Post Card from Hong Kong
Found an old post card dated 27/12/02 that i sent to my family from my trip to Hong Kong for the late Grandmaster Ip Shui’s birthday party where he passed over the head of the Chow Gar TOng Long Southern Mantis system to his son Ip Chee Keung. Thought it would be cool to write it up on here as it brought back some good memories of the trip, training and Si Gung Ip Shui:-
Hello / Waiiiii and Lai Ho?
Everything is cool and having a good time. Grandmaster is very kind to have us stay at his apartment and so far I havent wrecked much. HK is so busy and the buildings are HUGE and there are shops and markets everywhere. Every street is selling everything at a price and I am haggling for as much as I can, its great fun and someone of them congratulate you on a good barter on the price.
Have been waking up early to train, go out and spend the day in HK or train with Sifu. So far not done much except train because of the party (although have seen HK and went into china). After the party we will go back to china (shenzen) to haggle and buy cheap stuff, go site seeing and train more.
Grandmaster is funny, quiet and nice. He wakes up at 6am to pray every morning as well as every afternoon (very peaceful). He will than go out and come back and call us lazy and say he has just come back from training and doing his morning stuff. At 90 he still the man and very active. Everyone knows him in kowloon. His party is going to be big!
I am eating ok, it can be a bit difficult and I am getting bored of the same food - everything seems to have pork in it, if you dont eat pork you get these reactions (you dont eat pork?!!! or its ok you can have tofu (again) or you want pork?!) haha. We are all planning the last 12 days to go site seeing, train more(obviously). Sifu Paul Brennan from Australia is here and training with him is great, real eye opener. Oh and shop more. So much to do and see.
*the next bit is all stuff like i miss mums cooking and miss you all so i will leave that out!*
Links to photos from my trip can be seen here -
Hong Kong:
Hong Kong City Pictures 2002 - 1
Hong Kong City Pictures 2002 - 2
Si Gung Ip Sui’s birthday:
Grandmaster Ip Shui’s Chow Gar Southern Mantis Birthday Picture / Images - 1
Grandmaster Ip Shui’s Chow Gar Southern Mantis Birthday Picture / Images - 2
Training:
Various Chow Gar Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu training pics in Hong Kong 2002
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