Southern shao lin or "Si lum" produced hun gar and wing chun when experts took specific parts of shao lin to a specific purpose and created a complete system, (which includes at least one wooden weapon and one edged weapon) kept secret for as long as possible. In the case of wing chun, the long pole staff and butterfly knives came to be the systems weapons that are primarily for training, competitions and exhibitions. Lately, a single short staff set has been accepted.
The staff, swords and spears are the weapons of hun gar, which came to be, it is said, when a handful of monks kicked and punched their way through a wall to escape the burning temple and vowed revenge on the burners. Technically, Hun gar can be performed in a 4’ x 4’ space, it's 5 animals often considered a system of their selves. (Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, Dragon - (Power, Grace, Swiftness, Softness, Spirit)
Training emphasizes strong and low stance work, bridge (forearm) training, low snapping kicks and the development of "Root", a quasi metaphysical concept of ki or "chi". It gives us the famous “Tiger/Crane” set and several others and in practice is indistinguishable from Northern Kung Fu styles, except to expert eyes.
And I don't know why I typed all that for you, but myself, I am changing worlds. My atmosphere and minerals are shifting from waiting to respond to patients, while on a routine, into another more vital and dynamic state of being now. I don’t want to wait for anybody? All my time and energy moves naturally toward this new life I have lived before and the main difference is "mostly new people, that aren't already one of us". Which isn’t such a bad thing? Just requires more shaving.
The accretion of 25 years of identity and expectation cracks, as I become larger than I was and more than I was again. It is the requirement of the mission and it will be accomplished when somebody says "Damn? I never knew doc could fight?" and another laughs and says "Well now, the flyin’ squirrel we knew all along". They didn't? Its a thing with our monks? We've had more than one veteran? We endorse kung fu as the core of our health and strength engine.....but they just never connect the two, until something comes up where the connection is made for them. They didn't see the dragon/crane in a line of stitches, but now that they think about it, they were pretty perfect? To them it's just the flowers we plant and the plants we use? They don't see the "leopard speaks to earth" in our general ways and food preparation movements. But it's there and it was there first. (Farmer-boy scout-kung fu-medicine-monastery-school) and I do know why I typed all that, because it's an example of positive lineal progression in a life that finds less and less and so, moves gropingly toward "more". Because it is the same or near close for you and chances are covid came along, cost you a lot more than $30,000 and screwed your whole existing life and "career trajectory" around too and you may remember a self that was once so much more, to fall back on, while rising up. Your "weedhopper" that, faced with the untenable, remembered it was something else in the first place and someone you liked.
My full intention was to wait until even the murderous goblin "Envision" physicians were crapped out and then respond to public medicine for a bit more than the $226,000.00 my job is worth now. (If you knew them, if you had watched this 30 year horror hospital movie, you might too) I intended to run our "family forest vacation" camps off of the govts various facility needs, whatever they turn out to be? One thing we're super good at, is environments for the carbon based organic life form.
But? Hell waited too long? I'm very nearly on my own in the world and if they came calling, I have kung fu now. Conventional medicine is all being zip filed and archived to make room for "beginning staff form" and a million other details I archived decades ago, to make room for "teach drs/make fine things/protect special needs" life, that is presently pouring out my ears like useless sand from an hour glass whose time has run.
Because I have to be fully human first again; as simple and empty as an unpainted coffee cup waiting for 6:00am. Even more than it has been, every work of my hands, every minute of my day, "good" renewing itself in the world because it is not left a dormant energy. We are not blind or wholly numb. We know we cram ourselves into "boxes" and horrible routines of life....but there is always a reason. Always a gain or a purpose to the denying and disappointing of all the rest of our self and time and what loves us. Most of the time what we adapt for, we are eager to! It is not as if we are involuntarily dragged and so, when our time comes, we can also voluntarily leave. I left because I wanted to outline my curriculum and let the memory of it start converting me. It is what I will be on the spot for now.
Master Don teased us relentlessly for reasons, "Kung fu is everything, yet it is nothing?" Shock & awe! "The perfect way to do, is to be" we knew where that one came from, Tao te ching was our first textbook. He did it because of the powerful influence our activity had, because our ability was powerful, but our minds were not. He didn't want what we knew and could do, to define us and our "personal concept" in the world. It might have been our activity, for most our faith, but it was a tool for us to use, not a burden to be enslaved of or driven mad by. A journey, not a destination to “get to”. We knew we would never go to a competition. We agreed when we interviewed that it was not our interest. He was the most ego person I had met in a way, but he was adamant about priding or making a display....which was sometimes kind of frustrating because I was thinking about passing out a little foot with relish and perhaps it somehow showed? After he was gone and during my "doctor by day/swashbuckler for life" period, I can say I never used it to thug people around or stay on top of my share. It never occurred to me, except once when 4 guys were going to gut me and the tactic I used then was "running very fast" and being very fast with car keys. I am very, very glad of that? According to the legend, to be reduced to thug or thief was the worst thing that could happen to us, the evil forces having completely inverted our great happiness and shamed all, by one. In fact I can only ever recall being in two fights and they weren't enjoyable exercises? But it was sufficient. So fast my body did it for me and i have to think about it to slow it down. I am glad for that as well. (Good old body. Thank you spirit)
I typed it so you could imitate it because I’m teaching already. Because the clever boy looks at a thing and his mind seeks to make something of it for his self and often enough, he does? Maybe not the tiger/crane form, maybe just the one thing or concept that fell right in place and made a difference. But this is a romance with a purpose not to lose sight of. I mean if there was a war or invasion, vertical or horizontal is the only thought and priority.
Here I go to see about mats and maybe an empty barn now. I am hoping next will be a more in-depth treatment of our world and “Kunlong Shao lin” because it is new to me as well?
Thank you for reading my old age adventure and for considering our project. Godspeed.
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