Okay, pretending that you want to know. I’m going to really go off, but just this one time. If your questions aren’t answered, tough. This is probably all you will ever know about this, so pay attention. I won’t bother myself with this again.
CLC and Lum Yew Gwai, Yip Man and some others were friends of Doo Wai’s father. After he left home, he sought them out and there was info and friendship exchanged. This was after being raised as the inheritor of the style. When his father passed, he DID suddenly become the grandmaster. This allowed him into many inner circles and exposed to many styles from the GM’s themselves.
Alot of the seemingly “peripheral” material is reconstituted from Fung Do Duk’s legacy of herbal and martial texts. Of course, the gung fu system and family heritage INCLUDES medical and culinary skills. Doo Wai will have his very first videos out soon, and they are going to be Chinese rural cooking.
Do you know what a “bootleg” is? Doo Wai didn’t make any bootlegs. He made tapes for people claiming to be collectors and such, not imagining what WOULD happen and frankly quite ignorant of video and the nature of Americans. Some were for the Navy, some stuff for private investigators, some material goes to people throwing around his friends names, wanting to help the handicapped or homeless and/or gathering info to piece together their own systems, like “White Tiger Kempo” and “18 Taoist Palms” etc. etc.
“200 different handforms” etc. where are you pulling this from? He’s probably forgotten more than he knows offhand and he probably doesn’t practice much anymore and why should he? He never had the choice really, but MA people are really sucking nowadays. I can see why it wouldn’t be very interesting to him to be involved with people who suck off him and then backstab him. One major KF celeb seemingly got to polishing his sword so much that he forgot GM Doo had letters from him thanking for his herbal formulas and started talking smack. Another, hungry for potions, adopted some Doo Family recipes, even though his brand was “shaolin” and then started dribbling BS. Hollywood types at least are full of themselves already! The only thing good in America, apparently, is that it’s not your own people trying to kill you!
You see, this system and others like it, is all Doo Wai has ever studied. Yes, he hangs with Hollywood types, has known Jackie, Samo and Michelle for many yrs, has treated the likes of Muhammad Ali and Richard Pryor and extended and bettered thier lives. He gets letters from Her Majesty the Queen and has had lunch with De Niro more than once. He taught Bruce Lee and Joe Lewis. Wesley Snipes comes over to train and he’s taught self defense to Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler. He is invited to Premiers on both coasts and he can even be seen on some production credits.
And so who are YOU? What is your beef with this man who has never advertized himself or sought exposure in any way? What do you think you know about him that isn’t from Lacy’s BS? You must resent him for his low profile.
You have asked for and been given much and apparently digested none of it. You cannot spell, but you aren’t stupid, so I suspect you are up to something. I think MoQ is right, you are from San Diego, so you know about Jim Lacy. If you think his gungfu or his posture as a “5-Elder grandmaster” are valid, then your grasp of your own Bak Mei is pretty dang shallow.
Oddly enough, in the 80’s, a private investigator requested Bak Mei forms on video for his “collection of rare KF styles”. They showed up, Doo Wai ran through some forms(marking them) and they left. This was unauthorized by Bak Mei Pai, so this was the excuse used to disseminate it further and then to Lacy an excuse to make claims around it, like “The Original Bak Mei from the White Eyebrow monk himself” and blame Doo Wai for whatever happened. Of CLC’s forms, there are 15. GM Doo took the opportunity to mark the collection with 3 more forms, totalling 18 forms. 18 handforms= unauthorized and illegal Bak Mei material. No wonder you are anti-CLC.
Basically anyone in the San Diego area teaching Bak Mei from the monk and not CLC(who named it “Bak Mei” fool) is a Lacy cohort and teaching out fake Bak Mei as a non-CLC “original, from the monk himself” BS system.
[This message was edited by Fubokuen on 10-24-00 at 05:51 PM.]