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.

Workin' the HASAYFU Kwando

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.

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.

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.

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.

Weapons of Hasayfu - The Dragon Head Wooden Bench

I had an interesting moment when another blogger at benchsite.blogspot.com asked to use a photo from my website,  http://hasayfu.com/.  The article is amusing and brought up the opportunity to feature the Dragon Head Bench.  The bench is a common piece of furniture. In the hands of resourceful Kung Fu masters, it becomes a deadly weapon. Once you learn how to manipulate a wooden bench, all sorts of every day objects become possible weapons.

Weapons of Hasayfu - the Rake

This rake is effectively fancy and has a lot of attack possibilities.  However, the rake that is traditional to Hasayfu Hung Kuen was a farming tool.  Throughout China's history, weapons were denied to the common people.  They made use of what they had on hand, and often the weapon of choice was one that was used on a daily basis for practical purposes.

The Kwando in Hasayfu

Hasayfu has many weapon forms to include the magnificent Kwando. 

Hasayfu's Short Jab

This is the "Short Jab" hand strike that is a fundamental in Hasayfu.  It is one that I discuss in the Short Range Hand Strikes video of the online training course.

Getting to know Hasayfu Hung Kuen

Double Gan weapons of Hasayfu

Soon I will be making online training in Hasayfu Hung Kuen available.  It is a big jump into the unknown waters of the Internet for me, and this blog has been created just to help anyone interested following our progress and learning more about Hasayfu.  I will be adding short posts often, lots of photos and updating information about the training.