if it isn’t to rude of me to ask, what did you change for the iron body/palm videos?
how’s YOUR web fu?
hasayfu: Thanks for the props. Next time, jump in. Don’t just be the shidi in the corner applauding as the shixiong claens up the challengers. There’s enough room for you to stick a boot in yourself. 
gwa sow: For Iron Palm, the big modification is that in GM Ku Yu Cheong’s original method, you used a crane beak strike as the last of the four. Sifu Lam felt that had two problems - 1. that it displaced the beans or balls in the bag in such a way that eventually you’d have to break pattern and fluff you bag, if you will and 2. it messed up your fingernails. So he changed it, spreading the fingers. Arguable, BSL never uses an open finger strike like that, but Sifu Lam felt it transfered to the crane beak attack well enough, and that is the way he teaches it at his school.
As for Iron Body, the system on the video was completely different that the BSL Iron Body. There was no way to teach BSL Iron Body over video, so Sifu Lam constructed something completely new based on his research.
Wing Lam’s Tiger Crane…
I thought this video was pretty good… He did the form nice and the section by section was good from 2 angles… i liked seeing his students in there also to see another persons movements…
I am not a Hung Gar player so Couldn’t judge the form other than he had good movement…
I remember seeing one of his BSL videos, pretty good also… But my favorite is when he is beating up on poor Gene… lol!!! I think it was the Chin Na video…
Only one complaint…
That music in the tiger crane video can make a man insane…
Sounds like Chinese clown music…
I don’t think that was your choice Gene…
or was it? 
Joe
Chinese clown music
Ahhh, the music. Yeah, that was another point of contention. Most of it came from some odd Chinese sources which were considered by the company to be free access. I’ve always had issues with music tracks on videos. Sow Choy, you can mix it up yourself (DJ Handsome Joe, eh?) but most companies either steal it or purchase it. TC Media purchased a bunch of music for our videos - there are actually vendors who specialize in this sort of background music. But to me, it all sounds like bad porn music. Is that better than Chinese clown music? At least it’s paid for.
I’m working on a video project now where I’ve hired a musician to do something special for me. It should be really fun, but I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag just yet, so keep your ears open…
As for those Chin Na videos, those really sucked for me. We shot those in the dead of winter. Sifu Lam’s school was a converted ice rink back then, so it was freakin’ freezing. If you look really closely, sometimes you can see the fog from our breath. Me and Chet were the fall guys and we had to stand around in our t-shirts and KF pants in the cold, taking turns while Sifu Lam poked us in unpleasant places. I remember thinking that I had made a serious wrong turn in my life to have to do that to earn my living. On the up-side, if you check out the training videos, you’ll not only see some of my original artwork (I did all the “Chinese style” monk training paintings) you’ll also see me doing three-finger push-ups, clapping in between. I could even do two-fingers with a clap then, but it was so cold for those shoots that I thought my fingers were going to snap off. Nowadays, with my ever-expanding qi belly, I’m luck when I can do push ups at all
You know, the more I think about it, the more I see a real market for musical Chinese clown porn.
I think it would be a hit in the art houses!
Kung Lek,
you know most western male martial artists have yellow fever… I am actually thinking of making a Chinese phrase book to sell at our school. So many new students wish to learn, and so many come in with the waiter black jacket with the white buttons in the hot weather of Florida… Ha ha ha!!!
Joe
I think Gene knows that, alot of asian “Got Qi” girls in the mag… Man, they even framed me once with a picture talking to Margie and Judy with a quote "Joe Keit and the Got Qi girls… I still get picked on for that… My sifu likes to call me “Handsome Joe”, hahaha, much better than ugly kid joe I must say…
I am actually thinking of making a Chinese phrase book to sell at our school.
It would be really interesting if you made the phrase book work like the one from the monty python skit, wherein all the phrases were lewd and suggestive.
you know, just to give them a chance to use their fu. heh heh
“my neeples explode with desire”
Chinese phrase books
The bible of Mandarin street language, Outrageous Chinese, has been around for years. Y’all should check it out instead of chui niu bi :eek: :eek:
And Joe, that pic caught the real handsome joe kung fu style better than any other pic we have ever taken of you, including the posed ‘sow choy’ shot I just took this year in latest issue.
Hey, I like that clown music. Then again, I don’t watch the videos much…
I remember I used to watch a bunch of the “previews” and that music would get stuck in my head. Aaargh.
I like the porn analogy. Now if you ever hear the clown music you’ll think Wing Lam Kung Fu. LOL
As for Gene’s marketing strategy… Sex sells. 'nuff said. I remember his early “pushes” for the WLE catalog.
Wing Lam’s Xingyi???
I know that this is probably the wrong forum for this question but can anyone give an opinion on Wing Lam’s Xingyi videos???
Xingyiman, I asked about recommendations for Hebei style Hsing-I videos on the internal forum some time ago, and some people recommended Wing Lam’s to me. They said while he does sun style hsing-I, it is very similiar to Hebei style, and watching the videos makes you feel like you are actually in his class learning them. I hope that helped. Peace.