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January 5th, 2005, 04:36 PM
|  | THUNDERING MANTIS  | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: sanford, maine Style(s): pai lum & tai chi Year(s): 22
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Greetings to all!!!! I am new on here and just wanted to say hello. Hope to get a chance to talk with others that have love for martial arts. Also hoping to find other Pai Lum practitioners on here as well. "may the dragon smile upon you all" |
January 5th, 2005, 05:04 PM
|  | Fear is the Mind Killer | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: MA Style(s): Long Men Jia Quan Year(s): 27
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Rep Power: 81 | | | Not sure about Maine, none that I have heard of. But I'll ask around. ALso depending on how far you are there's a Kajukempo Pai Lum school that is very reliable in NH. Drop360 is a teacher there. We'll see what we can drum up for you.
PM me when you have a few more posts.
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August 29th, 2008, 11:49 PM
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Hi, you might look up Loring Porter in Bar Harbor. He was still there as of a couple of years ago. He is a Shi Fu. |
August 30th, 2008, 11:08 AM
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August 30th, 2008, 12:54 PM
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August 31st, 2008, 11:51 PM
| | THUNDERING MANTIS | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: sanford, maine Style(s): pai lum & tai chi Year(s): 22
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Posted By: TaichiMantis 
Welcome! ...again | ” | |  thanks.. again. lol
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September 1st, 2008, 03:57 PM
| | Fear is the Mind Killer | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: MA Style(s): Long Men Jia Quan Year(s): 27
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Rep Power: 81 | | | Has he had any luck. What r you doing now?
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September 2nd, 2008, 12:06 AM
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Posted By: GuiLongUmar
Has he had any luck. What r you doing now? | ” | |
haven't really had much luck. just been teaching and training. how bout you? what's new?
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September 23rd, 2008, 12:16 AM
|  | Venerable Student | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bangor, Maine. Style(s): Bagua, Taiqi, XingYi Year(s): 26
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Welcome to Maine. Bangor and Sanford are about 2 1/2 hours from eachother, but it's good, that there is some new gong fu in the state.
Have you opened a school?
I'd be interested to know. My sifu is the founder of the "Maine Tai Chi Chuan Association", if you're teaching tai qi, let me know.
Have you aquired some local students?
The people in Maine tend to be pretty rough and self satisfied when it comes to fighting ability.
Sanford is mostly transplants and higher class people though isn't it? You might do well with a school down there if you targeted yuppies.
Who knows. Here, we have a a few big schools, universities, to keep a small interest in gong fu. |
September 23rd, 2008, 08:53 AM
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Posted By: iron_leg_dave
Welcome to Maine. Bangor and Sanford are about 2 1/2 hours from eachother, but it's good, that there is some new gong fu in the state.
Have you opened a school?
I'd be interested to know. My sifu is the founder of the "Maine Tai Chi Chuan Association", if you're teaching tai qi, let me know.
Have you aquired some local students?
The people in Maine tend to be pretty rough and self satisfied when it comes to fighting ability.
Sanford is mostly transplants and higher class people though isn't it? You might do well with a school down there if you targeted yuppies.
Who knows. Here, we have a a few big schools, universities, to keep a small interest in gong fu. | ” | |
thanks for the welcome. yes i am teaching kung fu and tai chi down here. been doing it for about 8 years. it is cool. i have a good group of students and i keep in touch with my sifu who lives in nh. we actually just had a combined testing for one of my guys and one of his. it was awesome. definitely let me know what's happening in bangor. it isn't too far from us.
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September 23rd, 2008, 10:18 AM
| | Venerable Student | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bangor, Maine. Style(s): Bagua, Taiqi, XingYi Year(s): 26
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No kidding, 8 years ago, I lived in freeport and was doing judo, I was searching diligently for some gong fu. The only gong fu we could find within an hour's drive, was the Maine Wing Chun Academy in Lewiston. I was doing hung gar with a friend of mine too, but his teacher refused to take any more students so I was almost stealing it learning from his student. It might have been that I'm American born too, I'm not sure. Anyway, that guy lived in Bath. For a year, I looked hard for gong fu. Until I noticed the background history of another martial artist included "longfist", so I tracked him down, and he was kind enough to give me his teachers phone number, who wasn't teaching but was about to start a class.
Your advertising isn't perfect i'd say ;P. Maine is quite small, population and industry-wise. It's a shame that we that do gong fu here aren't all in the know of eachother. |
September 24th, 2008, 08:27 AM
| | THUNDERING MANTIS | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: sanford, maine Style(s): pai lum & tai chi Year(s): 22
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Rep Power: 5 | |  well now we know of each other. it would be cool for a bunch of us to get together. as far as i know, i am the only gong fu teacher down here in southern maine.
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September 24th, 2008, 10:09 AM
| | Venerable Student | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bangor, Maine. Style(s): Bagua, Taiqi, XingYi Year(s): 26
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Rep Power: 1 | | | For sure, that would would great.
There are two gong fu schools south of Augusta, one in Lewiston, and one that used to be, but mat not still be in Gardner, the guy that ran it has opened and closed schools for years, never really having any success. Of course, than you have all of the non martial make-believe tai chi for old people in Portland.
I'm sure you've heard of the annual "battle of Maine", have you guys ever been?
Last edited by iron_leg_dave; September 24th, 2008 at 01:24 PM.
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