by Jashu65 » Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:46 am
Zip,
HA, HA, HA, HA! Zip, I would like to know how old you are if 24 years isn't considered to be a lengthy amount of time. In all seriousness Zip, the point I was trying to make is that virtually all the Archived 1981 footage that you see on the front page of his website is Kenpo techniques (minus the Tai Chi 2-man set). This can't be his 18-Daoist Palms, or otherwise he is a very bad liar. Again I don't think he is a fraud just because of that. Anyway, I guess the only way to see if he legit is to buy one of his tapes and judge by yourself. I mean, if you think about it - Ed Parker was called a fraud by a large number of his former students, yet just about every American Kenpo School traces their roots to Mr. Parker. I guess if you are successful, you are going to have your fair share of critics.
I saw a thread here about some criticizing Lacy's distance learning process. You know, the Karate Connection does the same thing - they have the student turn in "test tapes" for the instructors to review. According to the founders of the system, the distance learning students are better at the basics of the system then the ones who train with instructors - since a tape can be replayed a number of times. But I would like to point out that this only works for the physical techniques - you need to find a competant instructor to progress with the qigong techniques.
A journey will rarely teach you anything new if you dont have an idea where you are going.