Trick wrote:origami_itto wrote:, whatever Dan Docherty does...
to pour a little more oil on the fire, wasn’t it Earle’s Taiji teacher that Dan Docherty poured a glass of water over to prove the chi-masters inability?
Other than that teacher, if I recall right, Earle spent about a week in Shanghai trying to impress Fu Zhongwen in hope to become a disciple or something like that.
And that other of Earl’s teachers, the unverified one that taught the “real thing” sound well…bogus…..
I see the flames rising
People do all kinds of wild stuff out there. So many ideas.
I brought Erle up because I was familiar with "Fishes in eight" through his line of instruction. We can see the ideas he was bringing to the section of form we were talking about because he bothered to document it.
He was a friendly and open guy who was easy to talk to and put a lot of his ideas into print. Nothin wrong with that, pissing contests and insecurities aside.
For better or worse, not a lot of people have had the impact he did. Who's going to bringing up our names 13 years after we die, and what are they going to say?
"Wayne Hansen? Wasn't that the guy that saved Taijiquan from Origami Itto?"