Kuo Lien Ying northern shaolin over 30 years

A short clip of me doing some shao lin in 1978 and the second part doing Cha Chuan from this morning 30 years later at age 62. I learned this from Master Kuo Lien Ying of San Francisco. I just recently started doing my northern sets after many years of lay off.

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[airforceallie]

wow i love the clip. you move great at 62 even better than teenagers doing that form. i also practice from kuo's lineage.

[highvalleyranch]

airforceallie

Thanks for the kind comments!

With whom did you study?

[highvalleyranch]

Yes, I started studying with him in 1967 and continued until his passing.  He granted me permission to teach in 1974, and I taught classes until 1991. I stopped when I moved away into the mountains.

[ogscott]

You still look great!

Why the strange order from the 1978 clip--I see a mix of chaquan, tantui 3/9, and Erlong...at least. Was that part of the way Sifu Kuo was teaching? Did you just put some stuff together? Was he in the background calling the moves?

I was planning to show this to my 9-10 year olds and they are going to want to know.

Thanks

[highvalleyranch]

Yes, you are very observant. This was my own mixed set of the three shaolin sets that Sifu Kuo taught. He never taught this way. But I decided to mix them to learn more flow of moves to moves.

[banjobilly]

@harkying99 Chen village learned the Taoist style (now known as Guang Ping) which they refined into what is now known as Chen style. And from Chen style the other styles descended. But one should not look at Guang Ping as less refined than Chen because it uses a slightly different power and technique in its martial applications, that is, more smashing and less locking.

[harkying99]

@banjobilly Really?Including Chen?

[ksipa]

Fantastic vid!

[banjobilly]

Do you have any other clips of you performing Kuo Lien Ying's forms? He brought some unique skills to the USA.

[banjobilly]

@cheerry777 Guang Ping Tai Chi is the original Tai Chi Chuan. It is the style from which all other styles of Tai Chi are descended.

[cheerry777]

@highvalleyranch Did you Learn Kuo Lien Ying's tai-chi? I learn it from his wife. But many people are saying that is Guang Piny Yang style. What do you think of that? Did he ever agreed to that style?

[SiFudale]

A real pleasure to watch, excellent work. Thanks for sharing

[ehwafs]

I had the very good fortune to study under Randy 30 years ago.His sincerity and dedication was a major inspiration in my own lifetime journey of KungFu. He is a genuinely good soul -which I came to learn is the true mark of high skill. Thanks Randy for the gifts you shared with many of us...Ed W.