2015 SUMMER HAKKA MANTIS FRIENDSHIP TOUR

L) RDH R) Sean W. Robinson, Hong Kong, 2015 Mantis Friendship Tour

I'm coming on 60 years soon and for the third year now Sean W. Robinson, my good student, has accompanied me on the annual Hakka Mantis Friendship tours.  Sean is a lifelong martial artist who has trained the world over and a PhD candidate in Anthropology.

Once a year I try to gather all the Hong Kong and China Hakka Mantis brothers together for a celebration.  Nowadays, time isn't as simple and slow as days gone by.  But, Sean W. Robinson has kept up a daily Hakka Mantis training routine for his third year.  Laudable that is, in itself!

ANTHONY CHAN SIFU, HONG KONG, SUMMER, 2015

BROTHER CHENG CHIU CELEBRATES 60, SUMMER 2015

My late Sifu Cheng Wan's son, and my Sihing, Cheng Chiu, celebrated, in style, his 60th birthday this summer, 2015!   Students and brother-friends came from as far away as America to join in the celebration. 

Above pics, (Ah Chiu in touring cap), he refines Instructor Billy Li's four corners form.  Find Sifu and Ah Chiu's book here.  And I presented Ah Chiu with the Chu Gar Skills:  Yang Clan and Huizhou Hakka Mantis book for his enjoyment!

WONG YU HUA TREATS PATIENTS AT KWONG WU TONG, SUMMER 2015

After 23 years of brother-friendship with Wong Yu Hua Sifu, he continues to spread the Hakka Mantis Dit Da Medicine, Unicorn Culture, and Kwongsai Mantis Boxing!  In 2009, he was awarded the Intangible Cultural Heritage Award by the government.

I stopped by this summer several times, but just last week he had some 15 people, many if not most patients, in the Kwong Wu Tong clinic.  More than a decade ago, I accompanied Wong when he was treating elderly patients for free - in their homes!  Now they come to him!  He is a Dit Da philanthropist!

I presented him the Chu Gar Fist and Hakka Mantis Maxims books for his enjoyment!  He also has all my books.  In the above picture he is playing "Three Steps-Three Scissors" single man form.   Expect further releases in 2016!

BROTHER-FRIEND OF 40 YEARS, JERRY CHAU, PASSES AT 57

Jerry and I were 101st Airborne Infantry.  We were in Asia in 1976.  He passed this summer from colon cancer leaving an empty spot in my heart.  We talked weekly for the last 40 years.  He was the Associate Publisher for MAC and PRP magazines!  I loved Jerry Wai Chung Chau and he loved Chinese culture including Chinese Kung Fu and contributed immeasurably to my efforts in preserving and promoting Hakka Mantis!   See you under the Peach Tree on the other side!