Lin's Karate
Originally Posted by
bodhi warrior
I just watched "the black kung fu experience" on PBS. It offered some good insight. But there was one part that caught my attention. One of the guys was looking for a martial arts school when he was younger. He found a school named Lin's karate. He said back in the '60's no one knew what kung fu was. Same thing Sin The' did. Lol
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 no one ever heard of kung fu so everyone called all martial arts "karate."
And later, the same guy renamed his school, "Shaolin Wu Shu."
Just One Student
"I seek, not to know all the answers, but to understand the questions." --- Kwai Chang Caine
(I'd really like to know all the answers, too, but understanding the questions, like most of my martial arts practice, is a more realistically attainable goal)