@savagechicken
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I started as a kid. My father wanted to toughen us up , so he insisted I that me and my brothers take a taekwondo class. We did that for around 6 months then took a boxing class for awhile. When I was 25 I was working in construction and one of my co workers was a brown belt in taekwondo and was always talking about his art. One day I asked him to spare with me and I was amazed at how effectively he was able to block my kicks and punches. I excitedly asked him to further train me and so began about a year of training in the den of my house. The training was mostly sparing and kicking the crap out each other and at the time I was very pleased with the training. My trainer John lewis was very good at what he did. Taekwondo and a form of karate. My dad, who was a veteran of many real life fights started coming over to watch our training sessions after watching several training sessions he one day told me that something was missing in my training. He told me that although my kicks were getting good, I was weak in close and needed better close range training. So I began looking for another trainer for both me and John. I got extreamly lucky. The first place I found was a place called professional martial arts witch had a style called wing chun. I had never heard of it and had no clue what it was, but the classes were on sundays and that was the only day I had in my busy schedule. This is how I met my sifu and mentor sifu randy lewis. He explained the art and that was exactly what my dad wanted me to try. After just a few classes I began to see that wing chun was far superior to anything I had done previously and i began to train vigorously. During this time I also took another martial art called wu ying dow. There I was trained to recognize 3 different fighting ranges witch I continue to use to this day , there I also met kelvin and his son damian who became my sparing partners , a couple very talented guys who over time really helped me to refine my 2nd range techniques, and sparing in general. After training with sifu randy lewis for about four years sifu ray joined, he trained very hard and had a natural talent. He quickly became the best us us all. Over the years, spent with sifu randy and christine lewis, I learned a very solid wingchun foundation. Sifu lewis and christine were very good at what they did. I also learned a lot from Sean bishop christine,and sifu ray. Both Sean and especially sifu ray helped me continously refine my hand techniques. Over the years sifu ray taught me many techniques including staff sparing. I had never seen anyone who could use a staff like sifu ray can. After years of training I became separated from the school and pretty much my life. After about a 6 year separation my daughter refound sifu ray. I was extreamly pleased and could hardly believe he was now head sifu at lightning hand. How very lucky and fortunate I was that he welcomed me back as part of the lightning hand family. And wow, I was amazed at how good he had become. I mean , I thought he was good back then, but now…. yea.. wow…Since refunding him he, and some of his students have helped me understand much about the art I dident previously know. Very advanced, super secret wing chun tech. I’m very happy he is the sifu of lightning hand! He was definitely the best of us!
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