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We closed out Part II of this analysis by digressing to acknowledge the obvious significance of consolidations in the history of classical Kung fu; however, our subject in review was the flooding of the instructional videotapes/DVDs market with bastardized material of all kinds. Regardless of values or intentions, now any idiot with a camera could film whatever nonsense occurred to his severely limited imagination and become a heretofore unknown purveyor of ‘teaching’ supposedly depicting training programs and procedures kept secret for centuries–secret systems, techniques, strategies, etc., which rapidly became the rage, and the proliferation of such crap went absolutely ballistic!...
In Part I of this series we suggested a number of foundational reasons for the apparent decline of interest in classical kung fu over the past 30+ years — specifically, five major categories with any number of related subdivisions. Your author readily acknowledges the extensive damage these five have done, but also alluded to a sixth factor which from its incipience portended more negative implications than all the other five factors combined! Historically, Green Dragon was ideally positioned to closely track this disabling factor from its inception. When we began our mail-order instructional videotape division in 1986, there was only...
Anyone familiar with the Chinese Martial Arts should realize that since Inside Kung Fu Magazine was discontinued, there has been no advocate speaking with experience on behalf of pure, classical kung fu taught in the traditional manner. Many feel the decline in historically accurate, authentic kung fu has accelerated largely due to no knowledgable spokesman or forum for presenting views on issues as Sifu Allen did in his columns and feature articles for that publication. Since losing the resource base of the most balanced magazine in the industry, the only recourse is a few ‘specialty’ magazines primarily dedicated to the...
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