Chen Yuen San Retreat

[dragontigerpalm]

Twilight zone

[Andy_S]

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A choice was made. Alex acted in accordance with that choice. It's really his private business. Curious folks always have the option of PM or e-mail.
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Of course, this may well be Alex's personal business, but he also has the choice of simply being open and transparent and informing the community of what on earth this is all about...ideally on a tailored thread on a martial arts board for martial arts enthusiasts that is dedicated to this very topic. (Yes, you are reading it right: I mean this one.)

With all due respect to all posters:
This is Chinese martial arts we are talking about, not nuclear defense policy, a murder investigation or international espionage.*

Let's keep things in perspective and get a grip.

*Or am I missing something....?

[alexsuffolk]

No big deal. We hosted Mr Chen for few weeks so he can meet good students here, which he has.

i decided to cut any link with him as student, and just continue on with the Neijia from my main teacher which i have been doing and teaching all these years.

Have i explained this clearly enough?

[Andy_S]

Alex:

Well, considering that you were actively promoting him just a couple of weeks ago - on this very board/thread, with clips, testimonials a seminar et al - yet are now, very suddenly cutting all links with him and deleting previous posts, things are hardly clear. (The "duh" question is:"Why this very sudden change of heart?")

As Tom says, it is your business, but this whole board/thread is a public forum. Moreover, there is considerable respect for you as a practitioner/teacher, and considerable interest in Master Chen's method.

Given this, your explanation raises more questions than it answers. (Or at least it does from my perspective: I am sure there will be plenty who will chime in with, "Ah, but you don't understand the culture...")

[alexsuffolk]

Andy-

Its just that all these years, y'know, i thought i was a real internal boxer, working my root, softening my muscles, honing my intent...i thought i was some kind of internal boxer.....and now i discover actually i am a ....well gosh...how do i put it....damn...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5XBIcZemSU



hope this helps Andy.

alex

[Andy_S]

Whatever.

On the "I thought I was a....well...damn..." front - I'll raise you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pWd8iV4Rz0

Doesn''t get better than Smith and Cooke.

[yusuf]

..if you like the guys stuff and him, then go train with him.. if not then don;t..

[gosao]

so.... does this mean we can't haz master Chen DVD's no more?

[yusuf]

..i have a whole bunch of clips which a very kind person helped me get off my iphone ... If anyone is in touch with Mr Chen, please find out if he agrees, I will send them to anyone who is willing to host them..

[williamwilson666]

Of course, this may well be Alex's personal business, but he also has the choice of simply being open and transparent and informing the community of what on earth this is all about...ideally on a tailored thread on a martial arts board for martial arts enthusiasts that is dedicated to this very topic. (Yes, you are reading it right: I mean this one.)

And make your job as investigative journalist par excellence all that much easier?

Well now, you prompted Mr. Kozma to "come out," as they say. Your next assignment is Pyongyang, to talk with the younger Mr. Kim and get those journalists freed.

This thread has gone a bit weird

[bigphatwong]

This thread has gone a bit weird

That never happens around here.

[alexsuffolk]

Yeah must be the Suffolk water...i am sure i was never a lesbian when i lived in Thailand...

[Andy_S]

Personally, I have been a lesbian in a (rather buff, though I say it myself) man's body all these years.

If only I could afford the operation...you don't want to do these kinds of things on the cheap.

[Birmingham]

As someone who has been following the thread in the hope of another retreat, i'm a little disappointed, but thanks for getting it on here - even for short period it was, I feel happier in my tai chi for seeing an internal boxer of such standard, so thanks Alex.

[DuncanUS]

Great to see the clips that are still up of Alex's Taiji master at the seminar. I just came across this thread.

Sad to see that other footage has gone and that Alex has now gone quiet on the teachings... but I have to say it is par for the course.

I attended a seminar with Alex and Chris in the UK a few years ago (Xingyi seminar) and it was great. But learning for Alex is very difficult. The man is a nomad! Getting to the UK from mainland Europe for that seminar was very expensive for me but I thought it was worth the money to meet Alex and establish a relationship. My hopes for learning from him evaporated, however, when he moved to Thailand and then stopped teaching publically.

I guess he's now back in the UK and living in Suffolk.

Chen Yuen San seems exceptional but I don't think people will get the chance to learn his material. His jibengong, which Alex feels is the key to CYS's skills, is only taught to those rare few... and Alex, it seems, is no longer teaching CYS's methods.

Ho-Hum. Learning quality internal, I am beginning to think, is impossible unless you are lucky enough to live close to a real master (if you can find them) and can convince them to teach you the real material.

In my own personal journey I have been lucky to find some quality Silat players and they are very open in what they teach. Sad to say, but I have given up trying to get quality Chinese internal material.

When you are lucky enough to find it.... people don't teach it.