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International Fook Yueng Chuan Association Seminar Huston, Texas
By the little dojo | January 14, 2010
UPDATE 1/7/10
The location for the Feb 19-20 seminar is the Sleep Inn and Suites 1908 Country Place Pkwy Pearland, Texas 77584 832- 230-3000. When you call to book a room for the event, tell them you are going to the martial arts seminar, and they will discount your room.
We are really looking forward to having Steve come to Houston ( Pearland) and teach. He will be covering many principles from the FYC system, differences between internal and external ways of fighting and the empty hand self defense of the Basic Combat System. You will also get a chance to see and feel many things that you have heard about in stories…this is the real deal folks!! See and experience no-contact work, balance stealing, effortless throws and takedowns and more!! Spaces are filling fast, and we are limiting this seminar to 18 people to insure that everyone receives personal attention and can take something home.
Go to the web store to purchase your place for this event.
Topics: Basic Combat System, Bruce Lee, Chi Kung, David Harris | 1 Comment »
February 9th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Fook Yueng did teach Bruce things, Mantis, RB Wing Chun, etc, Bruce adapted them to his “thing” based on his own research, prior training, continued training etc. Most excellent Martial Artists train, and cross train, exploring and researching ideas, testing them and improving them. Bruce was clearly genius, Fook would show him some stuff, Bruce would come back in a day or two after training it for thousands of repetitions, finding the strengths and weaknesses and then streamlining it, he would then show Fook who would say that is great how did you do it at which point Bruce would clam up and want to go to the next thing. Fook Yueng has always told his students that a “Sifu’s” job is to lift his students up as high as he can so that they can see further than what was seen in the past. He was very fond of Bruce, and considered him the biggest talent, and to have contributed more to martial arts than anyone in 500 years. It is my opinion that working building block stuff, as “grist for the mill” is very important, there is nuance to be lost in going for the end result so fast that one does not build up the core essentials to do with integrity what a person has been able to accomplish after a life of research, polish, refinement etc. Bruce by taking years of training, and condensing in terms of repetition, was able to take something in a very short amount of time, learn it, “master” it, and then abandon it. But it came in that order. Abandoning something before one has developed it leads to confusion, and opinion. Stuff should lead to stuff, should build on stuff, and then eventually become ones own stuff. This leads to revolutionary leaps in concept. IT, the process, if not the path should be used by anyone wanting to also revolutionize their own stuff. Blind following leads to Technicians not Artists. Fook trained in the Red Boat Opera for many years as a way of surviving for countless hours each day similar to the way an Olympian trains, learning many styles that were for protection and some for the show. After 70 some years of practice he said, “All Same Nothing”. I asked what I should call it he said Fook Yueng Chuan. Fook Yueng’s Boxing or Expression. He encourages each of his students to find their way through diving deeply in the stuff until they can’t tell where they start and the stuff begins they are one with IT.