Blind folded Chi Sao

[stonecrusher69]

Ovine King..sorry,I misunderstood you...that's great you have family members who are into MA.

[Menjo]

Yea it seems alot of people have family members in MA, all the people i know who are in MA do anyway

[ovine king]

And you've misunderstood me again

It's not that i ahve family members who are also into martial arts, it is that I have martial arts in the family. Back in hk, my village and that of my cousin's has a few families that have been practicing them form 100 odd years

i.e our grandparents' generation.

[stonecrusher69]

I guess I'm bating 1000..sorry again..

[stonecrusher69]

hey what styles of MA is in your family? are you continuing the tradition?

[ovine king]

No worries.

My closest connection is my grandfather on my mother's side, who used to do some unknown "kung fu" back in his youth. He and his brothers were, I have to say, apparently the equivilant to a local gang back in the day. I never knew this until after I started my own training. On another side of the family, there is a strong Choy Li Fut history and a neighbouring village to them (they all share the same surname but are not strictly or even that closely related) is a very strong wing chun history and I am luck to have the opportunity to train with them due to pure luck and coincidence.

Don't get me wrong, with the exception if the wing chun family, it's not like it is taught father to son in the traditional sense so I'm doing it as a continuation of what they did. It's more like it was something that the dad showed to the kid as a little something as something that would be good for us and I have picked on something that i seem to be not that bad at. My own interests came about totally separate from my family history of training. There is also a little gap in that history because of the period during the 1970s-now when our parents came to the uk to start business. It is almost like the kung fu skipped our parents generation and us grandchildren are picking it back up again. Since then I have trained with the choy li fut side, although I have to say that he hasn't really kept it as how he was taught it and it has turned into almost a tai chi style form. Well, eh calls it "tai chi" and we did do it every morning on the roof of where we stayed but I'll be damned if tai chi has tiger style moves in it.

As a side note, one of my cousins is a bit of a japanese fanboy and he has expressed interest in aikido and karate. I always say he has turned to the dark side..... but then again, it does mean that I/we get something else to play with so it's all good.

[White Warlock]

Hehe, i have met over one hundred of my relatives, not one studies 'any' martial art. My dad, who boxed at his club during the 50's, was the only other student that i know of.

Go figure, eh?

[stonecrusher69]

Ovine King...sounds interesting the story of your family.My family is not as colorful as yours.there no MA in my family.I want to pass my wingChun onto my daughter but she is not interested.I'm hoping she will change her mind.

[gold dragon]

Hi Stonecrusher,

I know how you feel sort of, I have 2 daughters I want to pass my art onto. But they are young 4&6, right now we play martial arts but someday I hope they will get interested. I live outside of Philly.. what part of NJ are U in?

[stonecrusher69]

Hi Gold Dragon....I live in Northern NJ ,Totowa ,a small town.Im about 30min from NYC.,