It’s a little weird you’re singling out Reeders school when you studied with a guy who evidently did most of his studies long distance.
okay, setting aside the fact that you’re a troll who claims no sifu is adequate to teach you at your level in the whole Seattle area, and recently become the champion of MacDojos…Wtf are you talking about? My Sifu Mr Lin was born and raised in Taiwan up through his late twenties when he emigrated here.. a life-long martial artist. A student of Taiwan’s own Yim Bai Hsia, who was himself a student of a shaolin monk :rolleyes:
If you had any credibility at all left, with this kind of ignorant and unfounded statement you would be eroding it, but there’s nothing left to erode.
oh, I think you could only be referencing a seminar I mentioned having taken with Sifu Jake Burroughs… That was cross training. My core is shaolin kung fu as trained at Lin’s Martial Arts Academy here in Albuquerque where I have been a student in good standing for years. Plus several years of Shorin Ryu from a yon-dan of Matsumura, and the personal insights I gained subduing numerous violent @ssholes at my work as a bartender concurrent with my training.
it’s a wonder I can find someone suitable to learn from :rolleyes: lol
Way to go Sherlock… i hope your 'fu is better than your ability on the forum because if not I imagine you are one permanently lumped-up @sshat.
Being a fraud or not says nothing about how popular you are.
That’s the whole point of being a fraud, to gain popularity and to gain other material things based on the gullibilty of others.
The people who are most uncomfortable with being called frauds are the actual frauds. lol
If someone is genuine, then they’ll act it in the face of detraction. There’s nothing wrong with telling someone to f off. It is perfectly acceptable, except that frauds don’t do this, they tend to lead you on a little path that will go nowhere and hopefully take enough turns that you’ll get lost in the double speak and nonsense to bother with the relevant poiint to begin with which is, they are fraudulent.
Frauds can survive a long time and even go through an entire lifetime and subsequently pass their lie along to others until way down the line truth smacks down one of them and they are forced to reassess.
correction may or may not occur. years will add to the treacherous behaviour of a fraud. they refine their lies and begin to believe them as truths themselves.
Often, the solution is the short/sharp/shock. Many never receive this most helpful life tool.
I dunno man. It is unfair to expect people to tell the difference when they have nothing to base any observation on experientially.
for instance a person with no training whatsoever wouldn’t know what is and what is not corrct.
a person with a little training only has perspective in regards to that which he has been taught and can for the most part only speak to that experience.
a person with training over a longer period of time that has experienced results and has visited more than one type of training will likely have the most open perspective about it.
a person with a lot of training in at least one art and a taste of several others, direct experience with what works and what doesn’t is the one who will be able to more easily detect the BS because the errors will be glaringly evident to them.
as for historical stuff, well some stuff is easily disprovable, such as everything on that site that has been noted in thsi thread. It contradicts everything that is not only accepted mythologically but the factual as well. To claim that Reeders is certified by a dead Dalai Lama is just a total crock of sh1t and it shines the light of suspicion on him for letting that be out there about him or by making that remark himself.
teh good thing about the internet is that the bullsh1t artists are getting to be fewer and fewer due to the rapid communication lines available.
faling like flies from the burn of their own lies. good riddance I say. they ahve done enough damage as is.
I have done a LOT of research on Reeders, de Thouars, Willie Wetzel, and all those people.
And it’s mired a lot in politics.
But have you gone through and broken down their forms? Have you looked at their techniques in the basis of silat and different CMA systems?
Having done this I don’t think that I can discount the possibility that somebody in the lineage studied CMA. In fact, I think it’s a very obvious fact that somebody in their lineage studied CMA and quite intensively because much of what these people do isn’t the same as some other silat.
But, yes, what’s on that site doesn’t quite add up. The 13th Dalai Lama died in 1933. Reeders supposedly started at age 12, in the early 30s, so the Dalai Lama would have been dead by the time he was 24 if he finished his 12 years of study.
there is a school in Charlotte NC that goes by ‘Hall of the Peaceful Dragon’ and the teacher is good and the students he has that choose to fight, can fight.
the ones that choose to do forms, can do forms very well.
IMHO, he does a good job of giving students what they want and developing them in the direction they wish to go.
props, to Sifu S’barge.
FTR, it’s the only school I’ve ever seen that has ‘peaceful dragon’ in thier name.
The school where I train Qixing at has been put on hold as my sifu has to work nights. I dont have the means or time to travel to any of the further away lessons that he runs (I travelled 2 hours to get to the one that just stopped) so I need to find a substitute venue until it starts it back up again.
I have more than enough qixing material to practice so I am basically thinking of finding a temporary venue where I can use their equiptment/space to train.
I came across a place in london that has a couple of halls, a gym and bags/pad/matts. They also teach a variety of M/As from BJJ and Muay Thai to ‘Wushu Kwan’. The MA gym is quite inexpensive and classes are included within the monthly payment. I figured seen as this is the case, I might as well take part if only for the sparring practice.
Anyways back to topic. They teach ‘Wushu Kwan’. I googled it and from what ive seen (GI’s, belts etc) it looks a bit sketchy???
Does anyone have any info on this please? Is it just contemporary wushu or is it some weird MCDOJO style. Also, any info on C.K Chang?
I would just like to know what you guys think in terms of it being a temporary place to train mantis with the occassional class for sparring purposes?
Wushu Kwan seems to be a UK thing, I’ve only seen it in the US once, in the 1980’s, it looked like Taekwondo with some CMA thrown in to make it “cool”… honestly, it looked like the epitomy of McDojo/Bullshido
[QUOTE=lkfmdc;838110]Wushu Kwan seems to be a UK thing, I’ve only seen it in the US once, in the 1980’s, it looked like Taekwondo with some CMA thrown in to make it “cool”… honestly, it looked like the epitomy of McDojo/Bullshido[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the info Lucas. The place holds a collection of different MA. You’re right about the BJJ community, I will try to get the teachers name.
Wushu Kwan seems to be a UK thing, I’ve only seen it in the US once, in the 1980’s, it looked like Taekwondo with some CMA thrown in to make it “cool”… honestly, it looked like the epitomy of McDojo/Bullshido
Yea I was thinking the exact same thing. Every image I have seen has been of them flying about or breaking bricks. That doubled with the GIs/belt system pretty much leads me to agree with you. Like I mentioned earlier…Its really the training space that I am after and the gym.
If my Qixing lessons dont start back up soon then Ill be looking for a decent class…just a shame that there is no Mantis in London. The NamYang guys are pretty cool from what I have seen, maybe ill give them a look.
I have been to some of their classes before, its a good workout, very karate like and they think there chinese for some reason. They fight more like kickboxers than anything but they do train hard, not sure if this is any help but they sure don’t feel like any kung fu I have ever done
Practitioners of Wu Shu Kwan hold two Guinness World Records: for the ‘highest jumping kick’ and ‘breaking the most wooden boards in 2 minutes’.
The Wu Shu Kwan people I met at competitions in the in the 80’s told me the style that they practiced was a mix of wing chun & hung gar, as both styles are not exactly famous for there kicks, I do find it strange.
