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Interview with Bey Logan, part 1

Sophian Ben Djebbour / 12 月 4, 2024

Kung-Fu Kingdom! Kung-Fu Chronicles: Inside the Mind of Bey Logan Interview with renowned action Asian cinema expert and writer, Bey Logan! Bey’s lifelong passion, knowledge and continued fascination with everything related to action movies and the kung-fu genre.

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The 'Wing Chun' dance show returned to Hong Kong's

The 'Wing Chun' dance show returned to Hong Kong's Cultural Centre with an impressive display of dance, music and martial arts. Besides the performances, the troupe also shared their skills with students from local schools. Our own Sean Logan attended with Elizabeth Yang, and filed the following report:"The performance is quite slow but very effective. With most of its narrative primarily being communicated through physical theatre, the story beats can get lost if you're too focused on the action. But, overall, you're probably not watching a Wing Chun dance drama for a sweeping story. There is great production design and superb choreography from the Shenzhen team, with energetic and powerful performances from the show's leads, and especially Da Chen, who really stole the show at some points. The show is pretty interpretative and cadenced, leading to long and sometimes extremely complicated sequences, but as a whole it succeeds in most areas. The action is amazing, with powerful stage blocking, especially during Ip Man's fight scene with the other kung fu grandmasters. You can really feel the varying focus and energy in their respective arts, supplemented by unique staging and an intense operatic score from the pit band. Despite slowing down at portions, it's a dynamic and acerbic show that smoothly adapts its eponymous martial art into the theatre."(The dance drama Wing Chun was written by Feng Shuangbai, chairman of the China Dancers Association, and co-directed by Han Zhen and Zhou Liya and performed by Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theatre.)Photos: 1) Wing Chun and other Chinese styles dance across the stage. 2) Sean and Elizabeth take their seats. 3) The stage is set. 4) Some imagery is reminiscent of Wong Kar-wai's epic film 'The Grandmaster'. 5) Beauty moves to the beat. 6) The performance makes use of cutting-edge staging effects. 7) The leads demonstrate their skills for local school children. 8) Sean outside the Cultural Centre theatre, in front of the show's impressive poster. 9) The show provides a great teaching experience for some lucky Hong Kong kids! 10) If only school was like this every day!#kungfu #wingchun #vingtsun #martialarts

Legacies of the Dragon: A remembrance of Bruce Lee

Thoughts on the passing of the great Keith Kernspe

Thoughts on the passing of the great Keith Kernspecht Sifu (by Bey Logan)"The ability to die, to slough off one’s skin like a snake, to commit oneself to incessant self-transformation is what leads the way to immortality.” Herman Hesse, 'Steppenwolf'.I met the legendary Keith Kernspecht only twice but knew of him for all my adult life. I was in my early 20s when I took over the editorship of a British martial arts magazine. It was during my tenure there that I heard of this bearded, muscular German Wing Tsun maestro named Keith Kernspecht, a man who looked equal parts professor and powerlifter, a figure with a veritable army of WT fighting followers and his very own kung fu castle in Wiesenbach...We did not meet in person until years later, when I was the MC for a birthday party held for Kernspecht Sifu's own teacher, Grandmaster Leung Ting. It was a busy evening, but Master Keith took the time to seek me out to commend my facility in English and Cantonese. Years later still, my dear friend, the redoubtable Alex Richter Sifu, held his annual Hong Kong kung fu tour, and Keith Kernspecht Sifu graced us with his presence. Finally, we got the chance to talk at length about life, kung fu, literature, history, physical exercise and more. Was there any subject under the sun in which Professor Kernspecht was not at least conversant? Kernspecht Sifu first came into contact with Wing Tsun in the early 1970s. In 1975, on the advice of his Wing Chun master Joseph Cheng, another old friend of mine, Keith invited the famed Grandmaster Leung Ting to Germany and became 'Father of WingTsun in Europe'. In a storied life, Kernspecht founded a WingTsun Academy at Langenzell Castle, become a professor for sports science at the National Sports Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria, constantly refined his own impressive physique through diet and exercise... It seems impossible that this martial arts immortal has moved on to the next plane. The lesson he leaves us is to learn more and always be DOING. I will always treasure the moment when Keith stopped in the Martial Club doorway and said to me "You're such a fun guy! I wish I met you earlier!" Likewise, Sifu...#wingtsun

Bey's Book Club: It was a coals to Newcastle momen

Bey's Book Club: It was a coals to Newcastle moment. I was browsing in one of my favourite LA bookstores, Small World in Venice, and saw a cover with the familiar Hong Kong skyline, and its statue of Bruce Lee. The volume is 'Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee' by Daryl Joji Maeda. Though it offers only minimal information new to a die-hard Little Dragon fan, Maeda offers a fresh overview of Lee's life, threaded with analysis of his place within the world's wider cultural fabric.Maeda's concise, clear writing style offer a fine 'beginner's guide' to Bruce Lee's life and career, and, as befits a scholar of his standing, he has evidently done his homework. One downside is the occasional head-spinning academic analysis of Bruce Lee. I mean, which of us HASN'T watched 'Fist of Fury' and found ourselves thinking, as the allegedly world-renowned Vijay Prashad does, that Lee is "a polycultural figure who demolished the high walls of parochialism and ethnonationalism through a potent dialect of cultural presence..." Throughout, Maeda quotes, reverently, these revered authorities, but their dusty ramblings do not succeed in detracting from the pace of the narrative. Lee completists will want the book for their library, and more general readers will appreciate it as an introductory text to Little Dragonography.Photo guide: 1) The Lee statue on the cover. It's actually owned by the Hong Kong Bruce Lee Club, who try to charge a heavy fee for its use in films and documentaries! 2) A young Bruce Lee as a Hong Kong child actor. 3/4) The young and dashing Bruce Lee. What a shame he didn't stay to make movies in Hong Kong rather than wasting ten film-making years in the US! 5) Lee on the Thai location of his breakthrough film 'The Big Boss'. 6) Bruce in arguably his best film, 'Fist of Fury'. 7) The Little Dragon with his signature weapon, the nunchaku, in his directorial debut, 'The Way of the Dragon'. 8) Lee as 'Lee' in 'Enter the Dragon', the film that made him a superstar, but, sadly, after his passing. 9) Artwork of Bruce in his unfinished epic 'Game of Death'. 10) Lee in costume for one of the period action dramas he did not live to make. #brucelee

Mak Che-kong Sifu continues his epic 'Train with t

Mak Che-kong Sifu continues his epic 'Train with the Master' Zoom webinar series with the third part of his Tiger Crane/Fu Hok Seurng Ying/虎鶴雙形拳.As ever, the webinar is at 4pm (Hong Kong time) and FREE!https://martialclub.net/product/hkmf11-2024-3/Don't miss this chance to learn the finer points of this key Hung Gar form! Tiger and Crane has long been celebrated in various forms of media.Notes/photo guide: 1) The poster for this week's webinar (Thank you EY!). 2/3) The first media representation of the form was in the book published in Hong Kong by the great Grandmaster Lam Sai-wing/林世榮. It was first printed in 1957. Lam Si-gung posed for the photos which were then adapted into what are now a classic series of line drawings. 4) Bruce Lee's main rival as king of kung fu, Jimmy Wang Yu/王羽, was best-known for fighting with a sword (usually with one arm) and for his basic bash-'em-up martial arts moves. When Wang Yu decided to do a traditional kung fu movie in Taiwan, he turned to the classic 'Tiger & Crane Fist/虎鶴雙形'. 5) Real-life Hung Gar maestro Lau Kar-leung/Liu Chia-liang/劉家良 brought Fu Hok to the screen like no other in his films at Shaw Brothers, including 'Executioners from Shaolin/洪熙官'. The film focusses on Hung Hay-kwoon/洪熙官, the legendary founder of Hung Gar, played by kung fu movie star Chan Kwoon-tai/陳觀泰, and further defined how Tiger and Crane would look on screen. 6) Before he broke onto the scene with kung fu comedy, action ace Jackie Chan/成龍 shot a string of traditional martial arts movies in Taiwan. Though the films themselves are generally ill-regarded, Jackie did a fine job showing off the traditional kung fu fighting forms. In 'Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin/蛇鶴八步' he combines those two 'animal' fists. 7/8) Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' films are the greatest modern day homage to classic kung fu cinema. In the second of the films, star Uma Thurman demonstrates the Tiger and Crane form with her teacher Pai Mei, played by former Shaw Bros star, and real-life Hung Gar expert, Gordon Liu/劉家輝. 9) For most kids today, the Tiger form is a move from 'Kung Fu Panda'! 10) Lam Sai-wing's image is now found on t-shirts!#kungfu #hunggar

[Mak Sifu Shows the Ending of the Hang Je Pang] #

[Mak Sifu Shows the Ending of the Hang Je Pang]#kungfuworld #chinesemartialarts #hunggar #hongkongculture #hkig #kwaifong

[Mak Sifu Giving a Lesson on Short Power] #kungfu

[Mak Sifu Giving a Lesson on Short Power]#kungfuworld #chinesemartialarts #hunggar #kwaifong #hongkongculture #hkig

Cathay Pugilistic: Hong Kong's airline promotes ku

Cathay Pugilistic: Hong Kong's airline promotes kung fu culture. (by Bey Logan)I've been spending many hours on Cathay flights lately and was impressed to see that their locally produced safety video includes a sequence depicting traditional Chinese kung fu. The short film uses various aspects of Hong Kong culture to share the various in-flight protocols. The kung fu section depicts a Wing Chun class being held on a Wanchai rooftop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iz4tSWM8RICreated in partnership with the Hong Kong Tourism Board and progressively rolled out across our aircraft since August, the video encapsulates Hong Kong’s dynamism by matching familiar sights with essential safety protocols.Given how many people fly the friendly skies on our local airline, this kung fu footage is a fine advertisement for one of the great Chinese arts forms still practiced and propagated in the city. And, of course, anyone landing in Hong Kong and seeking real deal kung fu training, please head directly from the Kowloon Airport Express to the Kwai Fong Martial Club!Call 852 9374 969 or email hkmartialclub@gmail.com or PM us here for further information.We're located at Unit C, 10th floor, Block B, Marvel Industrial Building, No 17-23, Kwai Fung Crescent, Kwai Chung, New Territories (Exit C, Kwai Fong MTR)We even have a rooftop available for training, as depicted in the in-flight safety video!This not Cathay's first foray into Chinese martial artistry. Several years ago, they promoted the fact that their flight attendants were training in Wing Chun in order to tackle unruly passengers. The style's close range combat techniques were deemed especially effective for plane-bound confrontations! They were trained by the rather familiarly named 'Donald Mak', though this is a Wing Chun instructor, not our own beloved Mak Sifu!Local hero Jackie Chan was also brought in to promote the kung fu campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn2cbdG88XYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocbu83VnWp8Cathay also promoted the films of Chan's predecessor as Hong Kong action king, Bruce Lee, when they played his films as in-flight movies. #kungfu #wingchun #cathaypacific

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