SICHUAN PROVINCE HAKKA ARTS
MY LINEAGE
Grandmaster Doo Wai
For six generations, White Tiger Kung Fu has been passed from father to son, ending finally with Grandmaster Doo Wai, who has decided to make the art available to the public. Aside from holding the esteemed title, Grandmaster Doo Wai serves as a technical advisor on martial arts-related feature films and served as the Grand Juror of the San Diego Asian Film Festival. A Chinese historian and scholar, Grandmaster Doo Wai has been on the cover of Inside Kung Fu, Ancient Sets of Kung Fu, and Karate Kung Fu Illustrated
Shi Gung Tom Rizzo
A martial arts student since the age of six, Tom Rizzo has studied a full range of martial arts including Karate, JuiJitsu, Judo, Tae Kwon Do, Aikido, and Kempo. Tom has been teaching since 1990, and has studied with Grandmaster Doo Wai since 1991. Rizzo, a highly decorated former federal agent, was a certified defense tactics instructor for the U.S. Department of Justice, teaching federal agents to fight in hand-to-hand combat.
Sifu Dennis Wood
Dennis Wood started his martial arts training with Kempo in 1988. Four years later he began studying Bak Fu Pai under Sifu Tom Rizzo and Grandmaster Doo Wai. He has since been a closed-door disciple of the Grandmaster. Dennis is a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom where he served his time as a combat engineer. He is currently the chief Kung Fu instructor of the Westwood school and a lead member of Team White Tiger MMA.
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Sources of the 16th and 17th centuries allude to the practice of Kung Fu in and around the monasteries of Mount Emei. Which made the earliest extant reference to the Shaolin Monastery as Chinese boxing's place of origin.
Kuan Yin
Chinese Bodhisattva/ Goddess of Compassion
Guan Gong Yu Warrior God Kwan Kung
Guardian Deity
Samantabhadra AKA
Puxian Pusa.
Emei Mountains is located in Sichuan, South Eastern China and is one of the four sacred Buddhist Mountains. Today, the largest of the four sacred Mountains is home to 11 Taoist Temple dating back more than 1,600 years, with over 30 Buddhist Temples.
There are also many cave systems around the region, Which Bak Mei and four others where said to of fled, to escape being captured by the Manchurian rebels.
They hide in caves, jungles and many temples around the four sacred Mountains and all changed there identities.
