the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Charlie, which student of Patrick Kelly are you learning from? He sounds like he's very good.

Are any of his top students getting close to his skills?

Hi Pennykid,

The example person was Patrick Kelly himself who I try to visit at least once a year now.

And in US I train with his student Tim Suh in Chicago. Also have Guillem Bernado (who ran PK's school in Shanghai during Covid) visiting once or twice a year to US before Covid and hopefully resuming again soon. Tim and Guillem taught a bit over zoom during covid too, that's ended but Guillem still has online resources at taijistream.com including free intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_51xRJfQ7Xo

I would say his top students have a fairly clear picture of his method (even his not so top students get a pretty clear picture of what we're supposed to do), a few of his students feel "unusual" or just very sensitive and smooth, but usually I did not spend enough time (100+ different people in the room and we rotate through exercises) to experience the full depth of what they could or could not do (we train very specific exercises so I just experienced their skill in context of specific exercise we were doing).

Like any school of course a small handful are more experienced and much deeper than average.

PS: I saw your profile NZ HXX taiji, are you a student of WD or RL? I saw met WD in person first time last August.
Also CS from Austria is doing first US workshop in Chicago next wknd and I'll be there.

I don't know who WD or RL are. I practice in Yek Sing Ong's branch under Mike Kinney.

Wayne Duncan and Rob Lindsay, two of PK's students in NZ.

Some of PK's most senior students are in EU, esp. France, Belgium, Austria Italy etc...

Pennykid wrote:I don't know who WD or RL are. I practice in Yek Sing Ong's branch under Mike Kinney.