Information on 5 Animals - Ark Wong's style and ranks

[Kevin73]

Not a five family student, so I really don't have a dog in this fight.

here is a brief bio of Ark Wong
http://www.southern5.com/WongSifu.html

[hskwarrior]

Not a five family student, so I really don't have a dog in this fight.

here is a brief bio of Ark Wong
http://www.southern5.com/WongSifu.html

thanks dude, but this has nothing to do with the ranking system in question or the Mr. Fut part.

[Drake]

Mr. Fut owns you all.

[sanjuro_ronin]

Mr. Fut owns you all.

But he pales in comparison to Mr.Coq and let's not even mention Ms.Lab

[Kevin73]

thanks dude, but this has nothing to do with the ranking system in question or the Mr. Fut part.

I didn't read through it all the way, just where he got the training as it pertained to the "fut" part of the system.

here is a link on the "fut gar" system. Don't know if it is the same as in the 5 family or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fut_Gar

[Grasshopper101]

I didn't read through it all the way, just where he got the training as it pertained to the "fut" part of the system.

here is a link on the "fut gar" system. Don't know if it is the same as in the 5 family or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fut_Gar

Does "fut gar" or "fut ga" have any relation to the set of techniques with the same name in Kung Fu San Soo? Or is just a coincidence?

[hskwarrior]

which techniques

[Grasshopper101]

This is what I copied off a website (regarding san soo techniques):

Fut-Ga, roughly translated means "the way of the monk". The function of these lessons was to effectively coordinate your hands to work with your feet. Fut-Ga, unlike the defensive Ah-Soo lessons, are offensive and require you to approach your opponent from any one of eight different angles. Completion of the Fut-Ga Lessons will have doubled your efective power and the body extremities are now coordinated enough to work as a single unit. Launching multiple attacks, utilizing punches and kicks at the same time, is now not only possible but very feasible.

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Supposedly there are a couple hundred of these fut ga techniques.

[hskwarrior]

Fut-Ga, roughly translated means "the way of the monk".

What? It does? man, i could have sworn in means Buddhist Family. And, the rest of it really needs to just come down.

[Drake]

It actually translates to "Strokes the fur of the chimpanzee ever so gently"

[Grasshopper101]

Well, I don't speak chinese, so I'll pretty much believe whatever.

I guess thats how I ended up learning from a guy who probably never actually trained with Ark Wong.

[Kevin73]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread. A week or so ago, I was flipping through the book "Kung Fu Masters" by Jose Furgaras (sp?). In it was an interview with Ark Wong, and Wong mentions his ranking system and what order the colored sashes go.

Just thought I would throw that out there. I don't know if he used them for a very short time (during the interview period) or if he just mentions them as a red herring for people who claim to have learned from him that didn't.

[kfman5F]

This is from David Jamieson's Tejn Tigers post:

set three: (the five family elders)

1) Hung Hei Gun
2) Lau Sam Ngan
3) Choy Gau Yi
4) Li Yau San
5) Mok Ching Giu

Set three is likely most familiar to all us southern style kung fu guys.

1=patriarch of Hung Gar according to legend
2=patriarch of Lau Gar
3-patriarch of Choy Li Fut
4= Patriarch of Choy li Fut
5= Patriarch of Mok Gar

If this is correct, there are Family names for each... Mr. Fut, etc.

My understanding is that Ark Wong used different colored sashes for demonstrations only to make things more colorful.

[Grasshopper101]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread. A week or so ago, I was flipping through the book "Kung Fu Masters" by Jose Furgaras (sp?). In it was an interview with Ark Wong, and Wong mentions his ranking system and what order the colored sashes go.

Just thought I would throw that out there. I don't know if he used them for a very short time (during the interview period) or if he just mentions them as a red herring for people who claim to have learned from him that didn't.

What were the sash ranks he mentioned?

[Violent Designs]

Does "fut gar" or "fut ga" have any relation to the set of techniques with the same name in Kung Fu San Soo? Or is just a coincidence?

AFAIK San Soo is a bunch of kempo bullsh1t and they kind of copied the history of Five Family Fist?