Chan Tai San stories

[lkfmdc]

Here's a blast from the past, about 19 years ago to be exact.

Sifus Dave Ross and Michael Parrella

there's a fine example of how even "way back then" we were focussed on fighting and sparring technique

(I swear Mike photoshoped in that bad mustache on me, I never wore one of those LOL)

[lkfmdc]

Here's an old one of Dave, I bet he doesn't even have this one anymore. It's from the mid 80's. I'm guessing he's about 17/18 years old here.

Dave Ross

I am 17 in that pic (which explains the dinosaurs in the background)

WOW, that is an OLD pic

[cjurakpt]

I am 17 in that pic (which explains the dinosaurs in the background)

I thought that was a Buick...

of course, no one got a shot of the previous move where Dave had leapt over the church and landed on one foot, or the one after where he mutters something like "if do correct, no can defense..."

[diego]

Here's the whole scanned article:

Cover

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4


David and Steven I. translated and wrote it, I flew with Sifu Chan out to Cali to IKF headquarters to shoot the pics. We were supposed to both be on the cover but the pics didn't come out right. He got the little square instead and nothing for me! I'm just on the inside..

Why did Jyu Chyun feel Lama was not good for those with bad tempers?...from what I have seen of CLF and Lama they both seem equally good as exercise...why did CTS have to earn Lama?.

Ross, you mentioned CTS only liked the "Mo Lum" (what does that term mean?) and didn't care about the average undisciplined joe or frank or bob... so i took that and added it up with the fact that nobody but the white crane guys really like talking about their styles...we got a few hop gar books and your writings and that's it!?.

[diego]

just for you Chris


Kick Defense Part 1

Kick Defense Part 2

These are from 1991 in the Mineola School



Did you like the pic I sent you earlier today? The Toi San crew?

Nice visuals with the traditional wall of death in the back

[jow yeroc]

Nice pics and i loved that article. Very good. Did Sifu Chan ever show, remember,
or talk about the jow ga (hung tao choy mei) that he learned early on?? I knew
he was versed in a few styles but i didn't know he learned some jow kuen too.
Very cool!

[SifuChow]

Nice pics and i loved that article. Very good. Did Sifu Chan ever show, remember,
or talk about the jow ga (hung tao choy mei) that he learned early on?? I knew
he was versed in a few styles but i didn't know he learned some jow kuen too.
Very cool!

Sifu Chan did mention Hung Tao Choy Mei to me during our training and did teach some forms from that style. I don't know if he ever focused on Jow Ga with any of his students though.

[goldberg]

I really love these pictures and the stories of chan tai san. I was able to read the one that mr ross posted on kung fu magazine. I am really excited to be studying lama kung fu now. I have heard great stories from my sifu. It would have been great to be trained by him or have the pleasure to learn from him like most of you guys and my current sifu.

[cjurakpt]

I really love these pictures and the stories of chan tai san. I was able to read the one that mr ross posted on kung fu magazine. I am really excited to be studying lama kung fu now. I have heard great stories from my sifu. It would have been great to be trained by him or have the pleasure to learn from him like most of you guys and my current sifu.

so whose school did you end up enrolling at?

[cjurakpt]

Nice pics and i loved that article. Very good. Did Sifu Chan ever show, remember,
or talk about the jow ga (hung tao choy mei) that he learned early on?? I knew
he was versed in a few styles but i didn't know he learned some jow kuen too.
Very cool!

I learned a number of his hung style forms, but they were not jow ga, although there are some similarities as they are both southern;

[goldberg]

so whose school did you end up enrolling at?

I ending up joining a school in plainview called MAXFIT. Its 5 mins from where I live. My sifu is a guy by the name of Rafael Gomez. He has told us a few stories from when he trained with Chan tai san after my first class one day. Seems to be going ok. You train in lama pai until you recieve a black belt than you can train in choi le fut I believe. the classes are very small so you getting a decent amount of instruction.

[cjurakpt]

I ending up joining a school in plainview called MAXFIT. Its 5 mins from where I live. My sifu is a guy by the name of Rafael Gomez. He has told us a few stories from when he trained with Chan tai san after my first class one day. Seems to be going ok. You train in lama pai until you recieve a black belt than you can train in choi le fut I believe. the classes are very small so you getting a decent amount of instruction.

that's surprising, considering the information you were given in response to your earlier inquiries on this thread, as well as your follow-up posts concerning same, such as:

i guess i did not need to graduate the buiness school or wharton to figure this out. a guy studies for 2 1/2 years under you? teaches a few classes leaves opens up a school? trains with somebody else after while he has his own school? says he trained extensively with chan tai san which is not true? Now teaches an art that he really does not know or nobody really ever taught him and says you have to recieve a black sash to learn the art that he does know? sound right or am i way off?

and this:

seems you were right on this. thank you

so, what's your agenda here, or is that beeping in the background my "troll detector" going off? tell you what, in fact, maybe I'll just stop by Raphael's school this week to say "hi", since I just found out that it's literally 1/2 mile down the road from where my son attends daycare; maybe I'll give him the link to this thread so he can check it out himself...

[Lama Pai Sifu]

I ending up joining a school in plainview called MAXFIT. Its 5 mins from where I live. My sifu is a guy by the name of Rafael Gomez. He has told us a few stories from when he trained with Chan tai san after my first class one day. Seems to be going ok. You train in lama pai until you recieve a black belt than you can train in choi le fut I believe. the classes are very small so you getting a decent amount of instruction.

Silly Troll.

[jow yeroc]

Thanks for the replies cjurakpt and SifuChow. Very interesting. SifuChow, do
you remember which forms he taught? If you can recollect it would be cool to
know and if not its OK too. thanks

[monji112000]

I learned a number of his hung style forms, but they were not jow ga, although there are some similarities as they are both southern;

I'v seen allot of similarities and allot of differences.