It's obviously legit: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV6JdzCbXFE"]Tommy Carruthers Showreel - Underground Edition - YouTube[/ame]
Well since that place seems pointless and I am dissapointed in Wing Chun. I've decised to look into other forms of Chinese martial arts. I cant decide between White Crane Kung Fu or Wushu. Which do you guys recommend for self defense. I like the chain punches in WC does Wushu or WCKF have either of those. Thank you.
wushu is a national performance art with little to do with actual fighting (so it is alot like wing chun ) white crane, there are two types of crane northern and southern do you know which version the school teaches??
The interweb says there is JKD in Phoenix: http://phoenixjkd.com/. That's relatively close, isn't it? But it seems to be privates and semi-privates. It's under Vunak I believe. If I was going back to JKD, I'd look for an instructor that has come from the Inosanto side, which Vunak has.
If Hannibal approves...you better check it out Corrmaz. Eeerm...What's his JKD like though? Any idea? You being with Vunak in another life and all.
Never met him, but he holds the same rank I do and is not one of the current crop of Vunak's crew so he is "old(ish) school" to some extent - I would guess he has his poop together
My CLF comes from toisan as well That would be Tibetan (or northern) white crane (mainly a long arm style although it has a fair bit of short arm and work as well as Mongolian wrestling in it) derived from the lama school kung fu. From the schools website its mixes this style with CLF which you seem to be interested in so might be an idea to attend the school A little history on white crane in case you haven’t already looked it up. (if you have skip this!) The lama school was originally of northern/Tibetan ancestry which made its way to southern china via Wong Yan-Lam who ran an escort business (ie bodyguard work) for years before returning to Guangdong (canton) to teach. The story goes upon returning to the city (which was the centre of chinese martial arts in the south) he set up a stage to take on all comers to prove his styles effectiveness, over three weeks close to a hundred kung fu teachers accepted his challenge and were beaten (whilst this sounds like a fairly tail according to david ross noted TCMA and MMA teacher, writer and academic this can be verified by the newspaper archives in the city) Whether you believe the number or not what is a matter of public record is that after his challenge he was named the 1st of the ten tigers (the ten best teachers in the area) and considered the best fighter in southern china, and masters such as wong fei hung sort him out to learn his long arm style of fighting to add to their systems Because lama was seen as a foreign martial art from tibet, it underwent a few name changes in the south, becoming known as either hop gar, or white crane depending on the lineage of the teacher, the arts are basically the same, although the white crane branch sort to make the forms of the art more logical. It’s a long arm style with very powerful punches, fast footwork and a fair bit of clinch and throwing, historically its been long linked to the tongs and triads as one of the arts they prefer to train in, make of that what you will of course whilst the history of the art makes it sound effective and a good art to study it all depends on the teacher and how they train as to whether you can make it work in a fight or not, hope that’s a bit helpful
