My meeting with LUN KAI in 1995 PART 2
Now that the waves around the topic LUN KAI finally calmed down. I feel it is about time for me to give thanks to some representatives of various styles. It does not matter if your opinion is neutral or even criticaly acclaimed.
It was to be expected that numerous unprofessional insults and judgements towards Master LUN KAI and myself would occur. Internetforums lay the foundation for that behaviour. You spew about three to four sentences out there send them of and feel like its a masterpiece!
Of course i was happy to receive all these E mails and i beg your pardon if i dont answer each and everyone of them. Before i leave to Greece and attend the major training camp i would like to respond to a couple of questions.
Condemning or being judgemental towards GM Leung Ting referring to this topic from my point of view is only possible in a speculative manner. Not even i know what was said in chinese before the meeting and regarding my Sifu K.R. Kernspecht i would hope that he found out about the meeting and its agenda after we came back.
- LUN KAI was not told to teach me nor was he in the postition to correct me nor did i asked him to perform Chi-Sao with me. Everything that was said before our Chi-Sao altercation was translated from Chinese to English and from English to German. If any misconceptions occured during that process then i will have to say that it is not my fault! When he attempted to correct me i clearly demonstrated to him that i was not interested in him doing so. If i would have steped out of the central line between us as he wished for me to do i would have been an easy target to him. He did not react to me at all. The least of us would be keen on instructing a person that shows no interest and does not want to be corrected especially a chinese Kung Fu Master
- The clash between the traditional Chinese Chi-Sao as it is teached in China and the one being teached in Europe was not my idea.
- The meeting was not of a competitive spirit it was suposed to be a technical comparison between the two and the Chi- Sao teached bei Leung Ting won.
- Leaving the hotelroom was not an option for me cause it was my room!
- The report shows that nobody was hurt and all of the other allegations concerning that issue are just speculations.
- While i was preforming Chi-sao with him i was moving slowly from the very begining. LUN KAI defended my first attempt of striking him and as he started to move more rapidly i just reacted and thats how the bondage from the 4th form took place. why was that the wrong reaction Chi-Sao consits of action and reaction!
- If i would have been in his place i would have stoped after the first time we got tied up right after i attempted my strike. I would have praised the Chi-Sao by Leung Ting and saved my face. Instead of doing so he ran his head against the wall determined to hit me. More experienced fighters know that you can only defend so i defended myself by openly counter attacking him.
When i first met LUN KAI he was 69 years of age and has never lost a fight he is known and respected for that. He is a man of great influence in Fatshan. At one of the meals we sat at a big round table. A lot of Sifus embracing different stylez were there and everyone that stood up walked at or walked away from him took a bow before LUN KAI. He himself thought that he is the only true student of GM YIP MAN and had no respect nor recognition for the Leung Ting techniques of the European System.
Bild:Der Polizeischef bei seiner Kung-Fu Vorführung
No matter how the meeting could have ended it was meant for a person to lose. If my techniques would have not been at his level of skill and if i would have got beaten up then my career would of been over since. I mean everybody would have taunted me. By the way i acted i am the badguy to some that was hitting on a old Chinese man. I chose the lesser of the two evils. Their has always been jealousy and envy
I have announced that i will continue to work with pictures texts and video footage about the pioneerdays of WT. I will report to you about all the things going on in the backround ( and all the bottomless pits ). Their are alot more reports of my journey trough China. They will not be releasesed ( at least not trough the internet).
looking forward to hold the summer training camp in Greece / Volllos and escaping the unpredictable weather wich is part of this summer!
Sifu / Dai-Sifu
Anastasios Panagiotopoulos
