12/26/2024
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I am Grandson to 3 Grandmasters, blessed with the “Utopian Gift” of Living 24/7 with these 3 Powerful Teachers w/such Intense Extreme & Exquisite Training , for all of 27.5yrs!
Inclusive, another 13yrs w/Another 4th Powerful Teacher; My 5th Sifu is Master Pun in Hong Kong! He has many of the same KungFu elements, as we have in: Pai Lum Kyun Lung Zhang JiaZu ~ White Forest Fist Dragon Fighting Family. He is “2nd Generation”, under his Father “1st Generation”, under the famous Hung Gar Master; Wong FeiHung! He is our Adopted Pai Lum Grandmaster now; to continue our 108 year “Dragon Evolution of Evolvement”.
All 3 Teachers kept my Chinese name the same: “Diamond Tiger”
|> ZuanHu Gao
|> JunFu Pai
|> TzunHu Tsai
GM ShouLing Gao • 1966~1976
GM TienLung Pai • 1977~1986
GM ChiYuan Tsai • 1989~1999
Coach Merrick • 2012~2025
9.25/8.75/9.5/13 40.5yrs
It is enough to say; I know stuff!
Now I am age 73, w/57yrs Training • w/47yrs Teaching • w/37yrs Fighting
& “I Will Train & Teach & Fight until My Last Breath!” I Will Teach All I Know! I Will Hold Back No Secrets! “I Will Teach You … to Become Better Than Me!” Inclusive; “Believe, Live that Belief, & that Belief Shall Come to Pass! Never to forget: “It Is Not in The Nature of Worms to Teach Eagles How to Fly!” Whereas of now, “I Have No In-Between Speed; I m Either on the Move or At Rest”!
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My Intention & Purpose to share all this? (besides to Market Myself, to Attain more Students; to pass on all I know “f/All 4 Amazing Sources”), as I recall; in the 60’s & 70’s & 80’s & 90’s & even up to 2018; my last Fighting at age 68, I could still flip off of walls, jump over opponents, drop down in “Full Splits” w/Cold Muscles! Yet now, hehe chuckle! I also have to kick them in the groin first, to then kick them in the head!
My 10,000 gratitudes for “my morning chuckle”, to Steve Rowe via Robert Smith!!!
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HEHE CHUCKLES • Here it is!!!
You know you’re getting old in the Martial Arts when:
You realize that those who taught you and many of your fellow students that you started training with are just gone; “Crossed Over The Border”, whereas, i m up to 15 now & they are surely missed; how could I possibly know, I would keep outliving everyone!
You get out of bed & your first 18 steps are like the; “Dawn of Man” poster!
The other students call you: “Grampa/Grandad/Gramps”, & all a sudden; u realize that u r one!
You are shaving your Father in the mirror & the “Designer Stubble”, makes you look homeless!
Your KungFu/Karate belt, keeps getting shorter & all this training, does not make it fit better, nor does it make you slimmer or fitter; just more out of breath & more tired!
Training on a cold day; your head is too hot & your hands fingers & feet
are still numb!
People make the same mistake, that your KungFu/Karate Kata; is Tai Chi!
You stand on one leg & the other one keeps giving way, to cause a near fall & we certainly do want a “Broke Hip”, like all them “Old Folks”!
You have to wear stupid pads, to protect your varicose veins, or from that dastardly leaking!
Your Martial Arts training started “B.B.L” (hehe, Before Bruce Lee)!
You dribble, (from any or***ce), when you shout KIAI or CHI!
On a residential course, or in a living chamber, you have to have your own room; because of your frequent trips to the toilet & loud snoring & perhaps, others smell, more than U!
Most of your traveling luggage, comprises, only, of a medical kit!
To identify someones instructor, you have to go back several generations to find someone you know!
No company, will “insure you” for Martial Arts Training, saying “Oh my, U R just too old! Whereas, u stalk outta da room mumbling; “No I m Not, No i m NOT”!
You remember when Martial Arts, was about using the opponents force against them & required courtesy & humility. Now, it is all I can do, to save face & knock them out; without courtesy!
You find yourself using old fashioned words; that nobody understands anymore; like “knapsack” & “rucksack” instead of Backpack; like LP & CD instead of DVD; like “hey dude” that is now “hey man”, & the misunderstand modern usage of words like; “gay or faggot”, which are supposed to mean; “Happy & a Cigarette Butt”!
You grew up in a society where; “Boxing & Duking it Out”, was the way boys/men, sorted out their differences & only girls pulled hair or kicked in a fight; NOW! They just shoot U!
The “old boy” & “old school” training that u often describe, is
20/30/40/50 years younger than U!
Your back goes out more than u do!
You have finally got your head together, your life in order, & now, your body is falling apart!
Your secret techniques are safe with your friends; because they can not remember them either!
“To kick someone in the head; U have to kick them, in the groin first!”
(Hehe Chuckle; this is really good!)
The “pause”, in a Form/Kata is just a “Senior Moment”, & is followed by an uninspiring blend of everything u know, until u collapse w/exhaustion, because you can not think of the finishing moves & want nobody to
Know; thusly, u just make stuff up!
[there will b more; to this finally, an absolute self-Awareness; of what i was, what i was doing, & what i have become! Feel free, to add your own in here! We need to keep laughing, (to hold off the crying)]
[Didja notice, i made proper usage of “Brackets & Parentheses”, (not that anyone should care.)]
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Inclusive, i have a wee bit of research, into this individual; when i get to England; smile, i m self inviting my self, to visit u & meet u. This is one of those rare; very special Souls, on this planet & is worthy of whatever may enhance his life! i know not yet what? Whereas, i must find a gift for him?
“My name is Steve Rowe & I am a
Martialist, with over 50 years; studying Tai Chi, Karate, Iaido, Jodo (Judo) & many other arts alongside: Taoism, Buddhism, & various healing arts. I am a philosopher, writer, magazine columnist of many years, & author of several books on martial arts, poetry & Eastern philosophy. I am Chief Instructor & founder of “Shi Kon Martial Arts”, & have a full time; Martial Arts Centre in Chatham, in Kent, & in the UK. I have taught martial artists, security personnel, bodyguards & police; all over the world for many years. I have put this blog together, to keep a record of my teachings, writings & meditations. I am now in my 70’s & have survived 25 surgeries, 3 life threatening sepsis attacks, the amputation of my right leg & even cancer. I now regularly advise & coach many people; with emotional, mental & physical problems; alongside teaching my “Tai Chi Coaching Programme”, to around 75 martial arts instructors; from a wide range of disciplines, every month, at my Chatham Centre. I have categorised over “500 Blog Posts”, into articles, poems, interviews, with explanations of the “Tao Te Ching”, & details of my Tai Chi Coaching Programme. Feel free to research, all you wish, as you can find these categories, in the menu!
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