I was fortunate enough to spend a year or so in a school run by Victor Kan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kan
He trained with Bruce Lee under the instruction of the great Ip Man, and one of the things I liked about his school was his different attitude to paying respect. I had a brief period when I started Karate, and at the commencement of the lesson, I paid my respects to my Sifu. With Victor, I paid my respects to his Sifu , Ip Man. One other major difference was the manual dexterity that Victor had retained, and he was able to use a fine brush to form small and intricate Chinese characters. This was the result of using contra exercises to preserve natural dexterity. If one spent 20 minutes punching a bag full of ball bearings, one needed to spend the next 20 minutes avoiding the loss of mobility.
He trained with Bruce Lee under the instruction of the great Ip Man, and one of the things I liked about his school was his different attitude to paying respect. I had a brief period when I started Karate, and at the commencement of the lesson, I paid my respects to my Sifu. With Victor, I paid my respects to his Sifu , Ip Man. One other major difference was the manual dexterity that Victor had retained, and he was able to use a fine brush to form small and intricate Chinese characters. This was the result of using contra exercises to preserve natural dexterity. If one spent 20 minutes punching a bag full of ball bearings, one needed to spend the next 20 minutes avoiding the loss of mobility.
Very cool. Still to this day, once or twice a year Dan Inosanto comes to town and does a weekend long seminar. He was one of Bruce Lee’s closest friends and training partner. He has a lot of great stories about Lee.
