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There be....a price to pay,
....for eternity, ...for dependency,
....for misers' greed, ...for lovers' lie,
...for dreams, ...you cannot decide,...
'tis your freedom.
| Clan MacPherson Crest |
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| Touch not the Cat without a Glove |
My background and philosophy.
...when I was younger, ...students named me Godzilla.
...wisened by expereience, ...I am now the Coelacanth.
| Youthful Apprentise |
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| Stolen Childhood, Fatherhood Remains |
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| Together and Separate, Always |
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My History, ...no mystery, ...no mythology.
I began an interest in asian ideas and associated exercises at about
the age of eight. I did not become seriously organized about this until the age of ten. Like many children with oppressive
parents and anagonistic neighbor children, my early goals were 'omnipotence' and 'survival'. It took time for me to
understand that pursuing warrior-ways inhibits spirit balance. I had an aptitude for insightfulness and did
connect with teachers of talent and compassion.
From an introduction of judo, aiki-jiujitu
and fukien-sanshien, my first duo of teachers were T.T.Liang and John ChungLi in Boston (Mr.Li wished for me
to be his first protege'); I was unaware at the time that that Mr. Li was also a student of Msr.Han Xing
Yuan (which resulted in his mixing of Yi-Quan with LiuHeBaFa as the "HuaYo-TaiChi"
he was then teaching ). I was also unaware that T.T.Liang was the protege-lineage master-teacher of grand-master Chen
Man-ching.
My second duo (or trio) of teachers was in San Francisco: Mr.
Ho (a student of Sun LuTang), his friend Kuo Lien Ying (a student of Wang Xiang Jai), and Jiu MoonJiao (a student of Mr.Ho
and also of Chen Yik Yan and Han Xing Yuan); also Moon was a longtime friend of Henry Look and Fong Ha.
When I look back at these teachers, it is surprising that I
did not seek any of them, we just connected; amazing in itself.
Influential:
Morehei Ueshiba, Spirit
Jiu MoonJiao Professor of ancient chinese history and philosphy at San
Francisco State University, he could perceive thru and past the Taoist Canon.
Ho LingTze, closest mindset to Starwars' Master Yoda. Also, his stories about the kindness of his teacher Sun LuTang and how much Msr.
Sun disliked fighting.
Han XingYuan, his advise 'don't waste your life learning martial art'...'if
you want to kill someone, get a gun; ...a job and making money is more useful'
...to the tree-limb in San Francisco that broke with the wind and fell from
above to where I was practicing zhan zhuang-standing-post: ...'nice try'.
...to the tree-leaf, that I sensed falling and incoming that I caught and
let rest on my shoulder as I walked and then let repel down my arm until it rested in my hand, ... we moved together
without the need to 'push'.
Ho LingTze :
... I met a teacher who became a friend
... his words were similar and simple:
....'do not call me SIFU, I am
not your father'
...'do not call me master, that responsibility is yours'
...'I will be your guide, and a friend you
will lose'
...'bow to yourself, not to me'
...'find what you need, farm, fish, and hunt..you'll need all'
...'learn
what's needed'... 'want can wait'
...'don't get stuck on serious'
| The power side of the family |
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Famous Places-Famous People:
Lineage: [LiuHeBaFa]
<0>Wu
YiHui [founder LiuHeBaFa]
<1>Liang
ZhiPeng (BaGua-LHBF)
<1>Fang PakXing (TaiChi-LHBF)
<2>Li Chung <3>Foxx
<1>Chen YikYan<2>Li Chung<3>Foxx
<2>Kam
Tung<3>Jiu MoonJiao<4>Foxx
<2>Jiu MoonJiao <3>Foxx
<0>'Water-style' friend of
Sun LuTang [Shanghai]
<1>Ho LingTze [water qigong+water-style boxing] <3>Foxx
Lineage: [Xin- Yi ~ Yi-Quan]
<0>Kuo YunShen [Grandmaster XingYi]
<1>Wang
XiangZhai..(1886-1963), [YiQuan-QiGong].
<2>Kuo LienYing (1895-1984) [Universal QiGong] <3>Foxx
<2>Han XingYuan<3>Li Chung<4>Foxx
<2>Han XingYuan<3>Jiu MoonJiao <4>Foxx
<2>Han XingYuan <3>Foxx
<0>KuoYunShen
<1>Sun LuTang (1861-1933)...[XingYi, BaGua, TaiJi]
<2>Ho LingTze (1903-1993) [XinYi-QiGong] <3>Foxx
Lineage: [TaiJi-styles]
Yang Lu-Chan--Yang Ban-Hou
|-Wang Jiao-Yu->
<0>Cheng ManChing (1900-1975)
<1>T.T. (TungTsai)
Liang <2>Foxx
Lineage: Guo-Lin [Walking QiGong]
<0>Guo Lin (1906-1984).
<1>Berta LinChi (Daughter GuoLin) <2> Foxx
Lineage: AiKiDo-Qi
Lineage: Fukien Style 'PanGaiNoon'
<0>Kanei Uechi [Fujin SanShin] <2>Foxx
<1>Ted
Danson <2> Foxx
| Brick #102653, Sect.P74 |
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| Coco, Conner Foxx, PoPo, JouJou |
For the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in
1987, a memorial walkway comprised of personalized bricks was constructed at the southeast side of the Bridge in the visitor
area, just north of the Strauss Statue. The walkway program was implemented in March 1988 with 7,416 bricks sold.
Walkway Section: P74, Brick #102653,
is inscribed:
"COCO & CONNER FOXX POPO & JOUJOU"
Degree Programs:
Physics/Mathematics, Boston University,
Boston
BioChemistry-PreMedical, Suffolk Univ.,
Boston
Systems Analysis Design, Berkeley-Univ.
California,
Graphics Design, Institute Art, Boston
Traditional Chinese Medicine, Min-An,
SanFrancisco
Medical Therapeutics, WatPo, Bangkok
Real World Pursuits:
CV&P-NuclearPower-Licensing; Tinsley Labs-MarsLander,
Hubble SpaceTelescope; SybexPublishers-MarketingResearch; TRW-InfoSystems-Technical DB/Documentation; ambroTek-MedicalProductsDevelopment.
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| ...a man for all seasons |
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| Sun Lu-Tang |
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"To many people's mind, a wushu master is a
rough man with little education, in sharp contrast with a polite scholar in weak constitution. But Sun Lutang (1861-1933)
is a notable exception. His life was one of many interesting -- even mysterious -- anecdotes and antidotes, but it might be
the unity of these opposites that has made his unique Sun style of taijiquan possible.
Creativity: Born in
a poor family in Wanxian County, Hebei Province, Sun was orphaned and received only one year of schooling. As an apprentice
in Baoding, he learned the form-and-will school from Li Kuiyan, who thought that the pupil had surpassed him and recommended
him to the famous Master Guo Yunshen for further studies. After the gruelling exercises late at night, Sun would burn a stick
of incense and tie the other end to his hand before going to bed. When the glow touched his skin, he would jump out of bed
for a morning session. During his stay in Beijing, he had the opportunity to learn baguazhang (eight-diagram palm) from Cheng
Tinghua and Li Yuanzhong, disciples of Dong Haichuan. In all these years Sun also applied himself to academic pursuits, thinking
that one with great physical but little intellectual power is an incomplete man. He read widely, jotting down every wise saying
and pondering over it again and again. He was deeply interested in calligraphy which was a source of joy and inspiration to
him. "I wield a brush like a sword and wield a sword like a brush," he philosophized. |
In the Sun-style exercises one can see dodges, stretches, jumps
and holds -- movements hinged on the waist and reminiscent of the eight-diagram palm. At the same time, there are rises, falls,
charges and body turns -- movements with an explosive force but no definite forms that are characteristic of the form-and-will
exercises. Still it is taijiquan in essence with its circular, graceful, continuous movements, in which mobility is combined
with immobility and solidness with voidness in a harmonious way.
Morality First: Sun was
well known for his generosity. When a heavy drought hit his native land in 1922, he returned home with all his savings and
lent them to the most needy. Next spring, he called his debtors together and burned all the bills in their presence. According
to the Annals of Wanxian County, a woman was going to remarry because her husband had left her for many years and she could
no longer support her children on her own. Sun Lutang gave her a huge sum of money, which he said was sent by her husband.
It was some time later when her husband came home that the woman came to know that he had never asked anyone to send money
home.
Sun often told his disciples and children
that a real wushu master had "a virtuous tongue and virtuous hands", which means that he would neither speak evil of others
behind their back nor hurt any one except when he is forced to counterattack a malicious person in self defence. In 1923 a
Japanese bushido society sent a strongman named Sakagaki to China to challenge Sun. He said arrogantly that he would break
Sun's arms and sneered at the sight of his slim figure. But the ruffian was knocked down in the first bout. In 1930, six Japanese
challengers came to Sun's home. To show off their physical power, one of them kicked away a stone bench in the backyard. Sun
lay down on the ground and asked one of them to hold his head, four to hold his limbs and one just to stand by and count one,
two, three. They did as they were told to. At the sound of "three", Sun broke loose and jumped up and all his opponents were
thrown to the ground. On both occasions, the challengers owned defeat and invited him to teach martial arts in Japan, offering
him a handsome sum of money in advance. But Sun declined and said that he just wanted to teach them a lesson that the Chinese
people were not to be insulted |
| But it was not until he was in his fifties that his philosophical
ideas reached maturity, resulting in the creation of a new style of taijiquan -- to some extent by accident.
One day he came across a sick man
wandering in a street in Beijing. Upon inquiry he came to know that the vagrant, Hao Weizhen, had failed to find out his friend
he had turned to for help. Sun took him to his own home and nursed him back to health. In return for his kindness, Hao offered
to teach him the Wu-style taijiquan he had inherited from its founder Wu Yuxiang. Unlike the conservative-minded masters prejudiced
against other schools, Sun was ready to take up something new and spent two years studying the Wu style, into which he put
the best points of the form-and-will and eight-diagram exercises to form the Sun style taijiquan. Needless to say, this would
not have been possible without a thorough knowledge of the three, high accomplishments in philosophy and literature, great
creativeness and broad vision on the part of the founder. |
Sun served as director of the Wudang School Department
of the Central Wushu Academy in Nanjing and headmaster of Jiangsu Wushu Academy in Zhenjiang. In the summer of 1933 he told
his children that he was homesick, for "all leaves fall to join the roots" as the saying goes. On November 29 that year, he
told them at his birthplace that he was going to die next month. They paid little heed to his words, thinking that they were
spoken in a daydream. Exactly 30 days later, the father called them together and told them one story after another about the
family's history. Then he closed his eyes -- never to open again in his eternal sleep.
He has left behind him a number of works:
A Study of Taiji, A Study of Form-and-Will Exercises, A Study of Eight-Diagram Palm Exercises, A Study of Eight-Diagram Swordplay
and Essentials of Martial Arts, which are regarded as priceless heritages today. |
Copyright, China Sports Publications Corp.
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