till now I stil have no idea how to do the quotes and person's
name here.. LOLs!
liuzg150181:
i practised with zhou guan hua long, the late coach hung han
song... my favourite and mentor who taught me and inspired me to do
what i'm doing now.
ATR: because alot of the traditional styles left China to set up
schools and spread their wares in other continents, especially
after a few wars in China and the cultural revolution, boxer
rebellion etc. thats why alot of things now we find overseas and
even in SG are very ahrd to find in China. for simple EG: now we
see chinese in SG burning incense, the various rituals etc right..
they used to be from china, but u hardly see them there now, even
alot of their people won't know or recognise what is it we are
doing.
I knew one Chow gar exponent,but he's a German so I thought you
might know him. Not familiar with the Chor gar school which you had
trained before,but good to know trad. CMA still exists here.
ATR: IMO Coach Jason has provided a good answer,though there's
another reason I can think of. Very long time back, the 5 main
Cantonese martial arts were Hung,Lau,Choy,Lee,Mok(洪﹑劉﹑蔡﹑李﹑莫),but
with the exception of Hung gar the rest are now languishing into
obscurity or facing extinction.
Thing is, martial art style come and go,either integrated into
other system,or 'evolving'(not a term I like to use,since it can be
a disnomer) to another system,or simply overtaken in terms of
popularity. I'd say the main Cantonese styles would be Hung
gar(still very popular),Choy lay fut,Chow Gar,Tibetan White
Crane,Wingchun(a irony,since it used to be a fringe style,but that
proves my point) etc.
PS:Jason,you can quotes others by clicking on the cog icon on
the top right-hand corner of the post.
