This coming year, July 20, 2011, I will have been teaching 35 years and in the following year I will have been training martial arts 50 years!!! Wow… I find it hard to believe how much time has gone by … and so quickly!!!
Mr Suh opened our school in the middle 60’s. He taught ten years … and added to my 35, we’ve been offering our skills to the community for 45 years (combined)! Amazing how it all flies by.
This is a symbol for us that, while we feel we have time, time itself is something to be cherished and respected — and made use of. As they say, “time doesn’t stand still”. It doesn’t replenish. It is a perishable without any way in the Universe to replace it! So, make incredible use of it.
Hey, I think this gives good cause for celebration next summer! Watch for the info on our Facebook page. It will show up, I’m sure, sometime in April regarding a huge celebration of such a fine martial art in Burbank!
thank you all,
PGMB
A huge milestone…can’t wait to celebrate it.
Me too!!! Very exciting and great fun! Maybe we should play something that night? 🙂
PGMSuh 60+years of training?
PGMB 50 yrs
GMM 25 yrs
MJohn 24 yrs
MSteve 17 yrs
MGrant 17 yrs
MMicki 14 yrs
MJosh 14 yrs
MMatt 14 yrs
Riley 13 yrs
Yumi 10 yrs
Adam 8 yrs
Mark 8 yrs
Kristen 8 yrs
Tim 8 yrs
Vinay 8 yrs
Andrew 7 yrs
Murray 7 yrs
Total = 312 years, and that’s just 18 people! Obviously a few of them are the keys to our system, but I think (and i say this with total respect to the Grand Masters,) one thing we have all learned in that time that seemed to go by so quickly, is how little we really know and how much is still left to learn. Its amazing!
P.S. April marks my 9th year in this school, I think its a great time for a celebration! Ha!
Such a wonderful history! And you are so right sir, time shouldn’t be wasted. Lookin forward to training for the rest of my life!
How every exciting! I have something wonderful to look forward to next year.
You started teaching two days shy of my two month birthday. I think of the 34 years it’s taken me to learn what I know of life in general and you have that much time just teaching martial arts! My WHOLE LIFETIME! What an amazing accomplishment. Congratulations and my most sincere thanks for the 34 years spent improving hundreds and hundreds of lives, including my own, in every possible way.
Awesome! Congratulations. 9 Years is a long time and getting longer! See ya at 20! Lets celebrate us all!
Me too!
It’s going to be a great time!
Thanks so much Micki … lets do another 34! Now, how old would I be??? hmmmm
I’m in this for life. I’ll sign with blood if I need to…
Me too. Glad to see you’re fully committed … there truly is a difference between “doing something” and “being something”. Kung Fu isn’t something we do; it’s something we are. That’s a lifetime way. Celebration soooooonn.
A lifetime begins with the first breath of life. And we all are born into this Way. Kung Fu has been my life. I was just waiting for the right place to be to nurture who I am. And this Temple is the right place for me.
Guess i better start planning now! 🙂
love your comment about time being “perishable” what a way to look at it!
Grand Master Baird; Thank you so much for your dedication and passion for the art of Kung Fu. I am planning to represent Wisconsin at your next celebration. There is no other place I’d rather be!
Sounds great, Bill. You’re always welcome! What else would we do? (that’s this worthwhile?) pgmb