Originally Posted by
ChuangkTzu
Due to the blizzard-like conditions that swept through Ohio yesterday, I had
the day off like everybody else. I had some time to dig out some old issues
of Inside Kung-Fu magazine and look for the old Green Dragon ad with the
supposed "doctored" photo. If anybody has the Feb 1988 issue ( Master Chicoine
is on the cover), its obvious the photo in the GD ad containing Chang, Chicoine and Allen, has been altered.
There is an article entitled " Controversy Erupts Over Shuai Chiao Leadership"
in the same issue. The article is written by William Barret and Dave Cater. It
contains many photos of Grandmaster Chang courtesy of Master Chicoine,
Daniel Weng, Bob Sbarge and Eric Sbarge. On page 41, one of the photos
courtesy of Master Chicoine, contains both Chicoine and Chang. You can tell
they took this picture, cut Grandmaster Chang out, and placed him in between
Chicoine and Allen in the GD ad photo.
Check it out. Without a doubt, it's the same picture of Chang in both photographs. I'm not questioning Master Chicoine's credentials or those of Sifu Allen for that matter. In fact, the article makes it pretty clear Master Chicoine is the true successor to Grandmaster Chang. I'm only stating that lkfmdc was right. The photo in the ad was definitely altered.
Chuang Tzu