thanks brother I trying to hold on to some of my skill. i am paying for it because i spent most of the last 15 years in the filipino martial arts industry and got out of touch with the CMA folks, so when i started my jow ga class a few years ago some in my town didn't even believe that i was qualified to teach kung fu. fortunately i practiced my forms in my own personal work outs and have retained some of it. i have taught kung fu the whole time i've been here in CA privately until 07 when i started the actual jow ga program at my school. still, most of the people who come to me come for FMAs but as the students get out, our reputation as a kung fu school is building.
thanks for the offer too, i would be honored to have something from the old school in my school! i'll make sure to look you up when i get back. I will be there in May or June, btw.
re-johnnie come latelies to JG leadership... I understand. I don't know much about that topic because I haven't been around much. there are only a handful of people I do keep in touch with, and none of us are actively in the local (DC) martial arts scene except raymond and even he's limited. I do talk to Rahim regularly but we rarely speak about JG business also. I admire the program he's got and we mostly talk about mine or his ideas for our own schools. I'd like to get back to the far east, and every year I tell myself I'll go to hong kong. my mother goes every year, sometimes twice a year, so maybe on the next go-round I'll be with her.
one of these days I will make the trip out to the bay to see the three jow ga schools near me. takes me forever to finish my list, but that's one, to visit them.