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 Great grandmaster, Daniel Kane Pai’s grandfather, Po Fong, left his home near Singapore and traveled to Hawaii in the early 1920s with the dream of giving his family a better life. Po Fong later adopted the Hawaiian name, Po Pai.
Kane Pai, the son of Po Pai, was one of six children. He had a son, Daniel Kane Pai, born in Kamuela, Hi. Sijo Po Pai taught his grandson the family martial art style, which contained mainly elements of the crane and dragon movements, as well as other animal styles found within the traditional southern shaolin systems. His grandmother was a master of the white crane system and his father was a judo/jiu-jitsu expert. During this time of training, Po Pai sent his grandson to the White Lotus Monastery, Byakurenji, on the northern coast of Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, to study kobayashi-ryu karate-do and white lotus kenpo. Young Daniel learned many lessons that prepared him for life; he also earned his black belt in kenpo.
Working with Parker
As a young man Daniel Kane Pai worked herding cattle at Parker Ranch on the “Big Island.” During this time, Daniel Pai and Ed Parker, who would become a famous kenpo grandmaster, worked and trained together. Pai studied the art of judo/jiu-jitsu and massage with professor Osakis and Richard Takamora. He was also involved with the Hawaiian Kenpo Association. During these growing times Pai began fusing together his vast and diverse martial arts knowledge. This was the beginning of the foundation for today’s awesome style called Pai lum tao.
In 1951, Daniel Kane Pai joined the U. S. Army and was stationed in California. He opened his first martial arts school at the back of his Sunset Boulevard home in Los Angeles just before leaving to fight in the Korean War. He re-enlisted in 1953, where he continued his service in Army Intelligence. He retired from active duty in December 1955. During his service to his country, Daniel Kane Pai was awarded four Bronze Stars, a Korean Service Medal, a U. N. Service Medal and the National Defense Medal.
Dr. Daniel Pai graduated from the Chicago Medical College, Calcutta, India, June 29, 1960, with a degree in Homeopathic Medicine. He incorporated his knowledge of herbs and natural medicine into the higher-ranking curriculum of Pai lum tao. Dr. Pai believed that a sifu or sigung should first understand how to heal and treat people before knowing how to destroy them.
Pai Lum Comes Home
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Dr. Pai opened schools throughout the United States. He trained instructors in Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Connecticut, Colorado, California, Canada and Hawaii. During the mid-1970s, Dr. Pai moved to Daytona Beach, Fla., where he opened the Pai Lum Martial Arts National Headquarters. This era peaked with 50-plus pai lum and fire dragon schools operating in North America. Over the next two decades some of these students, who trained mostly in kenpo, stayed close to Dr. Pai as he trained new students in kung-fu and tai chi disciplines. Daniel Kane Pai’s martial arts system became known as the white dragon style.
In the early 1970s, Glenn C. Wilson was sent to meet the world-renowned kung-fu grandmaster from Hawaii, Daniel Kane Pai. Their friendship was instantaneous and grandmaster Pai was impressed with the young sifu’s level of skills and the awesome style he taught.
Wilson trained in and taught the virtues of gong yuen chuan fa, which has its foundation in the four systems of: shorinji kenpo, lo han—Buddhist monk boxing, plum flower system and the five animal school. This combination would prove to be an unbeatable combination of fighting, empty-hand forms and weaponry.
In 1974 grandmaster Pai accepted Wilson as a student. He maintained the rank he held in gong yuen chuan fa and with the Kou Shu Organization in Taiwan, which was the third highest level. This began a historical blend of two great systems—white dragon and the way of the hard and soft fist.
A New Star
Wilson began a lifelong endeavor to study the disciplines of bok leen pai, pai lum tao, pai yung tai chi, quan yin chi kung and chin kon pai meditation. At Dr. Pai’s request Wilson taught the traditional lohan and plum flower forms to the rest of the Pai lum families.
In 1979, Wilson was elevated to the prestigious rank of sigung (master) by Dr. Pai and the Kou Shu Federation of Taiwan. In 1992, Pai began organizing his Pai lum schools with several associated systems under an umbrella organization. Wilson was directed to protect and to preserve the curriculum.
In 1993, while visiting the Dominican Republic Dr. Daniel Kane Pai lost his ongoing battle with diabetes. Dr. Pai was laid to rest with full military honors at the Hawaiian National Cemetery. Under Wilson’s direction, a board of directors was appointed to protect and preserve the curriculum of the Pai Lum style. Known today as the White Dragon Warrior Society Inc., this Society is devoted to making sure no one forgets the contribution Dr. Pai made to martial arts. As head of his own family as dictated by Dr. Pai, Wilson now wears the title si tai gung or “grandmaster of his own family.”
Wilson has become the guiding force behind one of the most potent and effective martial arts systems available. Within the Pai lum tai martial arts system is a series of cutting punches and kicks, coupled with traditional animal movements and san shou training.
Sigung Jimmy Wilson and sitaigung Glenn Wilson assume on-guard positions.
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Jimmy attacks with a sun fist while Glenn executes a trap and tiger�s mouth strike to the throat.
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Glenn maintains the grab while striking with a short wing to the jaw.
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Glenn performs a cross-wing throw.
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