My meeting with LUN KAI in 1995
Just this morning i received a call from one of my students he said: "Sifu their talking about the footage of you and LUN KAI why dont you react to this nonsense? at first i tought this can only be a joke but all jokes aside somebody is trying to stirr up something that was settled in the past!
Are you sleeping under a stone or what? this footage is 14 years old and has already been discussed back then so your not starting anything new here! and you dont seem to be a very smart person!
So i would like to clearify to you and others what realy happened in that hotelroom in Fatshan. 5 Years ago my student Sifu Alan Senko gave the world a story on what has happened. I will use parts of it again.
I will post this article on my webpage all the other published remarks regarding this particular story were not made by me nor do i advocate them.
My trip to China:
Picture: GM Leung Ting the Chinese Police Chief Instructor and i are having a welcomeing toast
Picture: The living legacy of China prof. Chun.
In 1995 i went on a trip to travel trough China. My student Mike escorted me to Hong Kong and Fatshan home of the GGM YIP MAN. The journey to the roots of my way of martial arts had a great importance to me and it was a very enlightening and interesting experience. Some pictures were posted for some time on my webpage for you to see and of course i used this trip as a opportunity to meet with students of the GGM YIP MAN.
Iwhenwe arrived in Hong Kong GM Leung Ting offerd me to meet four masters on my round trip and asked me " if i was willing to challenge them " out of curiosity i asked him who these masters were and he replied " if you are scared then leave it". It was a true test of whiz for me cause i did not know what i was about to get into nor did i know who these masters will be and what kind of Kung Fu style the practiced and how old they were i did not have a clue! i chose to consent i did not want to stand as a coward in the presence of GM Leung Ting.
Picture: In front of the tempel of Fatshan.
The first meeting with the honourable master LUN KAI was held in a hotel in the province of Fatshan. I was accompanied by GM Leung Ting and the chief instructor of the chinese police. It supposively should have been a friendly meet and greet scenario an a exchangement between traditional chinese wing chun and the europeanised Wing Tsun developed by GM Leung Ting. Whoever believes that master LUN KAI was an old and fragile man is truely wrong in fact he is known as " the idol of Fatshan"
LUN KAI is a original and direct student of GGM YIP MAN and a respected person such as fighter he has never lost a fight even if he was an older person and despite of his age LUN KAI was very powerful very fast very agile and a highly skilled master and by the way who says that a older person cant be dangerous?
It was probably his status and pride wich led him to launch all these attacks against me so i played my part in his " game " but stuck to "playing" by only attempting strikes and possible hits. i was aware of the fact that LUN KAIs reputation i was a big factor to him so i concentrated on just controlling him. most of my strikes were held back and if i realy did touch him it was harmless and slightly but yet controlled.Those out there that do know me can reinsure to you that i never back up and in this video footage you can clearly see that i was backing up working against my instincts.
Master Lun KAI increased the pressure till it got to a point where i would have to react just in order to not get hit myself. It was clear that he was the older more experienced teacher but i myself had a international reputation to defend as well plus i was representing the skills of my Dai sifu who was also the head Sifu of the EWTO organisation.
The footage clearly displays the power and energy that he used against me. His attacks can be easily pointed out and as we practiced he slaped me right in my face ( remember the friendly meeting?) and thats the point where my patience just ran out on me. I did not want to be humiliated in front of everybody so i accelerated speed and power my movements where still contolled and did not mean to harm him. The carefull viewer can see that i am trying to keep eye contact with the person behind the camera: GM Leung Ting. I was hopeing for him to stop this demonstration and if you play the original footage you can hear me asking him to translate to LUN KAI that i refuse to be hit ( german ).
We parted ways based on mutual respect and on a amicable manner. as we said goodbye he gave thanks to me for controlling my punches and even said: " that i would one day be at the level of GGM YIP MAN" seriously if he would have felt like he has been insulted or shamed do you realy think he would have made these incredible compliments? I think not.
But thats not it. When the other three masters heard about what had happened they did not show up to the negotiated meeting point. it was obvious that i had accomplished my task wich was bestowed upon me by GM Leung Ting. It took a certain period of time till i realized what the meaning of that meeting really was.
In retrospect the real question would be: who benefited from that "meeting"? wich was already published by the EWTO magazine ( issue 18 ) and stated: that from that day on the chinese police will be trained by european instructors. It was all about money power and influence hopeing to establish european Wing Tsun and help it to spread across China.
I personaly had no interest at all in shaming LUN KAI in public. Before releasing this footage my Sifu ( GM Kernspecht ) did not even know about the excistance of this footage till he was told about it 6 months later. i personally would have never released the footage.
All critics should know that times back then were the way they were and you would have to live it in order to understand it. Every single one of us who had a higher master rank were a part of a big system and our responsibilty was to do the unpopular jobs while others would stand inside the big picture purely and innocent. Each person who thinks that WT has spread by itself is completly wrong. WT will not work if its not worked trough all of us. We helped to broaden it my fellows and i. We who helped to delevop the movement as we did back then on our trip trough China.
I was first to join my Sifu Kernspecht in Eutin my student Sifu Alan came along with us to meet up with the German Police Special Forces( SEK ). In Italy i demonstrated WT to the Italian Police on several occasions the Italian WT Chief Instructor was my personal translator. My effort inside the EWTO is to constantly hold seminars where i can convice and facinate others for the art form. I attended to 2 Budo shows i did demonstrations of the art form in Thailand i trained in Greece and Cyprus as a WT Chief Instructor. I had 16 schools in the district of Baden-Württemberg Germany. I had countless fights and was constantly challenged all of that lies in the past. I did that in order to make WT popular and to give you the oppertunity to learn WT! WT is the basis of a lot of other movements that arose from it you can find them all over Germany and on a international basis.
Picture: Sifu GM Kernspecht in a school in Athens.
Now you are in for it! And now i would like to address my word to the anonymous person that dosnt seem to be able to criticize me or other Masters and that wants to dirty up my name. Why not write with your real name? just give us your full address and tell us what you have done for the cause? a lot of people in this world will never get to know themselves cause the are to worried about others.
Picture: All that glitters is not gold...
It is undeniable that i have made mistakes but who hasnt? and who can hounestly believe that they are free from flaws? It is only important to learn from these mistakes. Knowadays 10 15 20 years ahead of those times i have a different view on a lot of things and i look at things from a diffrent perspective. The way i see myself is a good example for what im saying. How come no one complained about the footage when i was still a master for the EWTO? They started to clean dirty laundry after i left and turned my back on them and as so often their are a lot of people talking that shouldnt be talking and should rather shut up!
And what exactly is going on today? suddenly somebody starts to bring that footage back up and people that dont even know where Fatshan is in China nor know what kind of status LUN KAI has in that country are starting to attack me!
Just to have proof and evidence of what i am saying is true i walked down to the basement of my house to gather up all the material for the public eye to see what really went down on that day. this will not be the last detailed insight i will share with you guys out there during my 30 year career. I will digitalize that footage and present it to the public in abetter quality i gatherd up a lot of interesting material and everything i share with you will have evidence and proof attached to it. Some are gonna hate me for that others will encourage and thank me for it. I will make sure that it will work in the cause of keeping my name clean, but it shall also enlighten minds and be a factor for peace.
to you out there who are loving and loyal
I would like to send greetings
yours,
Sifu/Dai Sifu
Anastasios Panagiotopoulos
And here you have the live footage with original comments made :
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