website of Yau Kung Moon in USA:
www.ykmusa.com

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kusanku:

There is a sort of hidden type Chinese art called Yau Kuen Mon Kung Fu,I knew a guy that was family, we trained some, and his art was very like White Eyebrow or White Tiger styles.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by satan:

then there's sun da and its risky training sessions. i think sun da is probably the forbidden art of china because of its extreme methods of training. is sun da the chinese name? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mikemurphy:
John,

Sign me up for that course! http://www.xpres.net/~gmattson/ubbs/smile.gif And here I thought Uechi condidtioning or Kendo training was the balls. Go figure.

mike

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Mike,
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by satan:
when i say that this is deadly, i actually mean it. its said that with one punch, you can hit someone 5 metres into the air. also, the people who practice this martial art can go crazy or even die.

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It's been over 30 years and I can't remember the Hangul http://www.xpres.net/~gmattson/ubbs/frown.gif (in any case, I only spent a very short time in TKD) http://www.xpres.net/~gmattson/ubbs/smile.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Allen M.:
BTW I almost flunked my first TKD white belt test in 197something, irking the test board in North Carolina when I described the meaning of "Heaven and Earth" as I was showing them the movements in ...

BTW, the kicks that was taught back in 1965 by Kim Bok Man were basically karate kicks.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Allen M.:
However, names of the forms adopted by General Choi are Korean names. The kicks, which are the substance of TKD, are definitely NOT Japanese.

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The names may have been written in ...

When I took up Tae Kwon Do in 1965 under Kim Bok Man of Korea, the hyong(forms) were almost identical to Shotokan, maybe because "Father of TKD" General Choi was a 2nd dan in Shotokan before WW2. The Korean terms, if translated to Chinese, were exactly as the Japanese kanji terms.

My memory might ...

Sounds like Tae Kwon Do's Ki Bon Hyung, a text only description can be found in this website: http://ryanshroyer.tripod.com

Hope this might help.

Bill


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Thanks Bill.

Good manner, courtesy and respect towards others are needed under all 3 situation. I have done all 3 of them during the 60s and 70s in Japan, Okinawa, Australia, Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong and I have never got into trouble with other dojo instructors or students.

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I was wondering why the alphabets after JKF.... and ...eigata were missing. Then it suddenly occurs to me that the computer thought it was a four-letter-word. Well, anyway, guess you all know what I originally meant. http://www.xpres.net/~gmattson/ubbs/smile.gif

Bill Mok


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I see that you are an 'old-hand' in karate-do if you can remember Yamakura Shihan, perhaps you can remember my sensei too, YOKI Yukiaki, Mattson Shihan said Yoki was the first Japanese Seigokan visitor to Boston dojo. Here is Yoki sensei's posting in the Consumer Corner Forum:

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