San da

[konghan]

I do not train in Yaw Yan but know their headquarter was in Shaw bld....
They closed the temple because of politics.
Amazing how those guys were dedicated, lived in there and trained night and days...

Yaw Yan is like filipino MTbut with many things added. It is a pure filipino art with many empty hand strikes (bolo punches) coming from Arnis.....
Emiliano Zapata was the pride of Yaw Yan, he reamained undefeated, fought in Thailand too and won several times.... I am quite sure he retired now. There are some rumors that master Nap plans to train a new team to fight in MMA, maybe UFC....

I don't know the origins of master Nap (Napoleon Fernandez), will inquire.

Were there tournaments between NCK and Yaw Yan fighters when you were in the Philippines?

Thanks.

During the early 80s there was a Yaw Yan sponsor tournament held at Pope Pius gym. 2 konghan student participated independly on their own, they perform well got into the finals but lost in the championship.

Konghan use to be like that too, we have people taking up residence at Konghan & train really hard.

[krys]

Konghan, did you hear about a Ngo Cho KUN fighter called WACO? He got arrested in Binondo on false drug charges and died in prison in the 80's.....

[konghan]

Konghan, did you hear about a Ngo Cho KUN fighter called WACO? He got arrested in Binondo on false drug charges and died in prison in the 80's.....

No, not sure, I ve heard of a hong sing man died in a hail of bullets from some corrupt cops becuase he refuse to surrender to them.

[krys]

Actually Waco was a very strong fighter.... a very strange thing happened, when he heard he would be released he got a heart attack and died in prison (so I was told).

[konghan]

This is one way to block a kick, break the knee.
This where forearm conditioning & good muscle tensioning comes into play. A weak arm will not be able to stop that kick.