White Crane visitor

Mattson Sensei:

I hope you are doing well and don't mind my emailing you. I am a long-time Goju-Ryu student of Kimo Wall and Kobudo Student of Gakiya Yoshiaki.

I have for the last few years been researching and training in a few of the martial arts that have been considered likely influences on early Okinawan martial arts, including several forms of White Crane and Five Ancestors boxing, both here and in Malaysia / Singapore. My friend and White Crane (Shouting Crane and Ancestral Crane) instructor, Eric Ling will be coming to the US this fall (from Malaysia), and I wanted to see if you might be interested in hosting him for a seminar while he is in the USA. His teaching style is highly energetic, and fully of two-man drills and discussions of the principles and poems that lend so much information to the techniques and forms.

Please let me know if this would be of interest to you, or if you know of any other schools that may be interested in learning some Shouting or Ancestral Crane from an excellent source.

You can find more information about Eric Ling at his blog: http://eric88ling.wordpress.com/ . I would also highly recommend spending some time on his Youtube channel to get and appreciation of some of the materials available to him. http://www.youtube.com/user/eric88ling

There are also a few videos of me demonstrating some of Eric's material at a recent Gasshuku here: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=BOVW&view=videos . Look for the videos marked "White Crane..." and "Redirection"


Best Regards,


Best Regards,


Russ Smith
http://www.Goju-Ryu.info/