ShortFormMike wrote:"More parlor tricks and cult worship of the master."
i was just pushin' w/ a guy two fridays ago who lived in taiwan for about 5 years. he competed in tournaments and tried to get with as many masters he could. he was actually kind of shameless when it came to using full force on respected masters and ended up dumping a couple.
he said he's only met two people that had something exceptional. both were students of huang sheng shyan (one was in taiwan, the other in canada).
he did say that most masters, huang included, had plenty of jumpy students who looked best in demonstrations. but huang was the real deal.
did he not also take 1st place in a PH tournament by beating hong yi xiang in 1955? or was it '58?
fuga wrote:Weapon fighting? What was the rule set for that and what weapons were allowed?
ShortFormMike wrote:"More parlor tricks and cult worship of the master."
i was just pushin' w/ a guy two fridays ago who lived in taiwan for about 5 years. he competed in tournaments and tried to get with as many masters he could. he was actually kind of shameless when it came to using full force on respected masters and ended up dumping a couple.
he said he's only met two people that had something exceptional. both were students of huang sheng shyan (one was in taiwan, the other in canada).
he did say that most masters, huang included, had plenty of jumpy students who looked best in demonstrations. but huang was the real deal.
did he not also take 1st place in a PH tournament by beating hong yi xiang in 1955? or was it '58?
Tom wrote:C.J.Wang wrote:Yes, Huang did take 1st in PH divison in '59. But did you know that later on the same day he challenged the champion of the free fighting divison, a Shuai Jiao/Cha Chuan master named Chang Yin-Jiang, and got thrown on the ground twice in the first round and gave up? (The competition included PH, weapon fighting, and free fighting divisions. The rule at the time allowed the champion of one division to challenge and fight the champion of another.)
Ah, yes, documented history . . . a rarely-used tool in critiquing the oral traditions of yore. As with the oral tradition of Wang Yen-nien's taijiquan lineage, averring that Zhang Qinglin won one of the national guoshu tournaments of the late 1920s (held at Nanking) . . . and there does not appear to even be a record of Zhang's entry, let alone victory, in any of those national competitions.
C.J.Wang wrote:fuga wrote:Weapon fighting? What was the rule set for that and what weapons were allowed?
From what I read and if I remember correctly, I believe it was divided into short and long weapon groups--sword and spear.
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