Kou Sze was imprisoned for killing a fellow villager. From his cell, he watched the monkeys play about. Kou Sze was a practitioner of the Great Earth style called Tei Tong. An extremely low-postured style. He noticed that the monkeys typically represent five different characteristics.
1. Lost Monkey - A monkey who got lost from the pack
2. Tall Monkey - A monkey who was tall with long arms
3. Drunk Monkey - A monkey that got of hold of alcohol and was stumbling about
4. Stone Monkey - The Alpha male of the group
5. Wood Monkey - Like a reed in the water, his patterns were unorthodox, like a reed blowing in the wind.
These five became the basis for a new artform which he called Tai Shing or Great Sage, honoring the Monkey King.
Grandmaster Michael Matsuda is the last teacher in America that carry on the traditions of Kou Sze to his students. Listed in the Tai Shing Family Tree, he has been doing the art for over 45 years.
If you would like to learn, real, not made-up forms, but real, actual, low to the ground as Kou Sze designed Monkey Kung Fu, then visit the official Tai Shing Pek Kwar webpage at Monkeykungfu.com. The entire artform is being put up on dvd.
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