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Originally Posted by zing
Lau Gar original here lol There was a split and I trained in both for a while. Old Jeremy used to charge to much for gradings and took to much of a cut if the fees so I think a fair few of his instructors split and started their own style.
Where abouts are you? who is it you train under?
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am in south tyneside under Kuei-Ling with Steve East and Geoff banks who split away in 93 because master yau didnt want any kind of cross training with other styles at all.
the other local lau instructors were forbidden to talk to steve even socially.
www.kuei-ling.org.uk
I started in 2000 and have seen the local interest in kung fu just dive bomb to the point where theres maybe 4-5 adults training now.
the interest in freestyle kickboxing and MMA has just taken over.
tho I've never ever met an amateur MMA fighter who isnt just an arrogant (word not allowed here!) who disrespects the trad arts, despite the fact that MMA is a sport and traditional kung fu and the likes were developed as killing arts with no rules, bells, whistles or round fighting.