Report a comment Thank you for taking the time to report the following comment to the administrator of this site. Please complete this short form and click the submit button to process your report. Name   E-mail   Reason for reporting comment       Comment in question By: Fran Johnson (Registered IP 88.23.136.121) on 13-03-2008 00:14 I don't know what it is about Mr Starr but i like where he's coming from. I have read several of his articles, this is going back some time and i can equate to what he says. i look forward for more from him.  I studied Kung Fu/Wing Chun a long time ago but i still have an interest in it. I agree with what you say. Pick up a directory now and you can't move for teaching schools. The physical side is obvious at most of these classes..but that hidden side i'm sure is not revealed so readily. It still holds a veiled mystique  My teacher was chinese. At class he kept himself contained and anonymously discreet, he was respectful towords us and treated us individually. He always spoke about M/A as being more of a mind and body thing that outweighed the actual ability to fight for fightings sake. Better to walk away. But he never clued us to this subtlety. His class stared off with a steady breathing program with eyes closed followed by gentel warm up and streatching muscle tone excersises then the more traditional forms and stances. siu lim tao first form and it applications to name. But his approach was so vague..yet determined...he would show me a few moves that week and i would have to practice it again and again in class.. practice makes perfect. But that's all i learnt..I gleamed no further insight into the true art from where HE was coming from...I know that dedication to this art is warrented, it takes a lifetime to perfect if at all, so why continue to strive towards it. Does that determination and dedication reveal that mystique that i found so elusive or is it simply a question of knowing oneself. and if you finally do, how can you infiltrate that back to anyone...in a way it seems so selfish if you can't. i hope i haven't drifted too far with this...   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... »  Go back to the article