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Editorial
Déjà Vu All Over Again

Twenty years ago, the kung-fu world in America was ablaze in turmoil. Grandmasters threatened grandmasters; sifu attacked sifu; and Stepford-like students were dispatched to settle scores.
No one was safe. The bigger you became or the more disciples you had, the more susceptible you were to salvos from every direction. Young squared off against old. Traditional challenged modern. Frog buttons battled three-piece suits. Chinese waged war against the gwei-los.

How bad did it get? One grandmaster’s senior student ambushed a competing grandmaster at a seminar in Germany. Two weeks later, amid threats of retaliation, armed guards were patrolling the entrance leading to a seminar.

And this wasn’t an isolated case. Chinese masters of nearly every major kung-fu system pumped their chest and clenched their fist. You would have thought they were Miyagi against Kreese; Cobra Kai against white crane. It’s a wonder with all the deadly weapons at hand someone wasn’t seriously hurt.

Eventually cooler heads prevailed, and while no one ever suggested a group rendition of “Kumbaya,” at least they realized the more they fought, the deeper they dragged kung-fu into a pit of bitterness and divisiveness.

Now you would think that time would mellow even the hardest soul, but in the Chinese martial arts community it only makes people more resolute. Twenty years of pounding your soul into a barrel of iron pullets makes you tougher, not more sensitive.

And so it goes with the Chinese martial arts, which once again showed why it continues to lag behind the rest of the world terms of recognition and respect. At the recent Golden Gate Internationals, older local sifu refused to support the event because of their long-standing feud with one of the promoters.

And for what? Jealousy. Envy. Resentment. Pride. Ego. Not the five virtues to which we are accustomed. Sounds like a case of taking one step forward and two steps back. We can complain to Bodidharma rises about the lack of respect for Chinese martial arts. But if those within the community don’t care, why should anyone else?

--Dave Cater