EarthDragon:
First of all, you name I heard that Shyun gave you, I remembered the I-Chin " the book of change" under the 1st sign it mentions about the dragon under the earth, maybe you should take a look.
Shyun has learned alot alright, but no one ever taught him. He just mimic form others(but they are mostly good martial arts). But he must make up all the not understand parts since he can’t formally asking them. That is why he is different form others and mix alot movements that is not belong to 8step into his system. GM Wei never taught him.
Just think that did he ever show you any pictures of GM Wei? (if GM Wei was so close to his family in relationship) Did he ever show he and GM Wei together on same picture? Did he ever show any of his young years of 8step practice pictures?(his parents should be so proud of him) Did he ever show you any things(like trophies or documents) to show he won any martial art contest? Did he ever tell you the location and time he has being a Chinese Medical professor? Did he show you any documents of his teaching at the Taiwanese Marine Crop?
I know that you are very respectful to your Master, but that is were you are vulnerable and can be cheat on. I can tell you that he don’t have any of them. Try it yourself. Master Wei will never fool the public with a specially made less quality system just to save the special better one for only one. That will be very dishonerable. What kind of human beeing do you think GM Wei is? His shifu Feng don’t have 2 different systems, so is the rest of the anccestors, why should he create that? In fact, that is the cover up for his own made up skill form his peeping of other artists since he knows that his fake stuff will not be the same.
My father has been with GM Wei since Shyun was only 2 and a half years old. Chat with GM Wei daily until 1983 (about 30 years with GM Wei). And my father was GM Wei’s good friend until 15 years later that some students brought up the Tudi issue. GM Wei said that he don’t want to enforce on the Tudi relationships, it is no use. Shifu and Tudi should see each outher heart to heart like a faimily, calling not important. If the heart is not there, the Tudi can be acting very respectful in front of Shifu, but done other wise when shifu turned his back. If the heart is there, even no calling shifu to him, he will be happy because he knows that you will do anythings just like he would doesn’t matter when and where. So he said if you must choose the tudi system, I will have my elderest student who knows me and my art the best as the head of my disciple. There, my father was made the head of the disciple of GM Wei. Then again, I have more picture that not yet on the site(thanks MonkSan De, that is the site you can find our photo), the pictures are a part of real proof.
I understand that if it is not because of Shyun, you probably will never find 8 step and Shuai Chiao. But I think God has let him to serve the purpose of introducing these arts. If you want true one, you must look some where else. You can go to his source rather than taken form what his own interpretations of what he stole.
He said he have the book of Feng, did he ever show it to you? Yet, you don’t read Chinese, Let me tell you, there is no secret book(it is a common fiction tale in Chinese stories of martial art). Just think where will he get it from, GM Wei? GM Wei was hung up side down by the Communists for 3 days and escaped with NOTHING more than his own innercloth (they even stripped his shoe off). He has brought nothing to Taiwan but merely his own life when he arrived. There will be no chance of any Feng’s book here. Have a Chinese inspect on that book, it is definitely a fake to my point of view.
If you would like, you can ask Ilya in Taipei, Taiwan to help you to see if Wei was really lived in a mountian and if his family was really rich back in 50 years(he was never rich until he married his rich wife). All documents should still sit there to be found. Ilya can probably ask his master Zhou to help, Zhou is really GM Wei’s late student.
And yet, Shyun never dare to claim his fake when GM Wei was alive.
Plus, to put your own faimly name on top or your master’s art is considered betray the master. The family name should be added by others it indicate different of other students and later on becomes a common calling, not named by your self. Did he has Shyun’s Taichi? I know that there was a different Master Wei called Wei Kuang, he was embarrassed by GM Wei Shiao Tong and never dare to show up again. He taught Shyun’s father some Taichi as my father can recall. If you want to know that story, I can ask my father.
I hope you will find the truth, after all, you are a very serious about respecting and protecting your shifu. This is much as I can tell you now.
If you have any more questions, I will be happy to tell you what I know.
I was told by my TJPM seniors that there used to be kicks including lotus kick in the drill but no one seems to remember how it is done. Hsiao Kai Men, as we know it in TJPM, is done with one partner alway advance and the other alway retreat in a line. So it is basically one sided (Hsiao). For the Dai Kai Men, which is the clip on the tape where Tainan said it is unknown, it is similar to Hsiao Kai Men but both sides get to take turn to do advance and retreat . The kicks are the same. It would seem that the Dai Kai Men could serve as a connector for change at the end of the road. I said to Tainan that if indeed the Kicks are kept in the 8 Step version, which according to him is the only PM in Taiwan that does that, then it is highly likely that GM Jiang Hualong taught it. I believe I somehow rekindled his interest in the drill. Our lineage was descented from the Kung Fu Brother of GM Jiang, so we might have difference but for the most part it is clearly that it’s the same drill with different names. Incidently, Tainan also thinks that Pai An fits the description of Ying Ching Pau Fa (Ying Ching’s counter method) which seems to have something to do with Wong Hon Fun of 7*.