Tribute To Sifu Presentation

[Andrew R]

Dear Family,

For the Tribute to Sifu/Sigung/Si Tai Gung event at the Summer Camp I'm going to prepare a "Great Moments With Sifu" presentation. It will essentially be a compilation of photos of truly memorable moments with Sifu along with quintessential Sifuisms. It will be short, maybe 5-6 hours.

I ask anyone and everyone who has spectacular photos/favorite quotes to please email them to me as soon as possible so I can start working on it. I will of course refer to the thread which has a bunch of those quotes, which I will find later.

My email is seenordrew at gmail.com.

Best,
Andrew

[Kenya Araujo]

Tribute to Sifu WOng

Great Andrew to do this. I help you asking Sifu Jose about pictures. What i am going to do from my space is take all of the results of practicing chikung incurable illness. What do you think.


Regards and merry Christmas

[Tim]

Dear Shaolin Wahnam Family.

Thank you to those that have emailed us or posted regards to the Tribute to Sifu.

But just in case you were holding back for some reason and weren't sure if you are allowed to reply in this section, well, you can.

Now that's cleared up I expect a good number of you to come forward now and let me, Barry or Mark know if you are going to be part of this tribute or not.

To be honest we are very disappointed with the response. We genuinely believed that by now we would have heard from a lot more people than we have.

Putting something like this together is not quick and simple and if we are to do it then we need participants. So far we have only a handful of people, which is not enough to put the tribute show together. There is a lot of organising to do, the cast, the programme, the lighting, choreography, music, staging etc and if we don't hear back soon it is doubtful we can pull this off.

Your Sifu/Sigung/Sitigung is looking forward to seeing his Shaolin Wahnam family demonstrate the skills he has taught. Now if one of those skills is hiding in the shadows, then great. If it is something else then let us know.

It will be disappointing if we have to postpone this to another year, but it is down to you, the family to participate or not.

If we don't have a clear idea of the participants, and what they will be doing, by the end of Jan we will reluctantly postpone to another year.

Yours kindly

[Andrew R]

Sister Kenya,

Thanks for your support, I'm looking forward to the photos.

There are tons of great photos buried in lots of threads on the forum which I couldn't possibly begin to remember. If anyone remembers the threads, the help would be greatly appreciated.

All the best,
Andrew

[Tim]

Dear Andrew,

One way of finding photos is to do a photo search on one of the search engines, put in Wong Kiew Kit. There are many pictures of Sigung.

Thank you for your support of this worthy project.

Kind wishes

[Tim]

There are now a good number of you coming forward to perform for the summercamp Tribute to Sifu. A large percentage of these are videos from those wanting to be part of it, in spirit, but sadly cannot be there.

Now would be a great time to make your new years resolution and commit to coming in person if you can.

Let's make 2013 an awesome year!

[Andrea]

Dear Andrew Sihing

I had a similar idea ... maybe we can work on this together ...
In any event I have some pictures. I'll send you an email and we can take it from there.

Best regards
Andrea

[Tim]

Sigung has kindly offered some suggestions for the show. If you would like to do one of these please let me know asap.

1. Breaking two or three bricks with hard internal force.

2. Breaking the lower of two bricks.

3. Breaking the middle of three bricks.

4. Breaking a huge jar from an inch away with internal force.

5. Breaking a marble slab from an inch away with internal force.

6. Extinguishing a candle flame from a distance.

7. Extinguish a candle flame behind a glass pane.

8. Sounding a gong or bell from a distance with a fist, palm, finger or staff.

[LeeWeiJoo]

How to Break a Marble Slab From An Inch Away With Internal Force

Dear family,

I just recently asked Sifu about how does one accomplish breaking a marble slab from an inch away with internal force.

As always, Sifu's answers are very enlightening, simple and yet profound The answers will appear in the Q&A, but since there is a long waiting list it will not be out until 2014. However as they are topical because they relate to the Tribute to Sifu project, Sifu may make some adjustments to have them appear earlier.

Sifu also allowed me to share the answers on the open forum for our benefit Without further ado,

Originally Posted by LeeWeiJoo
Dear Sifu,

How do I prepare my internal force training to hit a marble slab from an inch away with internal force?

Iron wire is my primary internal force training method.

What internal force training regimen would Sifu recommend to accomplish this feat, and in what time frame?

With Shaolin Salute,
Lee Wei Joo

Dear Wei Joo,

Your questions will be of interest to many people. The answers, revealing some important kungfu truths, may be surprising to many people, and may open many vintage points.

You don’t have to prepare any special internal force method to train to be able to break a marble strike from about an inch away. All you have to do is to do it. You already have sufficient internal force to do so.

Initially you may have some difficulty breaking a marble slab. This is not because you don’t have sufficient internal force, but because you don’t have the particular techniques. The best is to have someone demonstrate the feat to you, and tell you the crucial points.

The crucial points are that you must be in a chi kung state of mind and challenge your internal force your dan tian to your palm to break the marble slab. These crucial points will be meaningless to those who cannot enter into a chi kung state of mind and do not have internal force, even when they understand the dictionary meaning of all the words.

But for someone like you who can enter into a chi kung state of mind and have sufficient internal force, you can still accomplish the feat after a few trials, provided you have confidence in my judgment and in your ability to accomplish the feat.

As internal force is quite rare nowadays and thus most people do not have any exposure to it, they think that one needs a specific technique to develop specific internal force to accomplish a particular feat. For example, they think, mistakenly, that the force-development method to break a marble slab from an inch away is different from the force-development method to break the bottom of two bricks.

No, such a concept is incorrect. Once you have the required internal force, you can use it to break a marble slab from close quarters as well as the bottom of two bricks, though the exact technique for the particular feat may be different.

An analogy will make this clear. Must the job you do to enable you to earn enough money to buy a computer be different from the job you do to enable you to go for a holiday? No, you can do the same job. In fact, you can do any job that enables you to earn the required amount of money.

But the particular technique or procedure of buying a computer is different from that of going for a holiday. If you are totally new to buying a computer or going for a holiday, you have to learn the procedure.

It is best if you have an experienced person to show you, provided that you trust his judgment and your ability to buy a computer or go for a holiday. It is interesting to note that if you lack this trust in the person or yourself, you will still end up without the computer or the holiday even when you have the money.

Iron Wire is a very powerful force-development method. If one practices it correct he can develop a lot of internal force within a relatively short time. If he practices it wrongly, he can develop drastic adverse effects also within a relatively short time, and it is easy to practice Iron Wire wrongly. It is, therefore, very important to learn Iron Wire not just from any teacher, but from a competent teacher.

If you practice Iron Wire perfectly, you would develop sufficient internal force in three months to break a marble slab from about an inch. If your practice is not perfect but correct, you would be able to accomplish the feat in six months. If you are a slow learner, you would need about a year.

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Part 2 coming soon

With Shaolin Salute,
Lee Wei Joo

[joko]

Thank you, brother.

Joko

[LeeWeiJoo]

How to Break a Marble Slab From An Inch Away With Internal Force - Part 2

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Not many people have a chance to learn Iron Wire correctly. In fact, not many people have a chance to learn Iron Wire at all, regardless of whether the teaching or the learning is correct.

But many people have a chance to learn the Horse-Riding Stance or the Three-Circle Stance. An average student practicing the Horse-Riding Stance or the Three-Circle Stance correctly, but not necessarily perfectly, would develop sufficient internal force within a year to break a marble slab from about an inch.

But the fact is that, except in our school, most people who have learnt the Horse-Riding Stance or the Three-Circle Stance do not practice it correctly, or if they practice correctly they do not do so for a year. This is one reason why internal force is so rare nowadays.

Hence, many of the kungfu students in our school who have practiced the Horse-Riding Stance or the Three-Circle Stance for a year would be able to break a marble slab or the bottom of two bricks. They are actually many of them. But most of them may not know they have this ability. Now, having read the answer here, they may like to confirm it.

Why didn’t we highlight this ability to our students? After all, breaking a marble slab from an inch away or the bottom of two bricks is very impressive to watch. The reason is that the purpose we develop internal force is not to impress spectators but to have good health, vitality, longevity and combat efficiency when needed.

However, I believe the reason you ask me this question is not to please spectators but to participate in the “Tribute to Sifu” project. This is a worthy project, and as a bonus may also enable our students to realize that they are more capable than what they think they are.

Best regards,
Sifu.

With Shaolin Salute,
Lee Wei Joo

[Kenya Araujo]

Thank you

Thank you for sharing this great knolwdge.

Kenya

[Tim]

Just so you all know the Tribute is on. We are receiving a good number of interest from around the world. We would still like to encourage more people to be there in person if they can.

Also is there anyone willing to put their hands up for the Lion Dance?

Kind wishes

[DarkCosmoz]

If you practice Iron Wire perfectly, you would develop sufficient internal force in three months to break a marble slab from about an inch. If your practice is not perfect but correct, you would be able to accomplish the feat in six months. If you are a slow learner, you would need about a year.

Does breaking a block of ice count? In spite of the cleansing, I felt like I developed a lot of force in my forearms and hands over the past 2 months from daily Iron Wire training.

I tested my force one day by strking an ice bag that froze together as one giant block of ice (it must have melted a little before getting frozen again). The edges of the block were pretty jagged and sharp.

Before Iron wire, this would have hurt... a lot. To my surprise, after focusing gently on my hands for a few seconds, my downard palm strike went right through the jagged ice!

-Stephen

[Tim]

Reminds me of Karate Kid 2 Dark Cosmos. I have seen a some good videos of ice breaking so it does count.