New faces in the park

22 04 2007

As regular readers know, I live near Duxton Plain Park and that’s where I go to practice. In the last couple of years, I’ve only seen one other Westerner there – my German friend Patricia, who trains with Chin Woo. There used to be a Russian guy, Seva, who was a top student with Rennie Chong, but he moved to Australia while I was in China.

In the last week, though, I’ve seen two new faces. First: Carlos, an Englishman who’s training in Wing Chun at the same Cantonese clan house I wrote about recently. Tonight, I met Laurence (who I think is French, judging by his accent). He’s studying Wu style taijiquan with a master in Hong Kong street.  This rings a bell – I think I read something on sgwutan about a master who taught taiji as a martial art in that part of town.

Hmm, anyway, Duxton Plain Park is turning into the place to be ;-)


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23 04 2007
Jono

Carlos might be one of the very few “angmoh” students of Ku Sifu. If he is and does not mind, I look forward to seeing him do the Cho Family’s “siu lim tao” set on youtube ;) )

The sifu of Wu style taiji of Laurence might be Mr. Yeo? I heard from a classmate this sifu has a strong “qi” and his taiji “works.”

29 09 2007
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