Sunday, February 28, 2016

30 years!

Lam Tang Kung Fu Academy celebrated 30 years of business in the Columbia, South Carolina area at the end of last October.  I was awarded a resolution from the South Carolina State Legislature which was a very proud moment.  I am very grateful for the gesture.  My students trained and practiced hard for this special celebration for over a year.  It was a great show.






Sunday, April 26, 2015

Slithering Snake of Hasayfu

The other day, a student asked me how it felt to me when I perceived an attack directed toward me.  It got me thinking about the Hasayfu animals forms, and we talked a little about direct and indirect response.  The merging of the energetic characteristics of Hasayfu provides the architecture for neutralizing or re-directing oncoming force.  An example of this is utilizing the Snake Slithering Technique to absorb, re-direct, and return energies. 






Snake Slithering Technique is like a spring that can contract as the energy of a response meets the energy of an attack and expands, or dispels energy into the ether and contraction gathers energy to express it as desired.  During each stage of the Snake Slithering Technique, energy coils itself from the ground up.  It moves up the body from the ankles to the knees, to the waist, to the shoulders, down the arm and to the tips of the fingers.  It is a process of construction and destruction that's coordinated with breath, mind, and body.





Thursday, March 26, 2015

The Animal Forms

Have you all seen this Five Animal Form video that has been on YouTube?  It has been around for a good while.



You will also find it on our own Hasayfu.com.  It's on the home page set to music written just for us by Tim Farley, performed by Tim Farley and Greg Elstad, one of our Hasayfu students.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Is Hasayfu an Internal or External Martial Art?

I like a good conversation.  In this video two of my students and I are discussing some of the internal and external aspects of Hasayfu.  I have plans to add several more short clips with this kind of discussion.  Do you have any questions that you would like to be addressed?  Please leave it in a comment.



Thursday, May 9, 2013

The Hasayfu Journey

For those who decide to walk the Hasayfu journey, you will find an equally balanced methodology, concepts and fighting strategies, that covers empty hand forms and weaponry.  There are a wide variety of two and three man fighting sets and also includes it's own special Iron Palm Training.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Tiger




I was out practicing at the park the other day and Simo did a video for you.  This is an exert from the Hasayfu Tiger form.