An open letter to a friend in Auckland, New Zealand

Hello Matey!

I haven't heard from you in a while. How are things going with you? I just finished reading the book 'Cry of theTiger: Amazing true story of Tony Anthony, the Kungfu champion'. It reminded me so much our lives....And what you've been through.

Steven tell me about your kungfu training. Are you mostly focusedon the martial aspects of your tiger-crane style? Oh yeah, Are you learning tiger style and crane style or a combined form? I saw that in Shaolin they learn them as two separate forms while somewhere in southern China there is a combined form.

As you know with me, I'm still doing Bagua under God's light. And that is why I will not learn a weapon form because I've come to believe in the saying of 'he who lives by the sword dies by the sword'. The true way of Bagua is to surpass one's fighter stage and become something beyond a sifu. The old Grandmaster Moogui in Kungfu Panda best enlightens that way.

Take care, your distant pal... Hantzu