just thought i'd introduce myself, I'm new to the group here. I practice hung-gar (or hung-kuen) kung fu. It's a southern style that's pretty rooted in fundamentals like solid stance work and strong arm / bridging techniques.
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Re: Hung Gar / New to Group
Wed, December 6, 2006 - 5:28 PMHung Gar in the HOUSE!...Welcome..slow exchanges in this tribe but worthy.I'm Choy Li Fut and there are Southern similarities for sure.A buddy of mine whose been mostly identifying as a Tai Chi person recently got back from Hong Kong while supporting his Sihing's testing for a teacher rating, got himself asked to test and since he kept up his forms he got ranked as a Sifu! He learned on the roof tops of NYC Chinatown.We have a Hung Gar guy at our school who came to us when his Sifu retired, and his Choy Li Fut still looks like Hung Gar.
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Re: Hung Gar / New to Group
Thu, December 7, 2006 - 5:18 PMLei Ho Hung Kuen Andy!
Pleased to meet you. I'm Pak Mei pai, do we fight to the death now?
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Greg, who is you Sifu? Are you with Lacy in Oakland? My Sifu is childhood friends with Chan Yong Fa, but I've only met him a couple of times.
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Re: Hung Gar / New to Group
Fri, December 8, 2006 - 5:52 AMThanks for the welcomes, guys.
I see a lot of hung-gar in the other southern styles (or vice-versa, not trying to establish hungga as the dominant style!)
traditional hunggar also teaches the student medicine and healing. my sifu was big on self-massage, reflexology, etc. It's cool how the same spots for accupressure are the same as the spots for dim mak. A nice rub around the temples feels so good, but a sharp blow to them....not so much.
do other schools focus on medicine/healing also? I have a great jar of dit-da that sifu gave me, it's amazing on bruises/aches/etc. -
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Re: Hung Gar / New to Group
Sun, December 10, 2006 - 8:20 PMMost southern styles have healing and hei gung as part of the training, but not all students pick it up. Dit da Jau recipies are often considered 'family secrets" because they used to generate extra income for the teacher, as did bone setting, treatment of contousions, etc. Sort of their own version of sports medicine.
Higher level skills included herbal treatments or accupuncture, or higher yet, both.
Your comments on the commonality of healing and hurting points - the fundamentals of chinese medicine are based upon the 5 elements, fire, wood water earth and metal. The meridians and associate organs of the body are related to these elements. There is a cycle of creation, and a cycle of destruction, very simply put, fire destroys wood, yet water makes wood grow...etc, etc.
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Re: Hung Gar / New to Group
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 9:44 PMhey the search engine is temporarily down on 'youtube' but I recently caught an old guy demo of 'White Eyebrow' from this guys site in Shanghai.An easy search later would be @ youtube--Bagua(search)-then when you see a guy's video which has the name credit of 'DPGDPG' ,click on that name and there is a hecka amount of mostly internal arts but with other treats too!My friend whom recommended the site called me at work today to tell me to find the 'Tung Bei'(white-ape) set shown there! He said it looked 'smashing!'(pun intended)
-Did you say 'dit dat jow'?...My master has a kickass recipe and I'm getting near the bottom of my bottle now! This stuff must strengthen the blood cell walls as it seems to prevent future bruising as well as treat present bruises.You all must know of Wong Fei Hung of Tiger-Crane fame,...well his dad the herbalist was purported to have soaked his boy up to his ears in the supply vat of his dit dat jow giving Wong Fei Hung an 'iron' shirt!...My own teacher was sickl as a child and they put him thru TaiChi and Kungfu to promote his health and he's now78 and still doing the Fu!
-and Sparrow...I'm a big fan of the Lacy brothers.They are a different branch of Choy Lay Fut but they have the prestige of being some of the famous H.K.5 panthers whom fought under ground there in the 60's-70's and were supposed to fight Bruce Lee as there was rivalries between Choy Lay Fut and Wing Chun in H.K. but the elders said that the word got out and the hype on the street would bring it above ground which was bad for them.They were friends as well.They're bad-ass Australian-Asian twin brothers and I watched Shane the kid grow up at the tournaments over the decades.He's a big Sifu now.He won out to my teacher from Boston at an Internat'l.That teacher Jason Yee fought and lost to Cung Lee but became friends w/him and they're both in a new Kungfu movie expected for release.Look at Jason's web site.-----------G
----Now as to my Sifu,...E.Y.Lee.com...he's semi-retired but as an elder still does it all.He's got old-school street cred' .His teacher was with the Chinatown descrete buis/clubs and he was the money carrier from when there used to be 'Hatchet-men'...oh there are stories.My Sifu teaches more material than his teacher did as he's picked up some other Shoalin stuff along the way.I recently found that my favorite weapons set he got from a martial woman in H.K.(Double short-swords).I missed all last week so I'm ansy to get back to the studio! -
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Re: Hung Gar / New to Group
Wed, December 13, 2006 - 10:53 AMdit da medicine does prevent bruising as well as heal those already sustained.
iron palm training warmups include rubbing the dit da all over your hands and forearms for this reason.
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