Some of the instructors I have studied with or have just know had little knowledge of their lineage. They could tell me their instructors name, maybe his instructor, then name master so-in-so, then grandmaster who-ever. At this point one, two or three generations of instructors may have been skiped. After the grandmaster some could give his lineage some could not or where very unsure of styles systems etc. from this point on.
I was once told by one instuctor that it just was never disscussed, unless his instructor said " I learned this from" so-in so. It seems that in the early days of the Westerner studing in the east so things where skiped in the oral history.
Am I the only one to run into this ?
Shadow
I was once told by one instuctor that it just was never disscussed, unless his instructor said " I learned this from" so-in so. It seems that in the early days of the Westerner studing in the east so things where skiped in the oral history.
Am I the only one to run into this ?
Shadow