It takes a great deal to get me "steamed up" but I recently read of a post by a so-called well known Crane follower who is more of an commercial entity than a practitioner who as per usual had a great deal to say about the subject of internal martial arts training and the well known Taiji/White Crane Exponent Huang Shen Shyan/Huang Xin Xien.
This guy went on to write that Master Huang was a great Taiji stylist but not very well known nor regarded for his White Crane!!! This Dollar-Bill Crane went on to state that he had once crossed hands with Master Huang a and was pushed up against a wall but this was largely due only to his own "superior fighting skills". Oh he of little ego! He then goes one to state the he never studied White Crane or Tai Chi with Master Huang but still has the audacity to run him and his skill down.
To quote this guy from his own blog:
"Hey, if you want to say something, say it in the open, veils are for the ladies and sissies."
Well big guy, how about it!
What it must be like to live in his world of self superiority, ego and commercially vested interests. This same guy once dissed Great Master Ruan Dong as being only a "Wushu" stylist but then went on to produce a DVD using footage of Great Master Ruan Dong performing his Crane Boxing for which I am sure he did not give of the proceeds of the sale of this DVD to those esteemed masters who gave of their time to perform their arts for same!
This guy is a well known seller of of all things Chinese Martial Arts related. He most likely reproduces copyright material of others on his blog site never giving credit to the real authors and will sell such material as being his own.
He is fast becoming known of a man of "Empty Chi", a "Dollar $ifu" who would sell his own mother if it would bring him a profit! For one so "well" versed in things Crane, he sure has a lot to learn about the control of one's own ego and is missing one essential ingredient of the martial arts .... that of modesty.
