This board has been essentially dormant for years now. I'm going to leave it running, and I'll keep the software updated, but for now, I'm disabling new user registration. If you're not a member and wish to become one, contact me through my main website's contact form , and I can manually create an ...

Joe Salomone will be doing a bit of a northeast seminar tour in June, teaching seminars in Syracuse NY, Rochester NY, and Cleveland OH. Training with Mr. Salomone is always an incredibly valuable experience, and if you can make it to any of these seminars, I strongly encourage you to do so! The Clev...

Joe Salomone will be teaching a seminar at 80 Rockwood Place, Rochester, NY (Harp Karate) on Saturday, July 30th, from 1-4PM. The seminar will cost $50. Movement and technique from the 3 and female system will be shared as taught to Mr. Salomone from his Teacher, Grand Master Arthur Sikes, who was a...

Not sure why they are charging so little? I've been to and seen advertisements for many seminars, from little-known instructors that are among the best to world-renowned instructors whose names alone hold monetary value. Hour-for-hour, I don't recall ever seeing a seminar this expensive, so I think...

$150 for a five-hour seminar? That'd be awfully hard to justify even in a high cost of living area like Washington DC, much less Dayton. I've seen seminars with prominent heads of systems (people training since well before Kenneth Lin/Lin Xiang Fuk was born) flown in from around the world that cost ...

I'm very fortunate to be teaching at a RECenter that allows me to teach with no overhead. They take tuition from my students (they also set the rates), pay me a modest hourly wage (at three hours per week, it obviously doesn't amount to much, but it covers the club's expenses and some of my other tr...

For those who have not yet heard, I'm saddened to pass on the news that GM Arthur Sikes passed away on July 3rd.

{A long time ago 1973 or 1974} I was kicked very hard in the shin during a match in a karate tournament in Albequerque N.M. My opponents kick was very good and I was in excruciating pain but somehow managed to win the match to the satisfaction of the Karate judges. Later, as I was hobbling around a...

Hello everyone! My name is Shane. I noticed when the subject of GGM Reeders' students came up I didn't see Master Carl Spitali's name. Welcome, Shane. Mr. Spitale is listed in the thread about original students . There's also been quite a bit of discussion about one of his students, who you mention...

Congratulations to the Donzella family!

Does anyone know of any Liu Seong teachers or students in the portland, Oregon area? I will be there in time for a visit and it would be nice to see what they have learned and share in company.Thanks. I'm not aware of any practitioners in Oregon. I know there are some well-respected Southeast Asian...

It occurs to me that, while we have a forum for web sites related to Liu Seong Gung Fu, we had nothing listing the various clubs and schools that are out there. If I'm going to be headed out to someplace where there happens to be a club or school, I'll want to drop by and visit. This thread is an at...

The following locations welcome those who practice any of the arts taught by Willem Reeders. Listed in alphabetical order by location. New York: Geneva The Finger Lakes Martial Arts Center Geneva, NY Head Instructor - Jerry Martin Rochester The Academy of Chinese-Indonesian Martial Arts 80 Rockwood ...

Is anyone familiar with Dennis Globosky (aka Dennis St. John or Dennis St. John Globosky )? He claims to have been a seven-year student of Guy Savelli and Ray Cunningham in the late 60's and 70's. He says that sometime in the 70's, he went to New Mexico and spent a month or more to convince Master R...

This has been reverted. A new visual verification module has been installed that will hopefully prevent spam-bots from registering on the forum, so new users will once again be able to confirm their own accounts. If we start having problems with spam-bots joining the forum again, the admin activatio...

The things we learned I have never seen before, but then I only had a limited knowledge on the arts. He started teaching us the physics, the alphabetical formulation, time and space to what we were doing. Andrea, Can you elaborate on what you mean by teaching " the alphabetical formulation " of wha...

I just thought I'd try to start a discussion on the very difficult topic of Kuntao. First of all; how many of you were taught something labelled as Kuntao? Second; who taught it to you and who were their teachers? Thirdly; without getting too specific, how would you describe what Kuntao is? That's ...

For what it's worth, much of the thread deletion was unintentional. He deleted all of the threads that he initiated (which, in itself, caused many other users' posts to be deleted), and he deleted the "connections" thread that became rather contentious, but in doing so, he accidentally deleted all o...

Confucion as in Confucius. Sorry about that mix up. I'd still be interested in an elaboration. I did a quick search on the Internet, and what I saw of the Confucian method seems to fit pretty well with how I learned (self perfection through appreciation of all things and a focus on tradition). Howe...

Before I go mucking with theme files (and trying not to break anything), I wanted to ask - what do people think of the font colors and sizes used in the default AcidTechBlood(Ex) theme? I've often found them a bit difficult to read without boosting the font sizes in my browser (ctrl-plus). I don't k...

Now I have better focus for my research on the subject as a begginner in the system I was very unfamiliar with silat, kuntao, or southeast asian fighting styles. Though it was never explained in depth, I couldn't really place this tiger fighting with any thing I had ever seen via hung gar or fu jow...

Is this harimau system the same as the low tiger system. Sifu Mckissick was demonstrating some low tiger techniques and I wanted to know if this is the same thing. Yep. Harimau means tiger, and specifically refers to Indonesian (Silat) tiger application, which differs quite a bit from the "flavor" ...

Is this related to Guy Savelli's mysterious "whip" technique? I've heard about this from several of his students. Mysterious? Whipping technique is a central theme in our art, and it's quite common in other arts, as well. I'd say it's definitely related, but I'm not sure that the air of mystery is ...

So for which teachers is this not true, anyone know off hand? Also, I wonder if anyone can add to the list that Eric started. I don't know. I would expect that if Jerry Bradigan teaches any stick technique, it comes strictly from GGM Reeders, as Reeders was the only teacher he's ever had (I know he...

Might anyone know where you can get this items, especially the Yunnan Paiyao? I'm sure mail-order sources are a Google search away, but the stuff is cheap enough that shipping will add significantly to the cost. Your best bet is to stock up whenever you're someplace with a Chinatown, or look in a l...