Kung Fu Brother Needs Help!

[CLFLPstudent]

Your family is in my thoughts and prayers!

-David

[banditshaw]

Prayers and thoughts go to your family.

The paypal is a great idea, please post the info when you can.

Peace.

[ingchao]

Prayers and thoughts go to your family.

The paypal is a great idea, please post the info when you can.

Peace.

Thank for everyone's thoughts and prayers!

The e-mail for Paypal is:

ingchao777@yahoo.com

[BruceSteveRoy]

i am not sure how to go about requesting support or assistance but you should try to contact the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and see if there is a way that they can help you out. do you have an online donations page set up?
i will keep your son and your family in my prayers.

[Lucas]

I have the same request as the gentleman Ross mentioned.

I am not understanding of this paypal donation thing, and dont want to figure it out.

Tell me where to mail a check and who to make the check out to. Send me a PM if you like.

[drleungjohn]

-You would need to find a place big enough for little or no money-maybe someone with a big enough school,town hall,rec center,etc-

THEN GET A GROUP OF VOLUNTEER SIFU'S TO TEACH IN 1-2 HOUR BLOCKS
Make it clear that all money raised is being done as FINANCIAL help
Make it a one day seminar
Alert the local News Media,TV,Newspaper etc, of the good will event-you might get help from other people that way
Come up with a comfortable price for the day

I will teach for you at this event

[lkfmdc]

I will gladly donate my school to offer a place for seminars... and will be happy to do a seminar myself

my school (www.nysanda.com) should be able to fit a decent size seminar, certainly we can do several in one day

[cjurakpt]

Rik's idea of a Lion Dance begets a bigger one-why not put on a Friendship seminar-get some volunteer people to teach in hour-2 hour blocks and whatever money raised goes to your son and Insurance bills-- I'll donate time to teach a block for you

great idea John; I am in (I can even do a block specifically on "anti-cancer" qiqong healing in keeping with the overall intention of the event); maybe we can get everyone to do a group 108 "Om-mane-padme-hums" at the end as well...

I'll also throw in $20, just to match Dave

[ingchao]

great idea John; I am in (I can even do a block specifically on "anti-cancer" qiqong healing in keeping with the overall intention of the event); maybe we can get everyone to do a group 108 "Om-mane-padme-hums" at the end as well...

I'll also throw in $20, just to match Dave

Thanks!

I'm definitely down for the healing qigong. I think I expended the last (almost) of my qi trying to help the little guy stay calm when they were sticking him with all those needles. I can't seem to get my qi level back up, stuff that used to always work only works marginally now. Gotta be the stress.

[cjurakpt]

so, anybody got any ideas on location? ingchao, what part of LI are you located in (I'm in Bayshore, but travel all around for work)? there are certainly many venues available, and you might stand a good chance of getting a local school / rec center / VFW hall, whatever donated for the event; I work in a number of different schools / know people who work in schools, including a lot of PE guys, which could give a possible entree for requesting use of a space; my dad is an assistant PE prof at Adelphi, so he has potential access there and knows lots of PE directors at different places as well; and of course some local MA people might be willing to donate their space, but probably you want something that can comfortably hold 50 to 100 participants (which, if you market this right, could easily occur, if you consider how many instructors would really encourage students to attend, right?)

we should start a working list of participants in terms of doing seminars: I forwarded this to one local taiji instructor, Mike Pekor, (www.taichili.com) who said he'd be willing to participate, so looks like so far including him that makes 5 people (Rik, John C., Dave R., myself); I'll reach out to a few more locals, see if they are interested as well...

anyone know anyone in public relations / marketing? you might get some free press coverage for this, including advertising in local community papers if it's spun to them correctly? but that's not my area so I really don't know the deal w/that

[ingchao]

so, anybody got any ideas on location? ingchao, what part of LI are you located in (I'm in Bayshore, but travel all around for work)? there are certainly many venues available, and you might stand a good chance of getting a local school / rec center / VFW hall, whatever donated for the event; I work in a number of different schools / know people who work in schools, including a lot of PE guys, which could give a possible entree for requesting use of a space; my dad is an assistant PE prof at Adelphi, so he has potential access there and knows lots of PE directors at different places as well; and of course some local MA people might be willing to donate their space, but probably you want something that can comfortably hold 50 to 100 participants (which, if you market this right, could easily occur, if you consider how many instructors would really encourage students to attend, right?)

we should start a working list of participants in terms of doing seminars: I forwarded this to one local taiji instructor, Mike Pekor, (www.taichili.com) who said he'd be willing to participate, so looks like so far including him that makes 5 people (Rik, John C., Dave R., myself); I'll reach out to a few more locals, see if they are interested as well...

anyone know anyone in public relations / marketing? you might get some free press coverage for this, including advertising in local community papers if it's spun to them correctly? but that's not my area so I really don't know the deal w/that

I'm located in Shirley (exit 68 L.I.E.). But I was thinking maybe we should center the location around where most participants are coming from. The locations you mentioned (Adelphi etc..) sound excellent. I know people who have connections to a newspaper or 2 that will help with this. Also, I'd need to get some kind of insurance to cover this, correct?
I think at this point we need some people to sound off on whether or not they'd be interested in attending. And maybe the instructors who volunteered can outline what they'll be teaching.

[drleungjohn]

I think somewhere between Nassau and Suffolk-and I think we should mix up the curriculum-some chi gung,soem fighting,maybe weapons and or forms-

I will teach some Wing Chun something based on what the others decide to share

[ingchao]

I think somewhere between Nassau and Suffolk-and I think we should mix up the curriculum-some chi gung,soem fighting,maybe weapons and or forms-

I will teach some Wing Chun something based on what the others decide to share

That sounds great!
I'm up for some sparring and have always wanted to learn Sil Lum Tao along with butterfly swords. I know some others who would like to check out some Wing Chun, also.

[drleungjohn]

-You went from A to Z -LOL!

We'll see what the others' bring to the table--

[cjurakpt]

like I said, I would do a qigong bit, specifically anti-cancer (unless there is interest in something else); what i can also do is reach out to a few local pediatricians and a larger number of pediatric OT / PT folks in terms of them advertising it in their practices; and if you decide on a general location, I can look into who I know in the area

finally, I agree with John, somewhere centrally along Nassau / Suffolk border would make the most sense in terms of location; a village rec center or VFW lodge might make the most sense, as they are usually easier to get access to than public school gymnasia...