Master Yee posted a poem on his wall during the student reunion.  Written in Chinese we were able to find a helpful friend to translate.  Below is the translation: It was written by Su Shi (1036-1101), a well-known poet in Song Dynasty (960-1279). When Su Shi was young, he performed brilliantly ...

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Go to the Youtube home page, under search type stlkungfu.  You'll find videos from the kids class and two man training drills.

it's southern praying mantis kung fu-saint louis branch.  Try this link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=114725781904437#!/pages/Southern-Praying-Mantis-Kung-Fu-St-Louis-MO-Branch/114725781904437

This is an oldy but goody. GM Yee would say this usually when we were practicing forms.  Some students either by accident or purposely would add an extra motion.  When you add an extra motion and don't know what your doing the intention the form changes, your snake now has legs ...

Had to put this quote in because we heard it many many times during the 2010 student reunion.  For years we developed power and strength.  Now we are developing speed and mobility.  IF you can run and jump rope you'll have the mobility or that light on your feet quality ...

This years student reunion was a good time.  Many hours of training about 10 hours a day, the rest of the time we were either eating chinese food or asleep.  This is my 16th year attending the reunion.  I went down this year wondering what else is thier to learn.  ...

This quote is easy, folks who are all talk and don't follow up/back it up.

Next week I'll be posting our new schedule, some times/days will be changing.  We will also be going to a 12 week semester schedule.  Each semester works on a certain aspect of the kung fu.  Payment can be for the full semester or monthly.  Details coming soon.

This quote was by the late great Danny Fallon from New Jersey.  He was an "old school" martial artists from the 60's and 70's who fortunately was able to live into the 1990's.  This man judged his power on how many car lengths he could knock someone back.  Later in ...