What Fubo said times 10!
I have asked Tim, and he stated he trained off and on with the Sun folk on his visits to Northern China. I did not ask for EXACTLY how many hours of what days, etc. Did Tim spend all 10 years with them? No. Did he just spend a long weekend with them? Certainly not either. Tim was working as a translator and guide throughout many of those years, so he would be travelling and spending periods of time in various cities of Northern China (Beijing, Shanghai... etc.).
If you all are so interested in the exact number of hours, feel free to contact Tim via his website. You can bother him with stupid ass questions. I have better things to discuss with Tim.
For if he is not a "lineage holder" or the "highest" teacher (isn't that Eddie Bravo
, whatever those comments mean, I can attest to the fact that he has a much deeper knowledge, and ability to apply the martial sciences better than all the self proclaimed "masters" and "grandmasters" I have had the pleasure to train with!
Spring,
If you were really interested in just "sharing" knowledge, you would not have been so quick to tell everyone on this board that you do the "real" Sun Bagua because of what your teacher told you was the "highest level of teaching." Notice how since I do not know your teacher, and never touched hands with him, that I do not belittle him or his knowledge? Yet you have to chime in with your rumor mongering, and juvenile BS behavior. Not the best impression you have left junior!
Jake