Same same but different

Today I spent the day with a dude from a choy lay fut team. It was their anniversary so he invited me to come see some performances and have lunch/dinner. Really nice people. One of the dudes bought me breakfast and didn't eat himself.

SG, SG, Ipoh,

Besides the Singaporean school, teams from KL, Ipoh, HK and Canton came to celebrate with them. All up there were about 250-300 people all under the same name. Their LD is pretty good - lively and very traditional.

Elemental Chang - they put oranges on the characters and a lettuce in the middle

 In the morning they had a ceremony where all the elders made offerings to Guan Gong, lighted incents and prayed. I checked out their training hall which had some pretty koota looking weapons. I asked around annd found out that they get their lions from Canton and Singapore. A lion head here is about $200SG although it looks smaller and slightly lower in quality than the Siows we have back home.

Entrance and top of the altar. Koota Guan Gong painting

I watched a Dim Jing during dinner that went for about 15 minutes. The lion was blind folded, they read poems and threw 2 small bags of some kind of white powder on the floor.They full on wrap the leaves and ribbon to the horn with industrial sticky tape.

Blind folded lion before dim jing

 During the dinner representatives of the schools performed forms -juniors first then more senior as the night progressed. The quality of the KF was really good. Good stances, good power, good energy. The dudes from Ipoh and KL are top notch. are-ee-ess-pee-ee-cee-tee

My phone was going nuts and so this guy is headless

 Among the crew there were 3 daughters of one of the Sifu. Honestly when i first saw them I thought they were pampered princesses but then they did some pretty fkn good forms and later we were talking in a group. I have got to say they were extremely passionate about their LD and their KF.

Sorry boys no pic for this one but here's a fish they kept at the back

 I have a whole bunch of videos but I probably won't upload them. I'll show you guys when I get back.

All in all I was quite happy to see a group of people dedicated to tradition and traditional fut san in a country dominated by Hok San style and have been thoroughly motivated to start training by myself. Might join that Hung Gar school Tjia was talking to me about. I've already been going for runs and light workouts but I think its time to start doing KF again. To all my Xiong Di back in Melbourne - go hard or go home.

massive selection of broad swords