Masters
June 17, 2009
It’s very easy to write on my blog when so much happens in a matter of a few days.
Last week, I received a message from a couple of my kung fu brothers that an Australian tai chi/wing chun teacher visited the school and helped demonstrate some tai chi techniques and training methods to the class. On Saturday, he came again and this time I was there to meet him.
I am so glad I got to meet Sifu Mark Rasmus. He is a very polite and friendly martial arts teacher who was very respectful to all of us and our modest little school. He was also kind enough to be the guest teacher that day and he helped show us a lot of what the inner arts has to offer.
I’ve met a few inner arts teacher including my first teacher, Sifu Lee. With the inner arts training comes this power that’s almost mystical. Once you connect with a great teacher, you will immediately notice the inner power – they are like an immovable wall. Sifu Mark has incredible power – I’ve never experienced that kind of inner strength before. He could easily find my center of gravity with a mere touch and send me flying back if he so wanted to. I was floored – in the metaphorical sense, and luckily not in the literal sense.
I only wish Sifu Steve was in town to meet Sifu Mark – I think these two great masters would get along and there would be some very interesting conversation or debates about martial arts. We the students would benefit greatly from this.
