JUT SUP 內宅
“THREE KINDS OF DISCIPLES”
A Zen master named Gettan lived in the latter part of the Tokugawa era. He used to say:
“There are three kinds of disciples: those who impart Zen to others, those who maintain the temples and shrines, and then there are the rice bags and the clothes-hangers.”
Gasan expressed the same idea. When he was studying under Tekisui, his teacher was very severe. Sometimes he even beat him. Other pupils would not stand this kind of teaching and quit. Gasan remained, saying:
“A poor disciple utilizes a teacher’s influence. A fair disciple admires a teacher’s kindness. A good disciple grows strong under a teacher’s discipline.”
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Beset with a thousand disquietudes,
I chanced upon an old woman fishing under the shady cool of creeping willows.
I wanted to ask her my thousand questions regarding the sun, moon and the creation of the universe and my purpose in life and oh so many more,
She placed her fingers on her lips: Fish are rising.
So I stood there and watched.
The freckled river shimmered with flashes of light like scales of an anaconda.
Clouds drift and tugged the blue horizon with their thick, silken strands;
Shadows of the willow grove deepened.
I felt my questions draining away.
Finally, as she slowly reeled in her line, I laughed as I saw that the line was without a hook.
How does one catch fish without a hook? I wondered.
As she turned to go, I know that tea is ready and I am invited.
Following behind her light, drifting footsteps, a gentle breeze combs through the willow branches,
I catch fragments of their whispering: A big one she caught.
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“Don’t resist with FORCE; use PRESSURE.” – Doc
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Quit stealing my stuff!
you know like all of Shadowhand Drills and calling them your own.
Be a man and stop being a-you know the rest!
The only thing I have changed is the people I trusted!
ATTENTION!
April 18, 2015 Seminar!
More details to come.
“Don’t resist with FORCE; use PRESSURE.” – Doc
I want to take a moment to publicly say thank you to my Sifu, Sifu Brian K Edwards, and my SiBak/SiGong… SiFu Doc Savage for their influence on my life and contributions to my Journey, today simply would not have been possible without their blessings and support.
You have been and are the primary influences on my Kung Fu.
For my other mentors in Wing Chun and other styles, in particular Sensei Scott Mangrum, I am likewise grateful
I want to also thank my wife who is very supportive of my martial pursuits and has been for years.
To Yah’, who has blessed me, praise and thanks for sending so many wonderful people, both friends and family into my life.
And last but not least, When I was ready, while I would not have sought such, when I was ready, God gave me enemies. Time has taught me the value of such, to that I only have two things to say…Thank you Yah’…and
FUD!
I am truly blessed, thank you all…this is a day I will take with me for the rest of my life!
Last night was such a great class! Focusing on specific aspects of Wing Chun and breaking them down is where it’s at. A simple concept discussion ended up blowing my mind and now I have to look at things differently and progress my understanding. This is why I drive two hours for a one hour lesson, thank you Sifu!
It still amazes me how much Sifu Doc has to share, I have been training with Sifu Doc Savage for over 12 years and he still shows me techniques to use in scenarios that I have not yet seen. Maybe he is just dragging me along or maybe he has such a deep understanding of Wing Chun that as I learn more he is able to teach me more. I understand there are those who could ” destroy” me in a confrontation but maybe with continued commitment and training I will be able to protect myself and my family from such individuals.
It was great to train with my new found Memphis family, and Ed I hope I didn’t ruin the disillusion you had with how easy it is to get out of the ” rear naked choke hold.” And Justin I will be sure to work on my hitting skills so as not to disappoint you again by how soft my hands are and how weak my hits are.
Thanks to everyone who continues to show commitment and dedication.
Holy Shit!!!
That was some good sh*t, these seminars really hit ya to the core. I called SiFu Doug and thanked him again for teaching us as you taught him. Not only did he not water it down he encouraged us as students to go to the source. I can’t thank my SiFu enough for turning on the light to the path , I just never expected you to shed that much light on it. Thanks SiGong Doc for everything.
Bobby thanks for having us again its always top notch training with you and Justin (my arm is good to go now :). Enero, I hate you missed some of the action we’ll see ya. Good training with Memphis guys again too.
“We are all lucky to have such a gifted teacher” SiFu Doug
Todd
cowboy burgers puk yeah!
It’s always great to train with everyone. Thanks again, SiGong, for such an informative (and ball shattering) seminar! 🙂 Thanks, Bobby, for the lodging and for allowing me to run into your fist a few times. Justin, as always, I’m grateful for your insights, the video of —-, and for the shooting lesson. Panama City brothers, it was a blast! Enero, thanks again for your tips/pointers!
I appreciate all of you for receiving me and the others from Memphis when things seemed uncertain. We’re here for the longhaul (though I don’t know how many more cowboy burgers I can take lol). Shadowhand.
Great seminar. Excellent skill-building drills and scenarios. SiFu Doc always delivers. Thanks to Bobby for use of the training location. Good to see the PC and Memphis guys still learning and training. Now, gotta go find some motrin! haha
PS: when in doubt…it’s all in your forms. 😉
Thanks for another great weekend! Thanks Bobby for the use of the House! Thanks to all who attended!
From your comments you had a great time!
See you next time!
For all you early birds, I will be in Holt Fri afternoon around 1600.
Advanced Instructions in “SHADOWHAND WING CHUN KUNG FU” Close Quarter Combat in practical situations i.e. Combat and Street confrontations.
Instruction in situational awareness
What to do in the first 3 seconds in any confrontation.
State of mind one has to have in order to quickly and decisively end any confrontation.
What techniques work on three levels: Good-Better and Best and a combination of all three.
Skillful use of the surrounding structures, meaning: Tables/Chairs, Benches/Steps
Multiple Attackers : Bars, Convenience stores and Restaurants.
I hope this answers your questions.
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ATTENTION ALL: Please be advised there will be a two day seminar in Holt, Fl. on February 7-8, 2015! Everyone is invited to attend! If you have been here before you know what to expect in regards to training.
Topics to be covered: advanced instructions in CQC [Close Quarter Combat] in practical situations i.e. Combat and Street confrontations.
If you are new to “SHADOWHAND WING CHUN KUNG FU” your training will be greatly enhanced by this two day intense training.
R.S.V.P. sifudoc@excite.com
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Welcome to the New Year! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and Happy New Year! I am starting the year off right with a seminar March 21st. 2015! Details to follow! And for all you spies out there you are welcome to join us! I don’t hide behind blocked web pages of facebook cover ups. We are free to have an opinion and study search and test our thoughts openly!
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Glad to see the site back up and running, SiGong! I guess Rudolph is still trying to play reindeer games, eh?
I get knocked down but I get up again! FUD!
Admin posting for Neil….”Finally made it up for one of Sifu Doc’s seminars and it was more than awesome! It was on Sifu bobby Beck’s 6 acer get-away. Being surrounded by nature and no distractions of TV or radio, it wing chun from sun up to sun down.Sifu Doc was more than generous with instruction and insight, even when the seminar was not in progress he was still giving you infoe and asking if you had any questions. It was also good to meet some of my other Shadowhand Brethren from the other Shadowh…and clans.No BS ego’s or attitudes here, just a great group of guy’s that are just as willing to help you as they where to hit you,LOL. If the North Shore of Hawaii is considered the Mecca for all surfer’s to go at least once in they’re life then Sifu Doc’s seminars is it for all serious Shadowhand practitioners. And even if Wing Chun is not your style Sifu Doc presents it in a way that you can grasp it. I’m already looking forward to the next one!”
Neil Estu
Treasurecoast Shadowhand Wingchun
Thank you SiGong Doc for the privilege of training at your Seminar this December. Although I have only been training Shadowhand for a few months, my level of understanding increased tremendously. This was due, in part, not only from your uncanny ability to catch an error from yards away, stop the class to have them watch as you thoroughly explained the error, but also the patient corrections I received from ALL the teachers I had the benefit to train with. I would encourage all students, no matter how short a time you have been training, to seek out a seminar you believe you’d be comfortable with and set your goal to attend!
I would also like to thank Bobby for his input as well as the area to train, and his father Bill for providing the vitals. Thanks again brothers for your patience, as I’m saving for the next seminar while I start to assimilate the impressive amount of knowledge from my notes.
Great Seminar Sifu, walking away with tons of knowledge and concept to practice and absorb. thank you Bobby and Family for the place to stay and the food was great!!! Please tell your Dad I said thanks 🙂 Always nice to see him.. thanks you Sifu Justin for all you do for me, to help make it possible for me to make it down to see and train with everyone. Hope to see you all soon.. Edward
Greetings Sifu Doc, that was a great seminar as all your seminars are great. Tell Bobby thank you for the breakfast & lunch. We went over so much material that some of it did sink in, & a big thank you for your seminars & training. Tell all my kung fu brothers thank you for training with me. I enjoyed it & see you all in 365 days. Yours truly Francis Jackson
Another great seminar! Sifu Doc can always show you something new in a drill you’ve done a ton of times, fine tuning techniques and furthering our understanding of Wing Chun concepts and applications. If you want to learn and willing to put in the time and effort, you couldn’t find a better source. Thanks to everyone that made the event a success!
Thank you to all that attended this year’s seminar! Thanks to Bill and Bobby for the wonderful food and a place for the students to train! From Texas to Maine, South Florida to Tennessee we are brothers dedicated to the preservation of Wing Chun Kung Fu! Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Another amazing seminar! Unfortunately I was only able to spend one day but even after being a student for 5 years I still learned something new. Thanks to all my wing chun brothers for their hospitality and phenomenal training. It’s always nice to be able to turn up the heat and receive the same with no bit***ng. Thank you SiFu for all you’ve taught and done for me. Peace my bros!
Excellent Shadowhand Wing Chun seminar this past weekend!
In three years with White Rose, I got a jacked-up version of 14 Gon Sau drills. In one weekend with SiFu Doc Savage, the creator of the Gon Sau drills, I learned 1-28. We also learned Close-up Drills and some of the Wooden Man Form. No stringing students along in Shadowhand!!!
SiFu Ed Holt, Dec. 2014
Memphis Shadowhand Wing Chun
What an awesome seminar! So much information, so freely shared in such a short span of time! I thank you SiGong Savage for the opportunity to train with you! SiFu Bobby thank you for the hospitality! SiFu Justin, I think you’ve traumatized my dog…he used to trust people…thank you for his new found vigilance! To everyone else who embraced me in brotherhood…you guys rock!
Thank you SiFu Doc for an enlightening seminar. Amazes me how much more there is to WC.
The private on Thursday was awesome!
Nice thorough review of the Gon Sau drills and the Close Up drills.
Especially enlightening for me was the footwork; the use of 2nd form concepts; Bil Jee hands; and, as always… the importance of good elbow pressure! 😉
Big thank you to Bill and Bobby for their tireless hospitality.
Great to train with all the visiting Shadowhand students and instructors.
Enero: sorry about the Gwat Sau hahaha
Slap Nuts: sorry about that Jum Sau to the clavicle 😉
Luigi : sorry bout them nutz!
Bobby: wish you hit harder…. (sissy)
Democrat: you deserved every beating I gave you! Haha
Steve: sorry about the dog! 🙂
America………..F**k Yeah!
Another banging seminar! Love training with the guys old & new! Saving up for the next one already! BTW the on-site lunch idea is a major improvement even if you are brown-bagging it. For future outings I issue this challenge: show up with twenty (20) fighting questions in hand! Let’s see WC from your perspective; might be something we don’t think about any more/take for granted as a given/or in my case never considered in the first place. While we have such a great source at our disposal we need to maximize!!!!
Until the next time, THANKS DOC.
ummm to the rest of you wussies: catch you later. ;D
It’s amazing how the White Rose students continue to try to slander SiFu Savage. I guess it’s what they have to do to make it seem like their school is legit. I’ve been to both seminars in Huntsville and SiFu Savage hasn’t changed not one bit of how or what he teaches. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar and a deceiver. As far as Ed being a SiFu in Tennessee isn’t of anyone’s concern. The definition of SiFu is “Teacher” or “Father”. It in no way means master and being a SiFu doesn’t mean you’ve mastered the art. Ed is a SiFu because he is teaching Wing Chun and had come to SiFu Savage to learn truth and to learn Shadowhand Wing Chun. He proved himself worthy and he makes visits often to Florida to train hard to become better for his students. That is good enough to hold the title of “SiFu”. If any student at White Rose would train as hard as they try to slander SiFu Savage’s or SiFu Ed’s name then maybe they’ll actually become a good wing chun practitioner. For anyone who really wants to study, search, and test come down to Florida and find out for yourselves. Just like many others have. Oh, and riddle me this batman? Why is it that several students of White Rose defected to join Shadowhand and not the other way around? The proof is in the punch!
No class Thur. night!
See you in Holt!
To SiGung Doc Savage: “To give you an honest answer about your challenge for me to waste my time and money driving to Holt, FL so you can “teach” me a lesson, I say nay to you sir. I’ve already attended a seminar in which you conducted. I’ve already bought your “manual” and forms DVD. I’ve had enough of the Doc Savage Shadowhand scheme. I have studied, searched, and tested. My findings have concluded that you did indeed lie to all of us last time you were here as your teachings changed in just under a year from seminar to seminar. Everyone I have spoken to that attended both of your Huntsville seminars confirmed for me that you changed the simple basics, and in doing so you attempted to lead us astray. I did appreciate the fact I got to meet my SiGung, a man of which I had heard so much about, and I was thankful that you had my girlfriend at the time and myself sit down with yourself, SiFu Carroll, Bobby, and the rest for dinner at Santa Fe Cattle Co. In my personal experience with you, the thought of you is associated with betrayal and lies as I wanted to believe that perhaps it was all some sort of weird lesson. Turns out, the lesson was that I was not to trust you. A hard lesson learned, but learned none-the-less. I am glad to see that just after only two or three seminars, you gave the title of “SiFu” to my kung fu brother Ed. Just goes to show even after all the shit talking you and your boys do about my SiFu’s teachings that he must have had enough skill to show up only a few times and be handed such a title.
In any case, I sincerely thank you for teaching my SiFu all that you have. Upon my first class with him I knew Wing Chun Kung Fu is what I wanted to learn exclusively. I’m happy to be a part of what is now called White Rose Wing Chun.
In any case, I sincerely thank you for teaching my SiFu all that you have. Upon my first class with him I knew Wing Chun Kung Fu is what I wanted to learn exclusively. I’m happy to be a part of what is now called White Rose Wing Chun.” Watts
I knew you would not show up.
But the deceit never ends.
Enough is Enough!
Anyone dissatisfied with anything they have bought. Come to Holt this weekend and we will fix any problem you might have.
My door is always open. I will be in Holt Wed-Thur-Fri-Sat and Sunday all day.
I/We await your arrival.
My Crack-Daddy abandons his children to suck a glass pipe filled with rose petals. He feeds his addiction of meglamania by sacrificing his own children’s futures. He is no better than the Crack-mamma who does the same, seeking the same. My Crack Mamma is whore named Rose, but she smells like anything but sharing her secret places with any who will pay her price. Her children too are neglected for her husband is a pimp whose heirarchy of concerns, start an end with his addiction to self, his addiction to Ego.
I know we are trying not to poke fun at such persons…but I do not speak as one poking fun, rather in all seriousness, pointing that is sad, truly sad, for there are other children being pimped, abused, neglected by crack, hidden from view world by parents who love to sing the loudest from the pews of the congregation the Carrolls of the Season, singing off key, but proudly so, arrogantly so, feigning righteousness on Sunday, only to prostitute their children on Monday, in effort to feed their addictions through Friday.
It is not the fault of the child who finds himself in the toxic relationship, who finds themselves the child of Crack-Daddy who in the face of parental obligations in negligent and when confronted with the same flees like “Dust-in the Wind.” Nor is the fault of the child whose mother abandons the NUTURE which SHOULD HAVE been in her nature to become Crack-Whore Mamma.
While the children hold their tongues for love of parents undeserving…and hold with their silence, also their eyes to the floor and the heads hung low as the realize none in the Church Congregation are buying the feigned righteousness of the Crack-Daddy and his Rose…but see them for what they are.
To these children, I would say as an older brother, the first born of Crack-Daddy, the first to call him “Father”…my younger siblings, abandon your shame, for it is not yours to wear, and sooner or later, these parents will come to their end, standing in a spotlight of their own neglect and abuse…
In the face of all this, while crack parents are nothing new and the truth of the same is sad, there is a very bright shining gift from heaven.
While it is not the fault of the Children that their parents have abandoned righteousness to choose addiction, some will go on to become the same, but some will along the way find salvation.
There are likewise good parents out there, whose children choose addiction, and the addiction of Crack Parents are not always the fault of the grandparents. How do you tell the difference in parents whose children grew up to be crackheads? How do you tell which parents contributed to the same addictions in their children and which ones did not? You tell it by their actions in the midst of such chaos. The righteous grandparent will take their grandchildren away from their own children, when their children have gone astray. They will not abandon “THE FUTURE”, for sake of “THE PRESENT.”
I THANK GOD for a RIGHTEOUS GRANDFATHER, not just willing, but waiting to take in his grandchildren, orphaned by their parents addictions.
I am grateful, to My SiGong, and to those who once called me brother, some of you will sadly adopt the addictions of Mamma-Rose as your own. It should be so, and it does not have to be so, but some of you, you know right from wrong, you see Crack-Daddy and Mamma-Rose for what they are, for their true natures…and I am telling you, no one put me up to this, no one knew I would be posting. How many of you my brothers and sisters still in the chains of abuse who come to this page and read silently, who visit and hide fact of the same…how many of you have been asked to sing false praises to feed the addictions of ego; how many of you who visit this page knowing if you were caught you’d be beaten and humiliated, ostracized and abandoned with even the poor food on your menu’s removed; how many of you knowing the truth have abandoned the same to choose the promotion of lies, if only by your silent witness of the same; by our Crack-Daddy and Mamma-Rose?
You have a Loving Grandfather, willing to welcome you, to embrace you, to give the nurture and nourishment you have been so deprived of.
He has embraced me, he has embraced others. He will not tolerate un-righteousness for those of you given to the addictions of Crack-Daddy and Mamma-Rose, so for some I recommend you find another path, seek other options, for those given to righteousness, to a path of choosing “RIGHT DOING”…I am testifying to you as I praise heaven itself and God her ruler, that I have a righteous Grandparent who took me in when I was orphaned by the addictions of my parents, I am testifying to you who visit in silence and fear of discovery of having done the same…
We have a loving grandfather, you are not,
Without Options.
-SiFu Steve Crider
it just so happens that I can add, and off the top of my head, I can tell you that from Memphis ALONE, Dunce-tan pulled in at least $12K over the 3 years I studied under him. Yet, I hadn’t even learned all the 3rd level gan sau drills from him, and not even a single move from the wooden man form. I can say with all confidence that he strung me along. For anyone who wants to call BS on my claim, keep this in mind: I have receipts and bank statements.
Reposted from Facebook by SiFu Ed Holt
Thank you for your post!
Someone needs to learn how to add. Not sit around and talk about something they have not researched. It seems the truth is hard to come by with these people! Find the truth for yourself and stop doing someone else’s bidding!