he was closing up his Store.
They told him to stop calling himself Mr Kung-Fu....or they would beat him up and wreck...

RAF & JDK,
I met Tony in 1986 after I had moved back to Akron. Tony's family was part owners of a restaurant named, The Great Wall. IMHO it was the best Chinese restaurant in the North Canton...

Akron Friends,
It sounds like we need a reunion!:) Anyone that is interested, please let me know.

Kal,
I think their fame stemmed from their ads and the fact that they were offering knowledge...

RAF wrote:
The story goes that when they found Richard, he was hanging in some meditative like pose. I can't remember his name but it might be Marvin---about 5 or 6 years ago he came to our school...

RAF wrote:
"I'll take five punches/kicks to get my one in and that will destroy you!"

Yep, that is the Richard that I knew! :) And the festival incident doesn't surprise me at all.

BTW, two...

Since my buddy Mike opened the box so to speak...:)
According to my past brother-in-law (the Summit Co. deputy sheriff who knew Richard and transported him to prison) Richard's plea bargain for his...

D. Pitts Jr. was a very colorful character. I am surprised at the number of non-martial artists who had heard of him. I only knew him from the Art of Desire studio in Akron off of Brittain Rd.. In...

RAF wrote:
I saw Richard Pitts before he went to prison for the last time---FWIW, he didn't have many pleasant things to say about Chicoine and would even comment on Allen. Richard also told me that...

Was anyone else around when Gene Chicoine's kwoon was a church building and the school was called Hop Sing? That was before the Chicoine/Ong breakup.

In a perfect world...Chicione, Allen, **** Pitts ( deceased), Wayne Shultz, Ed & Don Niam,Dave Shenk , Al Wasil, Bob Kruger and others should have been humble enough to allow Master Ong's son to...

I can't speak for their Tai Tzu performance. I do not know anything about Tai Tzu. I was commenting on whether their posture is up to any Chinese standards.
Since you practice Tai Tzu, I will take...

Well, if you saw the GD tapes, you have now. :)
Mr. Allen was a direct student of Feeman Ong. All the students that I have seen in Master Ong's lineage use the same posture. So, apparently...