Turn back the clock….

Yeah, I know I know, I am supposed to be working; flying to Johor (West Malaysia) day after tomorrow to meet up with some folks to talk about start-up for a new sport in Sarawak – pretty heavy stuff…..

And after that, I will be proceeding to Singapore to see my Zhou Jia, Tai Chor and White Crane families. If Ku Sifu is around, we’ll almost certainly be having our usual cuppa and fading into our land of “Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons”.

Not forgetting that I did mention scanning pictures of old masters to match their clips I found over at youtube plus I am still in the middle of working on a couple of books …… aaaaarrrggghhh I should be at the beach !!!

Nah, “work” is fun and fun is fun so I got no gripe……

Going through some old mags, I found myself reading some of the articles again and found this one really brilliant picture…

A Tibetan White Crane exponent sailing through the air with no wires attached.

This is precisely the kind of stuff that I really love, looking through old mags and pausing at pics like this; you know how some folks hear some old music and get transported back in time….

Well, same effect here.

Sure beats  going to the beach.

 

Reunion.

Right after the Penang event, my Tai Chor Sifu, Teo Choon Teck, was in China to attend his once a year’s Quan Zhou Southern Shaolin convention; a grouping that has been, in recent years, very proactively gathering Fukien CKF schools from all over to convene.

I don’t really know the fine details apart from that there are talks about standardization of training materials etc etc…

This particular group is concentrating on Fukien Cranes, Grand Ancestor and 5 Ancestor lineages.

I know that there are other groupings happening – like Ku Sifu’s Wing Chun group in Canton/Futsan, Zhou Jia, CLF…..

So perhaps China is doing something right this time considering the positive responses seen so far; back in the 70s/80s, similar efforts were initiated but usually getting cold reactions from overseas Chinese.

Time has changed for traditional CKF maybe?

Whatever the case may be, it’s good to see traditional stylists from various parts working together openly to sort things out.

It’s this kind of setup that will make life tough for frauds and charlatans; with the families coming together, it’s will flush them out, once and for all, for making all sorts of bogus claims.

Personally, as a Chinese, it is heartening to keep hearing about mainland and Taiwan taking steps to co-operate in so many manners.

This next clip is downloaded from 56.com; for some reasons, I can’t embed their clips directly. So I downloaded and repost it on youtube.

You’ll see my Tai Chor Sifu in the opening segments – the only one to wear a “Gi”, white top and black pants.

Ah Teck has been trying to get me to join him in China …..hmmmm this year maybe?

After my US trip ….