It
is interesting going through old discussions from decades ago have current
material making those discussions have more meaning.
One
of them concerned a ‘secret form’ that came from Daniel Pai through George
Dillman into Evan Pantazi.
Daniel
was an early American Chinese Arts instructor from the 1970s and1980s. He
taught his forms to his own Pai Lum students and even many karate instructors.
One of them was George Dillman (who at one time competed with one of those
forms the Pai Lum Kuen.)
Apparently
George Dillman taught them to some of his students as in Evan Pantazi. The form
in question was Kin Ken (Golden Fist)
I
saved a long discussion about this form Kin Ken (Golden Fist) back in 2005. The
discussion was around Pantazi teaching that form, and selling dvd’s of it for
$159.00 a copy.
Most
had never seen the form. There was a lot of discussion whether it originated
with Daniel Pai or St. Charles (also a student of Pai) That discussion was
endless and no clear answer what that
form was about came out of all that talk.
So
finding that old discussion sparked my interest and as almost everything can be
found on YouTube these days I trued just that.
Finding
a video on Kin Ken, an introduction to sell videos:
The
value of Kin Ken - Golden Fist Kata from Pai Lum (Dragon System)
Part
of the form can only be seen in shadows.
But I did find a video on Golden Fist and it
does resemble the other video with a shadow performance.
Golden
Fist
More
than that I do not know. But something to ponder anew.
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