Speak of the Devil! .. Howard and I exchanged IM's
about you just the other day! How are you? Everyone
misses you at KK. Yeah the Princeton thing was quite
fun and different than the usual. Quite unexpected. I
thought it would be just a discussion and then I get a
phone call asking me to perform and with something
different as the spear. Too many people were doing
swords. Pays to be versitile huh?

Mel

--- Becky Sheetz <rssheetz@...> wrote:

> Sounds cool, Mel. Man, you get to do everything!
> Becky
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mel <tonji152@...>
> To: tristatewushukungfu@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:38:18 AM
> Subject: [tristatewushukungfu] Princeton Univ
> Lecture on the benefits of Martial Arts Excellence
> held on 10/18
>
>
> Hey gang,
>
> I was asked to take part in an interesting event
> today at Princeton
> Univ. Good friend John Lee of the International
> Traders Group 8
> invited me as well as a few others to attend the
> lecture that he was
> giving and agreed to demonstrate our martial arts
> skills to those in
> attendance. Broadsword seemed very popular so I was
> asked to perform
> the Chinese spear (Chiang) for contrast. I don't
> mind being
> the "different guy" so I agreed and put myself
> through a crash course
> having only less than a week's prior notice. I've
> used the weapon
> before and learned a begginner's set with the
> intention of moving on
> to advanced but kept putting it off since I have so
> many pending
> projects on the backburner. What I needed was a
> REASON to focus and
> this was it. The lecture was slated for 4:30pm and
> the demo about 45
> mins later outside in the courtyard area of the
> Engineering Library.
> John Lee also displayed his Golden Millenium Jian.
> The worlds largest
> sword. Which will be presented at the 2008 Olympics.
> Measuring 2008
> cms for obvious reasons, with 56 carved dragons on
> the blade to
> represent the 56 different ethnic groups in China.
> Also a crarved
> popem on the other side of the balde dedicated to
> the only female
> ruler in Chinese history, and finaly the 5 rings of
> the Olympics.
>
> The were impressive diplay os skills in TaiChi,
> WingChun, Bagua dao,
> SilLum Pai, Straightsword, spear, even some Filipino
> Arnis by Master
> Lledo and blade testing by John Lee himself.
> Afterwards we were all
> treated to a 1st class catered dinner at the
> Rockefellar Dining
> facility. I hope to have pics posted in the very
> near future so keep
> an eye out!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mel
>
>
>
>
>


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