Steve Smith
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Steve, Fook Yueng, Sensei David Harris
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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2010, 05:36:44 pm » |
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Fook Yueng did teach Bruce things, Mantis, RB Wing Chun, etc, Bruce adapted them to his "thing" based on his own research, prior training, continued training etc. Most excellent Martial Artists train, and cross train, exploring and researching ideas, testing them and improving them. Bruce was clearly genius, Fook would show him some stuff, Bruce would come back in a day or two after training it for thousands of repetitions, finding the strengths and weaknesses and then streamlining it, he would then show Fook who would say that is great how did you do it at which point Bruce would clam up and want to go to the next thing. Fook Yueng has always told his students that a "Sifu's" job is to lift his students up as high as he can so that they can see further than what was seen in the past. He was very fond of Bruce, and considered him the biggest talent, and to have contributed more to martial arts than anyone in 500 years. It is my opinion that working building block stuff, as "grist for the mill" is very important, there is nuance to be lost in going for the end result so fast that one does not build up the core essentials to do with integrity what a person has been able to accomplish after a life of research, polish, refinement etc. Bruce by taking years of training, and condensing in terms of repetition, was able to take something in a very short amount of time, learn it, "master" it, and then abandon it. But it came in that order. Abandoning something before one has developed it leads to confusion, and opinion. Stuff should lead to stuff, should build on stuff, and then eventually become ones own stuff. This leads to revolutionary leaps in concept. IT, the process, if not the path should be used by anyone wanting to also revolutionize their own stuff. Blind following leads to Technicians not Artists. Fook trained in the Red Boat Opera for many years as a way of surviving for countless hours each day similar to the way an Olympian trains, learning many styles that were for protection and some for the show. After 70 some years of practice he said, "All Same Nothing". I asked what I should call it he said Fook Yueng Chuan. Fook Yueng's Boxing or Expression. He encourages each of his students to find their way through diving deeply in the stuff until they can't tell where they start and the stuff begins they are one with IT.
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