earthdragon,

Yeah, i certainly realize that sash colors/rankings are uniquely american. I trained in China for an entire month and saw no sashes or rankings. As far as how concepts or movements or techniques are spelled, you would need to ask my sifu why he spells them the way he does. Same thing goes for the lineage on the school's website. It's not my lineage, it's sifu Versagi's lineage. Anyway, whether it's qigong or chi gung, you and everyone else know to what i'm referring.

Yes, we do have to pay for a testing fee. I have no problem with that however. I'm VERY pleased with the knowledge i've gained at my school. In fact, if you want to know more about my sifu, PM Gene and he can tell you much more. My sifu (Frank Versagi) and Gene were training roomates at the shaolin temple in 1995.