New blog on the block.

By now, some of you must know that I am originally from Singapore. Came to this country, Sarawak, about 5 years ago and got stuck…and for good reasons too…

I had wanted to incorporate impressions of this country into this weblog and later decided that I should just concentrate on MAs with the occasional forays into music, my cats blah blah blah…

My colleague, Dianne, has started her blog to talk about Sarawak and frankly, I think she is doing a much better job than my feeble attempts in my old forum.

With her discerning eyes and a much more expensive Canon camera, her blog is colorful; the way it should be when you wanna talk about Sarawak.

Hmmm, now I understand why she has been sneaking up to everybody, shooting away with her digicam…

So there is a plan after all.

You can visit her blog at http://mysarawak.wordpress.com

I have added this link into the “blogroll” area at the foot of this page.

Browse at your own risk!

 

Are you experienced ?

Aaaaarrrggghhhh, first day of a brand New Year and we get this heavy downpour!

Wet wet wet! Now what am I suppose to do? Eat, sleep or watch more DVDs?

Hmmm, might as well spend sometime organizing my cluster of books/magazines and DVDs.

Good for fengshui chi and all that you understand….

I was going through all my video footages and found one, with me just sitting around talking to Por Suk in his temple – no kung fu demo of any sort.

The topic – how do you even co-relate 2 styles and prove/disprove that they are offspring from the same parents?

Unless you do both and have intimate knowledge otherwise basing on exterior comparisons, all CKF overlap; a kick is a kick and a punch is a punch right?

Well, in my opinion, yes and no. I do 3 separate styles and I will tell you that they are not the same. And not just superficially, you really got to immerse yourself to know the variances.

So this begs the question; when someone asserts that 2 styles are related, how correct is this statement especially if one is only acquainted with one side of the equation? Viewing any system from afar will only get you so far….

One contention is that you got to abbreviate the systems to the fundamental elements before assessment.

This then opens the other Pandora box – with so many lines within one style, which is the oldest and nearest to the founder’s origination?

For me, I like to stick to what the Sifus and elders hand down, both oral and written, accounts of families and lineages.

These are folks, from a simpler time, with nothing to gain or lose for not speaking the “truth”.

So when my Sifu explained that Fuzhou Crane is one of the offspring of Fukien Yong Chun White Crane, I have no ground to think that he is not telling what he knew to be true. He is simply repeating what his teacher told him…..

When I spoke to GM Pang Cheng Miaow (current leader of Yong Chun White Crane in China), and this topic was raised, we were able to share without any qualms.

I, for one, do not suppose that by acknowledging the source is taking anything away from what we are doing in Fuzhou Crane; no such hang-up with me…

If anything, it clears things up for me. I am able to look at Yong Chun White Crane, Shaolin Lohan and Hsing-I (we believe that our line took in a lot from an “internal” style) and appreciate what motivated our founder during conception of our unique Crane.

To look at 2 red apples and  think they taste the same, simply, does not hold water.

Question is: Are you experienced?

Got a clip here of Jimi Hendrix doing “Purple Haze” …. Nah just kidding….

Yong Chun White Crane and something I culled from one of Dr. Yang Jwing Ming’s videos. Read Dr. Yang’s book when I was in the States; his “Shaolin White Crane” books are the only ones, published in English regarding White Crane, that I pay any attention to….