Post by Stephen on Feb 12, 2006 3:26:35 GMT -5
My Family San Soo Lessons
AH-SOO (fighting hands)
Ah-Soo coordinates the hands by teaching all levels of students how to punch in combinations with extreme power and accuracy. It also teaches students how to focus, build, enhance and use Chi, an internal force, that when harnessed can produce devastating results on an opponent. With out this aspect on the Art, a person can never expect to have the abilities of a true master. The punching combinations in Ah-Soo are continuous, fast and furious. The various combinations in 45 Ah-Soo lessons are interchangeable with each other and can be expanded to make up 12,000 different punching combinations, making this a must for all serious students of the Art.
FUT-GA (the way of the Monk)
Fut-Ga are the lessons used by the Monks themselves. Fut-ga lessons are offensive and aggressive. They coordinate the arms and hands to work as one with the legs and feet, giving the student such tools as balance and timing. This training puts much more power into the hands of its students and offers many varieties of movement never before imagined. Fut-Ga lessons are very easy to learn, but make no mistake, these lessons are fierce and will neutralize an opponent immediately. Learn how to launch multiple attacks using punches and kicks at the same time. Practitioners should use these lessons wisely.
CHOY-LI-HO (the families of San Soo)
Choy-Li-Ho teaches the utilization of strong leverages, pressure points, joint locks, throws, flips, hyper extension of nerves, muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as many varieties of bone breaking techniques, including but not limited to arms, legs, back and neck. Power is not a major concern when practicing leverages but this training combined with the Ah-soo and Fut-Ga training gives a fighter a very well rounded base from which to grow.
TOP-GA (dap-ga)
Top-ga brings all of your training to one focal point. Top-ga refines the student by putting everything into prospective. Top-Ga takes all the skills and movements previously learned, including powerful punches, kicks and leverages, and combines them all into easy to learn and easy to understand lessons. These lessons are priceless to all serious students and are extremely impressive and dangerous. Taught in a true combat oriented format, these lessons should not ever be underestimated.
NUMPI (lessons of the masters)
Numpi lessons are the finest hand to hand combat lessons ever devised by man. This literally brings you to the pinnacle of your training. You will not find any lessons in any Art that are more sophisticated than these. Numpi teaches how to use an opponents power against himself. Learn how to cut in at angles and how to utilize "economy of motion" for speed and accuracy. These continuous circular attacking methods are second to none and will make whatever movement your opponent tries to use against you fail.
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"BUILDING THE COMPLETE FIGHTER"
Many people do not know this but Jimmy Woo and Frank Woolsey established a working business partnership back in the early 60's. Jimmy ran the established studio in El Monte, Ca. and Frank opened a new studio in Downey, Ca. The training that Jimmy Woo sanctioned and Frank Woolsey taught in the Downey school was how I began my training. I was there for six years before I transferred to Jimmy's school in El Monte.
Training in the Woolsey school was not haphazard. Lessons were not just randomly handed out. There were lesson plans laid out by Jimmy Woo and taught by Frank Woolsey. The lessons were taught in categories. Each lesson in each category had a name and number assigned to it. The names of the categories are Ah-Soo, Fut-Ga, Choy-Li-Ho, Top-ga and Numpi. Learning one of these lessons gave you the skills and coordination you needed to learn another lesson further down the line.
Life in the old Woolsey school was rough to say the least. Pain was an everyday experience and injury was always just another punch away. Discipline was never a problem. If you didn't have any, you would be beaten until you either got some or quit. I was there for one reason and one reason only; I wanted to learn how to fight like the devil himself, and I wasn't going to let a little pain stop me.
AH-SOO
Each new student, including myself started on number one Ah-Soo. Ah-Soo, roughly translated means "fighting hands". These lessons coordinate the hands, builds power and begins the "focus of the Chi". Simply put, Ah-Soo gives a man a great ability to punch with single action or multiple combinations of punches. Powerful blocks and stances are also secured. After practicing these lessons for between six months to a year, a student will become very powerful and can accurately and decisively hit an aggressive moving target. Your hands are now coordinated and it's time to begin Fut-Ga training.
FUT-GA
Fut-Ga, roughly translated means "the way of the monk". The function of these lessons was to effectively coordinate your hands to work with your feet. Fut-Ga, unlike the defensive Ah-Soo lessons, are offensive and require you to approach your opponent from any one of eight different angles. Completion of the Fut-Ga lessons will have doubled your effective power and the body extremities are now coordinated enough to work as a single unit. Launching multiple attacks, utilizing punches and kicks at the same time, is now not only possible but very feasible.
CHOY-LI-HO
Choy-Li-Ho (the three families of San Soo), utilizes single action punches and kicks but is very strong in leverage, pressure points, joint locks, throws, flips, hyper extension of nerves, muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as many varieties of bone breaking, including arms, legs, back and neck. Power is not a concern here as leverage in paramount in this training. When you put the Choy-Li-Ho training together with the Ah-Soo and the Fut-Ga training you are now beginning to build a complete fighter. However, there are still some important elements missing.
TOP-GA (Dap-Ga)
Even though you have learned three categories of lessons, each on their own extremely outstanding and effective, you still need something to bring them all together. Learning to throw a punch and a kick or set a leverage is useless to a student of any Art unless he is taught how to use it in a combat situation. This is where Top-Ga comes in. Top-Ga combines all the skills and movements you have previously learned and puts them all into one. These lessons are spectacular to watch when executed correctly by a professional. They are incredible and beautiful. They are powerful and fancy, but they come right to the point. They will hurt you really bad. Words can't describe these lessons. They must be seen and felt to fully understand their worth.
NUMPI (continuos circular attacking methods)
What can I say? Numpi is why you are studying the Art. Don't leave home without it. Numpi lessons are the finest hand to hand combat lessons ever devised by man. Don't let anyone or any article, book or journal tell you any different. These lessons add the elements you need to make you a great fighter. Numpi offers phenomenal powerful punching combinations that are second to none on the street or in the studio. Numpi cuts in at angles, uses your opponents power against himself, utilizes economy of motion and makes whatever aggressive movement your opponent tries to use against you incorrect. Against Numpi, it doesn't matter what your opponent does, it is wrong. Numpi is taught to be both offensive and defensive, but best of all, Numpi will work for you.
AH-SOO (fighting hands)
Ah-Soo coordinates the hands by teaching all levels of students how to punch in combinations with extreme power and accuracy. It also teaches students how to focus, build, enhance and use Chi, an internal force, that when harnessed can produce devastating results on an opponent. With out this aspect on the Art, a person can never expect to have the abilities of a true master. The punching combinations in Ah-Soo are continuous, fast and furious. The various combinations in 45 Ah-Soo lessons are interchangeable with each other and can be expanded to make up 12,000 different punching combinations, making this a must for all serious students of the Art.
FUT-GA (the way of the Monk)
Fut-Ga are the lessons used by the Monks themselves. Fut-ga lessons are offensive and aggressive. They coordinate the arms and hands to work as one with the legs and feet, giving the student such tools as balance and timing. This training puts much more power into the hands of its students and offers many varieties of movement never before imagined. Fut-Ga lessons are very easy to learn, but make no mistake, these lessons are fierce and will neutralize an opponent immediately. Learn how to launch multiple attacks using punches and kicks at the same time. Practitioners should use these lessons wisely.
CHOY-LI-HO (the families of San Soo)
Choy-Li-Ho teaches the utilization of strong leverages, pressure points, joint locks, throws, flips, hyper extension of nerves, muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as many varieties of bone breaking techniques, including but not limited to arms, legs, back and neck. Power is not a major concern when practicing leverages but this training combined with the Ah-soo and Fut-Ga training gives a fighter a very well rounded base from which to grow.
TOP-GA (dap-ga)
Top-ga brings all of your training to one focal point. Top-ga refines the student by putting everything into prospective. Top-Ga takes all the skills and movements previously learned, including powerful punches, kicks and leverages, and combines them all into easy to learn and easy to understand lessons. These lessons are priceless to all serious students and are extremely impressive and dangerous. Taught in a true combat oriented format, these lessons should not ever be underestimated.
NUMPI (lessons of the masters)
Numpi lessons are the finest hand to hand combat lessons ever devised by man. This literally brings you to the pinnacle of your training. You will not find any lessons in any Art that are more sophisticated than these. Numpi teaches how to use an opponents power against himself. Learn how to cut in at angles and how to utilize "economy of motion" for speed and accuracy. These continuous circular attacking methods are second to none and will make whatever movement your opponent tries to use against you fail.
*********************************************************
"BUILDING THE COMPLETE FIGHTER"
Many people do not know this but Jimmy Woo and Frank Woolsey established a working business partnership back in the early 60's. Jimmy ran the established studio in El Monte, Ca. and Frank opened a new studio in Downey, Ca. The training that Jimmy Woo sanctioned and Frank Woolsey taught in the Downey school was how I began my training. I was there for six years before I transferred to Jimmy's school in El Monte.
Training in the Woolsey school was not haphazard. Lessons were not just randomly handed out. There were lesson plans laid out by Jimmy Woo and taught by Frank Woolsey. The lessons were taught in categories. Each lesson in each category had a name and number assigned to it. The names of the categories are Ah-Soo, Fut-Ga, Choy-Li-Ho, Top-ga and Numpi. Learning one of these lessons gave you the skills and coordination you needed to learn another lesson further down the line.
Life in the old Woolsey school was rough to say the least. Pain was an everyday experience and injury was always just another punch away. Discipline was never a problem. If you didn't have any, you would be beaten until you either got some or quit. I was there for one reason and one reason only; I wanted to learn how to fight like the devil himself, and I wasn't going to let a little pain stop me.
AH-SOO
Each new student, including myself started on number one Ah-Soo. Ah-Soo, roughly translated means "fighting hands". These lessons coordinate the hands, builds power and begins the "focus of the Chi". Simply put, Ah-Soo gives a man a great ability to punch with single action or multiple combinations of punches. Powerful blocks and stances are also secured. After practicing these lessons for between six months to a year, a student will become very powerful and can accurately and decisively hit an aggressive moving target. Your hands are now coordinated and it's time to begin Fut-Ga training.
FUT-GA
Fut-Ga, roughly translated means "the way of the monk". The function of these lessons was to effectively coordinate your hands to work with your feet. Fut-Ga, unlike the defensive Ah-Soo lessons, are offensive and require you to approach your opponent from any one of eight different angles. Completion of the Fut-Ga lessons will have doubled your effective power and the body extremities are now coordinated enough to work as a single unit. Launching multiple attacks, utilizing punches and kicks at the same time, is now not only possible but very feasible.
CHOY-LI-HO
Choy-Li-Ho (the three families of San Soo), utilizes single action punches and kicks but is very strong in leverage, pressure points, joint locks, throws, flips, hyper extension of nerves, muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as many varieties of bone breaking, including arms, legs, back and neck. Power is not a concern here as leverage in paramount in this training. When you put the Choy-Li-Ho training together with the Ah-Soo and the Fut-Ga training you are now beginning to build a complete fighter. However, there are still some important elements missing.
TOP-GA (Dap-Ga)
Even though you have learned three categories of lessons, each on their own extremely outstanding and effective, you still need something to bring them all together. Learning to throw a punch and a kick or set a leverage is useless to a student of any Art unless he is taught how to use it in a combat situation. This is where Top-Ga comes in. Top-Ga combines all the skills and movements you have previously learned and puts them all into one. These lessons are spectacular to watch when executed correctly by a professional. They are incredible and beautiful. They are powerful and fancy, but they come right to the point. They will hurt you really bad. Words can't describe these lessons. They must be seen and felt to fully understand their worth.
NUMPI (continuos circular attacking methods)
What can I say? Numpi is why you are studying the Art. Don't leave home without it. Numpi lessons are the finest hand to hand combat lessons ever devised by man. Don't let anyone or any article, book or journal tell you any different. These lessons add the elements you need to make you a great fighter. Numpi offers phenomenal powerful punching combinations that are second to none on the street or in the studio. Numpi cuts in at angles, uses your opponents power against himself, utilizes economy of motion and makes whatever aggressive movement your opponent tries to use against you incorrect. Against Numpi, it doesn't matter what your opponent does, it is wrong. Numpi is taught to be both offensive and defensive, but best of all, Numpi will work for you.