johnwang wrote:C.J.W. wrote:Wouldn't you say your teacher, GM Chang, was one of the top CMA guys who could fight?![]()
When GM Chang was young, he traveled to
- Mongol to test his skill against Mongolian wrestlers.
- Beijing foreign district to test his skill against Judo guys.
This is why I don't understand how can any "top CMA guy" be "less public".
This was one of my teachers from long ago....he was not so public
and I would say among some the top guys in his field. He told me they used to go up
into the hills and hunt down the N Koreans during and after the war,
part of the things they used to do in training was to kill pigs barehanded testing different mantis hands
on the pigs....an interesting teacher in that it was kind of dangerous sparing with him.
If he slipped or forgot, out of reflex the person sparring with him would get hurt...
His name is also romanized as:
Park Chi Moon.
Shifu Park Chil Sung was born in 1930 in what is now North Korea. He first began studying gong fu within his family at a very young age (around 7 or 8 years old). He later traveled around the Korean peninsula studying under any master he could find. At that time he met his main master, shifu Lin Ping Jiang.
During the Korean war he along with most other young men from his home town were recruited to fight for the south as guerilla fighters not actually associated with the formal army. After the war he was able to relocate to the south and has not seen his family since then
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Shifu Park Chil Sung worked for some time after the war for the South Korean equivalent of the American CIA, training in hand to hand combat.
He has been teaching at Camp Casey Tongdushon (a U.S. Army post just south of the DMZ - north of Seoul) since the 70's, with many of his students being U.S. Military personnel. In the year 2000 he was still alive and teaching in Korea
http://www.oocities.org/mantiscave/parkchil.htm