About Me
NO NONSENSE APPROACH IN CLOSE RANGE TACTICAL COMBAT. (IT'S AS REAL AS IT GETS)** I WAS BORN IN THE BRONX, N.Y.C. WITH A PASSION IN ONE DAY OF BECOMING A KUNG FU MASTER AND TEACHER.BEING RAISED IN A BAD ENVIRONMENT, INFESTED WITH GANG VIOLENCE, DRUGS, AND POOR LIVING CONDITIONS, INFLUENCED THE PERSON THAT I LATER BECAME.AFFILIATING MYSELF WITH THE GANG LIFE, MEANT BEING IN CONSTANT RIVALRIES AND BATTLES, AND WITH THAT TYPE OF LIFE CAME THE TEST OF MY MARTIAL ART SKILLS. STUDYING FROM MANY KUNG FU TEACHERS, AND SPARRING WITH PEOPLE FROM ALL TYPE OF MARTIAL ART BACKGROUND, GAVE ME THE EDGE THAT I NEEDED TO SURVIVE IN THE STREETS. DEALING WITH REAL LIFE SITUATIONS MEANT EITHER YOU DEFEND YOUR LIFE, OR BE KILLED. THE STREETS BECAME THE RING, AND THE BATTLE ZONE WAS MY TOURNAMENT. WITH MANY YEARS OF REAL STREET FIGHTING EXPERIENCE COMES THE REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE NEEDED TO TEACH A PRACTICAL COMBATIVE WAY OF FIGHTING COMPOSED FROM TRADITIONAL PRICIPLES AND BASED ON CONCEPTS THAT WITHSTOOD THE TEST OF TIME. THANKS TO A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, AND 2 CONCUSSIONS, A FRACTURED SKULL, OVER A DOZEN BROKEN BONES, MANY MUSCLE INJURIES, AND A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE, MADE ME REALIZE THAT I NEEDED TO CHANGE MY LIFE. I JUST WANT TO THANK MY MOTHER FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR HER CONSTANT PRAYERS, AND FOR ALWAYS BELIEVING IN ME.
(ABOUT THE ART)**FIERCE, EXPLOSIVE, DEVASTATING, SOFT BUT YET HARD, ENDLESS IN COMBINATION, FREE FLOWING IN MOTION, ATTACKING VITAL POINTS, IS PART OF WHAT MAKES UP THE EXPLOSIVE POWER OF THE 5 PEDAL PLUM BLOSSOM FIST KUNG FU ROTATING HAND SYSTEM. THE SYSTEM IS COMPOSED OF THREE FORMS FROM WHICH 123 HAND MOVEMENTS, 15 STANCES, AND 7 KICKS ARE USED IN AN UNLIMITED COMBINATION USING THE SOFT, HARD, AND COMBINATION OF BOTH, COINCIDING WITH THE DIFFERENT FORCES, DIRECTIONS, AND ANGLES. EACH MOVEMENT IS TAUGHT INDIVIDUALLY IN ORDER TO STUDY THE NATURE OF THE CHARACTER OF EACH MOVEMENT, WHILE MAINTAINING TRADITIONAL PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS. THE AWKWARD FOOTWORK IS VERY EFFICIENT AND IGNITES THE EXPLOSIVENESS IN THE ATTACK, SOMETIMES LEAVING THE OPPONENT CONFUSED, OR UNABLE TO DEFEND. THE ROTATING HAND SYSTEM IS THE FOUNDATION AND BASES FROM WHICH THE PRACTITIONER WILL GAIN PROPER BODY MECHANICS IN ORDER TO EXECUTE THE MOVEMENT WITH SOFTNESS, AND YET WITH POWER. **THE SMALL PLUM FIST IS THE FIRST FORM WITHIN THE SYSTEM, WHICH IS THE ANALYZING STAGE FROM WHERE QI IS CULTIVATED AND PROPER ROTATING HAND MECHANICS. THE SPIRAL FORCE OF THE ROTATING HAND SYSTEM CAN BE INCORPORAYED INTO ANY FORM IN ORDER TO INCREASE STRIKING POWER AND SPEED IN TIGHT SPACES. THROUGH THE UNTRAINED EYES, THE SYSTEM CAN SEEM SIMPLE AND PLAIN, BUT THE OUTCOME OF THE EXPLOSIVE RESPONSE CAN BE VERY DEVASTATING. THE SYSTEM IS COMPLETE WITH SOFT AND HARD, FAST AND SLOW, LONG RANGE AND SHORT RANGE, CIRCULAR AND LINEAR, EXPLOSIVE AND SUBTLE, AS FOUND IN THIS SCIENTIFIC WAY OF FIGHTING.
(CREDENTIALS)**I'M A KUNG FU MASTER, CREATOR/FOUNDER OF THE 5 PEDAL PLUM BLOSSOM FIST KUNG FU ROTATING HAND SYSTEM. I HAVE 27 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE MARTIAL ART WORLD. I'M A MEMBER AND HOLD A MASTER BLACK BELT IN THE EASTERN U.S.A. INTERNATIONAL MARTIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION. DEVOTING MY LIFE TO THE ART I HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE WORLD WIDE MARTIAL ARTS HALL OF FAME AS INSTRUCTOR OF THE YEAR IN 2003, WORLD UNION OF SOKES AS OUTSTANDING CONTIBUTION TO THE MARTIAL ARTS, THE U.S.A. INTERNATIONAL BLACK BELT HALL OF FAME AS MARTIAL ARTS DEDICATION & INTERNATIONAL AWARD OF LEADERSHIP IN THE MARTIAL ARTS, WORLD KARATE UNION HALL OF FAME AS KUNG FU MASTER IN 2004. **WITH 12 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN CHINESE HERBOLOGY, WITH KNOWLEDGE OF ACUPUNCTURE, AND QI GONG, SIFU SETS AN EXAMPLE AS A HIGHLY RESPECTABLE PERSONA IN THE MARTIAL ART WORLD.
(SPECIAL TEACHINGS)**FOR 10 YEARS I'VE TAUGHT THE ART FOR FREE FOR ALL THOSE THAT WANTED AN ALTERNATIVE TO DRUGS AND GANG LIFE, AND HELPED DOZENS OF PEOPLE TO STOP SMOKING, DRINKING, VIOLENCE, DRUGS AND GANGS. PROMOTING HEALTH AWARENESS THROUGH PROPER EATING HABITS, AND QI GONG. A VOLUNTEER IN THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA, TEACHING THE KIDS CHEN TAIJIQUAN, IN ORDER TO TEACH THEM RELAXING TECHNIQUES.**IN 2004 BEGAN PROJECT MIND RELAXATION AND CONTROL, WHERE RELAXATION TECHNIQUES AND QI GONG ARE USED FOR MENTALLY ILL INDIVIDUALS(BIPOLAR, SCHIZOPHRENIA, AND MULTIPLE PERSONALITY);
