Originally Posted by
Nuadormrac
Yeah, as I understand it, there's a history. Best left at that...
Though if anyone is bothered at anyone having learned any Japanese, I had also studied Tai Chi when I lived in New Mexico. My teachers were Charley DeFelipo and Virginia Heutig who study under someone who accepted them, as being their sifu by the name of Chung Tin (though that's more in Hong Kong). Charley also studies, though under another teacher, which ironically was one of Chung Tin's Tai Chi brothers, Liu Ho Pa Fa, which he had shown us a little of... They travel there once a year, well Charley has for 30+ years). Chung Tin was a senior student under Tung Ying Cheh.
Only thing, 2008 my mother had several strokes, and the ecconomy being what it had been, there were no jobs there, so I ended up having to move. When she was in the hospital, I moved back east far more quickly then planned, wrt finding a job.
The bad news, prior to all this happening, I had learned up through the third section (well with the provisio that a lot of the nuances obviosuly can take more then 4-6 years to learn), and had started learning the sword form. I sort of lucked, tbh, in having found good teachers, from a lets just say known lineage. I'll have to find some others, which isn't necessarily so easy, and as no one from the Tung family tradition lives in my current area, it means going on to learn the family fighting form is sort of out...
Oh well, it is what it is, and my mother was really bad up then, as was the US economy. Her blood pressure had hit 257, which is where she then got a stroke, and needed medical attention then and there. The whole issue with Lehman Brothers, and economic meltdown, is sort of known history by now...