jjy5016 wrote:Small Han was known as the Tiger of Yiquan. He was employed as the bodyguard (unarmed) for the Chinese equivalent of Don Corleone in Shanghai.
jjy5016 wrote:He invited Han Xing Yuan to fight him but Han refused. Some sort of generational or lineage thing... Han did go over to his house one day to discuss quan and drank a bottle of his liquor.
Taste of Death wrote:If you wanted to learn the secrets of yiquan beyond just being a student of HXY's you had to drink with him. He could drink a lot and he required his training partner to match him drink for drink. Henry Look (my guang ping yang taiji and xing yi teacher) said if you didn't write down what HXY was teaching it would all be forgotten in the morning, replaced by a tremendous hangover.
Taste of Death wrote:jjy5016 wrote:He invited Han Xing Yuan to fight him but Han refused. Some sort of generational or lineage thing... Han did go over to his house one day to discuss quan and drank a bottle of his liquor.
If you wanted to learn the secrets of yiquan beyond just being a student of HXY's you had to drink with him. He could drink a lot and he required his training partner to match him drink for drink. Henry Look (my guang ping yang taiji and xing yi teacher) said if you didn't write down what HXY was teaching it would all be forgotten in the morning, replaced by a tremendous hangover.
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