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A site honoring the teachings of Kuo Lien Ying and the magical time that we were able to learn from Si Fu |
Portsmouth Square 1965-1985
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Randy Fung's Biography
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I was born in the year of the dog, 1946 in San Francisco. My family imigrated to this country in the 1890’s and I am forth generation Chinese American. My family moved down to San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco when I was four. In my younger days I took Kenpo when I was fourteen and won my schools League championship in my senior year. You can read more about my early days, here: I first met Kuo Lien Ying in 1967 and studied with him until his passing. In the early years I studied with him daily, but later on, because of distance went weekly. I met my wife, Linda in 1969 and we have been married for 38 years. We have one son. From 1973 to 1974 my wife and I lived in a Zen community. We would take the zen teachers kids to study with Sifu Kuo’s main disciple, Bing Gong. We studied with Bing for a while, and one day I asked Bing if I could teach. He asked Sifu Kuo, and Si Fu requested that I go back and study with him directly.So we had to drive from Sonoma county down to Portsmouth square for every weekend over a couple of years time. |
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In 1975 he granted permission for me to teach his style. I started my classes in Sonoma county in 1975 and taught until 1991. I did not have a formal studio, we just workout in school yards and rooms you could rent. I taught martial arts classes at Sonoma State in 1978 and 1979 filling in for Sifu James Wong of a Hung Gar school. 1979, I was the first student of Kuo to enter an International Martial arts competition. It was held in Oakland, CA and I took a first place in mens black belt forms. You can read about it here. Around 1980, I studied with James DeMille who was a student of Bruce Lee in the Seattle group with Ed Hart and Jessie Glover. |
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Randy Fung links
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