SHAOLIN DO........Faux Kung Fu of Sin Kwang The
As a traditional stylist of Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut kung fu who has studied the system for more than 30 years now I am coming to understand why my elders didn't want their kung fu to leave the confines of San Francisco's Chinatown. In the beginning of my kung fu career I loved it so much that I was the schools primary recruiter. I didn't understand anything that came before my arrival or I would still keep our system hidden within the shadows of the Chinese community. They warned me, confronted me, and even chastised me because I was unintentionally breaking the norm of that time. I just didn't view the world as they viewed it, and that was my bad. I had to learn the hard way.
In authentic Chinese Martial Arts I grew up believing in honor and in our community no one stole kung fu from other styles. Developing your system to include newer forms is one thing, it was basically unheard of to outright steal another style's material. Much of that can be attributed to the repercussions which could have grave consequences.
To make a long story short, I came across a video of a Shaolin Five Animal form on youtube. The person performing this form is known today as "Jake Mace" aka Jacob Rydberg. His video was an attempt at instruction of this form. Once he began his form I KNEW IMMEDIATELY what form he was trying to teach because it EXCLUSIVELY belonged to the Hung Sing Kwoon which is America's very first kung fu school "OFFICIALLY" founded in 1939 by Professor Lau Bun.
So, I politely sent Jake Mace - who I had no idea was hiding behind the Mace surname to disguise his true name of Jacob Ryberg - a message asking him where he learned this form. He replied that he learned it from the Shaolin Do school when he was a student there. Then I asked him where did his teacher learn it from because I knew no one else had this specific form. His response was that he learned it in China. I called his bluff and he purposely failed to reply to me when I asked him to tell me the names of China teachers that taught this form. His reluctance to answer that question pissed me off because I can't stand dishonest people.
I had never dealt with dirty classless dishonest people Jake before so i did a little searching. Prior to this experience I had no idea what a Shaolin Do was but found out more than i cared to know. I came to learn that the founder of Shaolin Do was a man named Sin Kwang The' and that Jake was involved with a court case against him. In the proceedings of that case it turns out that Sin Kwang The admitted to making up most of the material he was teaching. He gave it a false history with false masters including one who was nothing more than a Circus Attraction. In other words, Sin Kwang The was pretending to be a true master of kung fu. In the court proceedings he is quoted as saying "In connection with my work, I developed my own system of Shaolin which is known as Shaolin Do".
Furthermore, Sin Kwang The also states in the court proceedings " The exercises and movements and the order they are to be performed was specifically selected by me". What he is saying is basically he takes bits and pieces from other forms and arranges them to his liking then claims it is an authentic shaolin form. Unbeknownst to his unsuspecting students, he's been playing them for the money.
Jake Mace learned from one of Sin Kwang The's students by the name of Soard who got himself charged with sexual assault on some of his students (http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_13423591) including jakes girl friend at the time. He was then passed on the Garry Mullins and someone else. Jake Mace is such a disrespectful, untrustworthy, THIEF that learned well from his teachers. what do i mean? Well, even after begging to be allowed to teach Sin Kwang The's made up system of Shaolin Do and later had it copy written, JAKE defied him and basically told him "FUCK YOU, I'M STEALING YOUR MATERIAL AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP ME". If you don't believe ME (the Author) do a google search on Sin Kwang The vs Jacob Rydberg and you will see for yourself.
Jake Mace also admittedly watched a IP MAN movie then came home, bought a wing chun wooden dummy, and now swears he is a teacher of Wing Chun. He continues to teach Shaolin Do's fake version of Hung Gar and other stolen styles. Jake the FAKE is a PRIME EXAMPLE of what kind of teacher you should NEVER BE. Frauds like this NEED to be dealt with in a severe fashion.
SO TO GET BACK TO ME POINT FOR THIS ARTICLE: Let me make this extremely clear. The Shaolin Five Animal form that Jake Mace and SHAOLIN DO is incorrectly teaching is a CHEAP knock off of the Shaolin Five Animal form LEGITIMATELY taught at the American Hung Sing Kwoon head quartered in San Francisco under its current leader, GM Dino Salvatera. As I already explain early on, this specific form is COMPLETELY EXCLUSIVE to the Hung Sing Kwoon and there are absolutely NO other hand forms in existence LEGITIMATELY similar to this one anywhere on the face of this planet.
SIN KWANG THE copied the techniques of the Shaolin Five Animal form of the Hung Sing Kwoon and made some modifications with the intention of hiding the truth. Even with his modifications it is clear that he patterned his version of the form based off of our form. In the Hung Sing Kwoon we never used the color poetry that GM Doc Fai Wong used in his book, but Jake the FAKE Mace uses the terminology without the knowledge that it was most likely invented by GM Doc Fai Wong.
This specific Shaolin Five Animal form is an especially rare hand form because it is a Northern Five Animal form containing the southern Five Animal hands. It was rare in 1900 and remains as such in 2016. There is absolutely NO Shaolin Five Animal forms on the face of this Earth in existence then or now that "LEGITIMATELY" looks anywhere even remotely similar to this hand form. I openly challenge anyone anywhere to produce a legitimate chinese teacher with a legitimate lineage that has been around longer than the American Hung Sing Kwoon. I have made this challenge many times before and till this day NO ONE and I mean NO ONE has come up with anything to dispute me.
In the past I have seen students online try to defend the Shaolin Do name even after learning that much of what they trained in was made up by Sin Kwang The. Shaolin Do is ran like a cult and many of the students refuse to believe the truth. On youtube so many authentic students and teachers have tried to inform the world that Jake the Fake Mace and Sin Kwang The were frauds. When asked who his teachers were Jake refuses to answer and makes a wild claim that he's learned martial arts longer than he really has. His level of arrogance is astounding as he claims to do things perfectly even tho he was never properly taught the right way. He is ashamed to admit that he is a product of David Soard, Mullins and Grooms. Why? who cares, really.
Lately, I have noticed someone who is a prime rider of Jakes bandwagon who has a youtube channel by the name of MrVidLuv is trying to stir shit up by claiming the Hung Sing Kwoon is lying about the Shaolin Five Animal Form. But when asked to provide his PROOF we're met with dead air. silence. nothing. Evidence of his silliness is found in his latest comments where he makes absolutely NO SENSE. Here, read for yourself: I'm so sick of people and their lies. There are several styles of Hung
Gar which is actually an offshoot of Shaolin. There people who claim
they're the only ones who can teach it or own the lineage lie to
everyone.Want proof? I looked up a Hung Gar documentary on YouTube. They
go straight to China, the origin, in the Hung family village and the
REAL truth is told. In it they explain that one day they were training
in public and someone asked what style it was and the guys grandfather
said "Hung Gar"-NOT Hung Sing or Kuen or anything else. He goes on to
explain that the term Hung "Sing" was used when his grandfather had a
school in his youth, in China, long ago. He was very explicit in this.
So that ends these people's claims.There are also DVDs on the style and
that particular form too. There's a few VCDs straight from China as
well. So to say "only we own it" is just childish nonsense. Plus, I heard
the real reason these people at the Hung Sing school are mad is because
Shaolin knows what they consider their highest form. Get over it
already!The documentary then goes on to say there's controversy as to
whether it's even a real martial art or a spin off from Chinese
folklore! Many practitioners are in disagreance about THAT. As for Thé
making up his entire Shaolin system-NO. I read the deposition unlike all
these lazy idiots who are nothing but knee jerk trash talkers. GM Thé
admits to making up 30 forms. That's pretty remarkable when you think
about it.So enough already, go cry somewhere else because no one wants
to hear this nonsense anymore.
In the paragraph above I highlighted the areas that need special attention. First, I have no Idea why this IDIOT is trying to link Hung Sing with Hung Gar. One is a school, the other is a style. What the literal EFF!!! Somehow that sucka thinks because he doesn't know the difference ends the argument that Shaolin Do ripped off the Hung Sing Kwoon for its Shaolin Five Animal form. I don't know what this idiotic fool is trying to say.
2ndly, Shaolin Do students and teachers seem to be very adept with having many many VCD's and Youtube video's to steal from and claim as their own.
3rdly, SHAOLIN DO is a system created by Sin Kwang The who like i stated above "" The exercises and movements and the order they are to be performed was specifically selected by me". why would anyone teach what was specifically selected instead of teaching students what was allegedly taught to him? was he keeping the real kung fu for himself and only teaching what he felt like teaching to unsuspecting students who had no idea whether or not he was fooling them?
To conclude, Sin Kwang The is a fraud who trained people to perpetuate his fraudulism. Jake Mace is a product of Sin Kwang The 's cult. Only the mentally challenged are unable to see the difference between real kung fu and what Sin Kwang The and Jake Mace is putting out there to the public. Jake lies about his teachers, his background, what styles he learned, and even his own surname. How Jake has been able to attract so many followers is a mind boggler. His fake fu is weak and will end up getting someone injured if they tried to use his "DEADLY TECHNIQUES".
Jake, you should never take about Martial Virtue while being a snake oil salesman. You cannot comment on Martial Virtue if you don't possess any. You Fraud!!!!
