Thanks, guys! Performing the Trident and bench is Talesh who I has been training for over 20 years and is an instructor at my school. The trident form I got from my friend Leon Dogan (Lam Family Hung Gar). Talesh went to Hong Kong to get the bench form and at the time not many people were practising it (out of fashion?), he was introduced to a master who still taught the bench and the next year everybody was doing it again!! I put those forms in the video because the flavour makes a nice contrast to the Hap Gar and Taiji.
I spent a day with Wong Nimyi last year. Sifu and I met him at the park where sifu had arranged a friendly challenge for me with a push hands master from Beijing. (He does that kind of thing a lot!) Anyway, afterwards we went to Wong Sifus house where we just talked martial arts for about 6 hours straight! He's very powerful and really into good old fashioned lin gong training with heavy poles etc. A great day!
New Rising Crane Video.
Posted - 01/21/2007 : 06:26:31
