Black Belt Magazine’s 2nd Annual Festival of Martial Arts
Long Beach Convention Center (Hall A)
July, 28, 29, 30
I’ll be in L.A. with William Cheung and Keith Mazza from July 26th until Aug. 3rd. There will be 2 hour clinics with different martial artists. William Cheung’s clinic will be on Sat. July 29 from 12:30 - 2:30. I will be meeting with my old Sifu Alan Lamb and I hope to meet Ernie and Dale while I’m there. If anyone else wants to meet with me please email me.
PR
Hey Phil
I might have another suprise KFO guest from canada , for you to meet , on sunday i think after noon i can take you both to get some cuban food !!! If you got some wheels maybe we can all meet at Gary’s ! around 11 and then head out from there …
i’m busy both sat and sun mornings but should be able to free up my afternoons 
Yeah, I will be competing there… should be a monster of an event.
Hopefully, we can get our schedules to coordinate.
Phil, could you please pass on my regards to Alan, he was also my first instructor back in '74/'76 at the Whitehall Road School in Gateshead. He won’t remember the skinny 14 year old, but I have fond memories and appreciate that he started me on what has become a 32 year passage down the Wing Chun trail.
Cheers Trevor Jefferson
Hey Ernie, I’ll see you Sunday then.
Dale, when are you competing? I’d like to see you.
tjwingchun, I’ll tell him when I see him. Are you anywhere near Manchester? That’s where Alan said he’s from.
PR
Dale if your free sunday afternoon maybe we can all get some food !!! good luck at the comp .
What a great opportunity to exchange. I hope you take advantage of it Dale. Some great WC people there. Good luck in your comp.
Nope Felling, Gateshead is just over the river from Newcastle where I think he was from, but cannot swear by that.
Much of the time the class was run by a senior student Alec Au, when Alan was off furthering his personal Wing Chun knowledge.
I know he trained a bit in Manchester and was a friend of Danny Connor who was from there, Danny was a canny lad who unfortunately died in 2000, but he did much to promote all the MA’s in the UK, Karate and Tai Chi, as well as Wing Chun. It was only a few years back that one of Alan’s associates also died, John Darwin from Preston, another genuine character who was instrumental in getting Wing Chun off the ground in the UK.
Just glad to hear that Alan is still fighting fit as I heard quite some years ago from Danny that he suffered a very serious illness.
I was training the same time as Kevin Steele and Alan Agar, who Alan might remember, Alan Agar still teaches in the North East, whereas the last time I talked to Kevin he was living in Hong Kong and working for Alec Au I believe.
Hope you have a good meet, its what the Wing Chun community needs more dialogue across the so-called different styles, we should be celebrating personal differences/abilities accepting their skills and learning from them.
I’ll be competing in the sub-grappling tourney. I’ll probably be doing two or three different divisions in the advanced category.
I haven’t yet decided about the BJJ tournament. If I do compete there, you’ll be able to find me in the black belt matches.
Not sure which tourney is on Saturday and which is on Sunday… need to find that out.
What days will you be there?
Sounds like a lot of fun.
I’ll be there all three days. I left you a voice message this morning.
Phil
I agree with you. I have friends in all “styles” of WC.
You may be right. Alan may be from Newcastle and only taught in Manchester. I’ll pass the names onto him when I see him. He just called me while I was at the Kuoshu tourney in MD. I actually saw kung fu people who could fight full contact standup there. Go figure . . .:rolleyes:
PR
Are there going to be any fellow intermediate students coming? I’d like to get a feel for the hands of some other WC schools without getting tossed around like a sack of potatoes for 10 minutes straight. :o
KF,
I just wanted to wish you the best in your upcoming competitions!
I got to hang out with Gary Lam, Alan Lamb, Ernie, Matrix, and the very popular ;), Dale Frank while in L.A. Thanks to them all for their hospitality.
PR
Phil,
it was just killer to get to hang out with you and meet your students , awesome people , great atitudes and most of all wing chun crazy ! but your more wing chun crazy then all of them … Phil i always knew you were a great guy , but meeting you really brought that into reality …
still owe you some cuban food and sorry i was burned out , my new boss has me on lock down ,
hey man send me some pictures !
Thanks Ernie, your guys are great. I loved L.A. I got to go Salsa dancing and I did get to eat at a Cuban restaurant. You might see me there again real soon. I’ll send you some pics tonight. I just got back today and I need some sleep.
Phil
Oops
I forgot to mention that I met Matrix. He’s a nice guy as well. There were some other forum members at Gary Lam’s as well but I don’t remember their screen names. 
Phil
Pics from L.A.
Me and Dale
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Lam3
PR
Awesome pictures Phil, looks like everyone was havin some fun..
Dale, you look pretty ripped, and your in your late 40’s???
J
