ATTN: New Authentic Shaolin Kung Fu School

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ATTN: New Authentic Shaolin Kung Fu School

Hello,
My name is Marcus and i’m a ambassordor for my Kung Fu school. We’ve just open and i’m promoting our school as well trying to pass on some knowledge and tradition.

                            Bio of the Grandmaster

   Eighteen Degree Red/Black Sash
                                        World Gold Medalist
                                        Certified in Tibet fo China
                                        Acupuncture & Acupressure Specialist

The school is located in Richmond, Virginia
He teaches and specailizes in the teaching of Kung fu (12 animal based Nothern style), Wing Chung, Tai Chi, Kick boxing and Yoga

We work only on appoinments.
If you need any further information or would like to set up an appointment you can reach me at Wiseman299@hotmail.com and once again my name is Marcus

Thank you for your time

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>Eighteen Degree Red/Black Sash

In what? From which lineage is his wing chun?

>World Gold Medalist

Which tournament?

>He teaches and specailizes in the teaching of Kung
>fu (12 animal based Nothern style), Wing Chung,
>Tai Chi, Kick boxing and Yoga

Busy dude…

BTW good luck with the school, I think… :stuck_out_tongue:

Bob

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And I would like to point out that I am still not teaching inauthentic non Shaolin out north of nowhere…

Carry on.

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Does this “Grandmaster”, “18thdegree Red sash”, “World Gold Medalist” have a name? :slight_smile:

Keith

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KPM the name is: Qader Noorzad

“wizztwit299” also posted this on the Shaolin Forum (KFM)

XLW

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hmmm… same guy?

It took only 3 years to get that 18th degree as well as learn multiple martial arts AND yoga? Sign me up!!!

Afghan emigre goes home

Posted on Fri, Jun. 06, 2003
During a two-month-long trip, a Phila. businessman will assess the situation at cleaned up fields for a U.S. nonprofit.

By Maria Panaritis

Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer

Qader Noorzad leaves for Afghanistan today. The 32-year-old expatriate will show off his newborn to in-laws. His wife will catch up with family. He will gauge the possibility of running for office next year in his newly democratic homeland.

But the martial arts instructor with studios in Berwyn and Philadelphia also will squeeze in a task that binds him to a cadre of Philadelphia-area strangers: He will visit six minefields cleared of explosives.

Noorzad will snap photos, interview locals and, much like a newspaper reporter, send dispatches to the United Nations Association’s Adopt-A-Minefield fund-raising program.

Noorzad says he was 13 when he took up arms. By day he went to high school in Bamiyan; by night he was a U.S.-backed rebel, he said.

It was “a very harsh life,” he said.

In 1989, with Afghan warlords turning on one another, a dispirited Noorzad went to Pakistan. The next three years, he studied Buddhism and the martial arts in Tibet, founding a martial arts academy in Peshawar.

In 1992, eager for a higher education, he immigrated to Philadelphia on a visa issued by the U.S. embassy in return for having fought the Soviets, he said.

Noorzad earned a bachelor’s in environmental health and sciences from Hahnemann University Hospital and a master’s in occupational health and science from the University of Delaware. He became a naturalized citizen in 1996.

In 1998 he returned to Afghanistan and wed. Eight months ago, his first child was born, a boy. This is Noorzad’s first trip to Afghanistan since Taliban rule.

Noorzad, who is entrusting his Berwyn and Wissinoming martial arts academies to associates while he is gone for two months, said he may begin campaigning for a nomination for the 2004 regional elections in Afghanistan.

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Sounds like McKwoon .

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planetwc

that’s him

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planetwc

he’s been practicing for over 32 years

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Originally posted by wiseman299
he’s been practicing for over 32 years
Practising what, martial arts? From the age of 2?

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I think since he started training when he was six or seven, but I will ask today in class. His son is now 2, he knows how to kick, punch, flip. His third word was “Tao.” My Master starts teaching students at the age of three so why do you think it’s impossible for him to have begun that early? Also survival is a way of life for many, in other countries there’s a constant threat so they have to learn to protect themselves a lot early then us in the USA.

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Guys I’m not trying to start anything like some of you, I’m just trying to pass on the knowledge that has been bestowed upon me. I’m just trying to point you guys in the direction of a great teacher, that not only teaches your the philosophy behind everything he teaches but also the application that is greatly missing from numerous teachers that I have seen teach.

For the non believers that think he couldn’t possibly reach that level, I’m sure your also the people that swore on life that the world was flat. Hope you guys get my point

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Your teacher probably does have fighting experience and background coming from Afghanistan and the environment that was present there.

What rings strange is the use of terms like:

World Gold Medalist
18th degree red belt

  1. Since when would Afghanistan be a hotbed for Shaolin teachers, or Wing Chun for that matter?

  2. During the period of Soviet occupation and then followed by the Taliban, where would there be formal or informal martial arts training?

Activities such as those would have been outlawed by both regimes.
Who would have been in place in Afghanistan of all places to teach such diverse mainstream arts to the general populace or to mujahadeen?
Training for insurgents would more involve AK47s, RPGs, and stinger missle use, not push hands, chi sao or shaolin forms.

What world class event was the gold medal achieved from?

Why an 18th degree? Most belt ranking systems derive from Japanese Judo and Karate and stop at a 10th degree level.

People like Joe Lewis, the greatest US Kickboxer doesn’t have an 18th degree, nor does Helio Gracie or any of his sons (like Rickson Gracie) or relatives. The highest belt rank in Judo is a 10th degree and is normally held by very very old distinguished Judo players, not 32 year old men.

More likely of course, your teacher created his own ranking system within his own organization. As a style founder that is certainly his own right.

And often times the “history” portion is more “marketing” for those people unfamiliar with martial arts in general. It has often been like that. It just raises questions among those folks in the marital arts community with a passing familiarity with martial history and what sounds credible in terms of historical credentials.

That is why you are getting the questioning here. You’ve listed the credentials and they sound rather strange. It’s good marketing to the unwashed masses–but expect to get called on it by folks with experience.

Again, the bottom line is, if your teacher can fight, can teach others to fight well, then more power to him. Lineage isn’t going to save your b*tt in a fight, skill and experience will.

Good luck with your school and enjoy your studies and training.

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he trained in tibet and was also i monk. I will post the answers to your question tommorrow. I haven’t went to class due to an injury the other day practicing my weapon in the snow.

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Dave,

I recently saw a flyer at a local store for a guy teaching Bujinkan Ninjutsu. It said he was an 8th degree, and his teacher in Ontario was 12th or 13th degree or something.

And hey, wasn’t there some 21 year old dude in NY who claimed to have learned at some SEA Shaolin temple and mastered 300 styles or something? Maybe he had classmates…

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300 styles that’s pushing it maybe he got the chair and computer program from the Matrix. Can you even break it down to 300 styles? I think by that point it would be a variation of something else which shouldn’t count as another.

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We work only on appoinments.

And I’m sure the phone’s ringing off the hook.

FWIW, my instructor won “world kung fu championships” in HK in 1982/83. He’s only a 7th Level master, not 18th, but that’s as far as the grading system goes.

One of my sidais was a Gold Medallist in the World Masters Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championships in Rio this year.

We don’t work on appointments, but maybe we’ve not reached the same exalted level yet.

BTW, what’s this “Wing Chung” stuff?

I’m sure this guy’s done it tough and has skills, but the cult of personality type advertising tends to insult the intelligence.

Good luck.

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To all the people who had question I’ll answer them as I try to remember.

There’s only one style of Wing Chung

Karate belt really only goes up to 8 the 9th and 10 was just implemented for lets say business.

In Kung Fu there’s really no belts but you have to equate to another system for business reason.

He’s in the 18th chamber out of 36 which for business means 18th degree actually really higher though
@ our blue belt we should be were a black belt in another system

He started training at 4

He has also trained for several years (sorry is i miss spell there names) but people you would/should know

Maurice Smith
Johnny Pere

He won a gold medal in 1987 in Singapore

Any other questions?

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Yes,

is the Kool-Aid that good?

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Eventually he will figure it out.