Check in on Saturday will be at 8:30.  We will begin at 9:00 with the lunch break at noon served at the school.  We will continue at 1:00 and go until 4:30.   On Sunday, we are going to go from 9:00 am till 11:00 am.

I am really looking forward to this years seminar.  I think it will be the best on ever.

Last years event  was one a wonderful experience for everyone in attendance and this year will be even better.

The cost for the entire event is still just $150.00.  For those of you who are planning to attend  now is the time to save the date.  Tickets can be purchased in advance to  make sure your spot is reserved.  Just contact me at my school by phone (562 8664904) or email  me at hulsey@netwood.net me for more information.

Good accomadations can be obtained at the Bellflower Travel Inn.  They can be reached at (562) 9209556.  The address is 16400 Lakewood Blvd.  Bellflower, Ca. 90706.  The hotel is actually walking distance to my school.

I don’t want to panic anyone, but I will be 64 years old on my next birthday and I cannot guarantee that this will not be the last seminar I can or will hold.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn some wonderful kung fu san soo techniques from Master Bill Hulsey and to network with some of the finest san soo students and teachers from around the nation.

Act now and reserve your spot today.  I will be looking forward to seeing you old students again and to meeting you new students as well.

The whole idea in a fight is to come out the winner. For that to happen, the other guy has to lose, pure and simple. And the best way to insure that he loses is to never give him a chance to win in the first place. Whenever possible, strike first, and hit a target that will take your opponent out of the fight, such as the eyes, throat, or groin. This may not seem very sporting, but real fighting isn’t a sport, and there are no second place winners.

We have been given the ultimate in hand¬-to-hand combat fighting technique and method – Kung Fu San Soo. The power generated by proper shoulder turn is incredible. Combined with a punching combination that sets your opponent up for each subsequent and devastating blow, aimed at weak points on the body, makes this system a powerful weapon for the practictioner. But, it must be joined with a commitment on your part to inflict that pain and damage to your opponent. Without that commitment, the system is weakened. And when it is weakened by lack of commitment, it becomes a watered down version of a true fighting art. It short, it starts to become more of a sport.

And, sports don’t survive on the street.

I am not going to mention any names here.  I am already far to embarrassed for you guys to further humiliate you with the mention of your names.  You know who you are.  Everyone at my school knows who you are.  If you fit into the category or have ever done any of the following then I am talking about you.   I just wish there was a way I could give you your money back in exchange for the wisdom I have given you. Unfortunately there isn’t, so instead I am recalling your master’s degree.

I have been president of the  infamous “black sheep squadron” ever since I left Frank Woolsey’s to begin my training with the late grandmaster Jimmy H. Woo, back in 1975.    My students and I have listened to crap from green belts to studio owners ever since.  Maybe you guys don’t like the fact that I came from Franks Woolsey’s first before beginning my training with Jimmy.  Actually, I can almost  understand bad mouthing  coming from those of you in business but you Judas masters I don’t train any more, you need to keep your mouths shut.    How soon you forget. 

If you let it be known that you left my school so your new teacher could take you to the next level, then what you are really saying is that you never reached the level of master in the first place. Real masters have all ready reached what you call the next level.    A real master is one who no longer needs the aid of an instructor.  So, if this shoe fits your foot, then take off the master’s degree I gave you and get recertified from your new instructor.  You can also rip up the certificate I gave you, because for you and me it no longer has any meaning.

There are also those who came to me with the sob story of not being able to afford the training offered at my school.  When I made arrangements to allow them to study for free, what did they do?   They went out and actually paid another instructor full price while continuing to study with me as well.   I gave you first class training that could save your life for over 12 years and you put a con on me like that. What a disappointment you are.  

Later on, you had the audacity to come back into my school for another free workout.  You actually tried to convince some of my loyal students to quit my school and go to another school.  That is the most despicable thing any of my students has ever had done to me in my 35 years of teaching.  Is there anything more disrespectful than that?   Do you hate me so much, that you try to take food off my families table, or take away my daughter’s college tuition?  What were you thinking? I ask you, would you like me to go down to your work and try to convince you boss to reduce your salary by a few hundred dollars?  I don’t think so.   You think I am pissed off at you, you damn right I am. By your actions, you have disgraced yourself and dishonored me and my family.  I am recalling your master’s degree because you simply don’t deserve my signature on your certificate.  Go get recertified and trash the belt and certificate I gave you because in my eyes trash is exactly what they are. 

I am so glad to know you are now learning how to determine who could win in a real fight without ever having seen either opponent actually fight.  I guess I missed that class.  I really don’t care about your opinion or that you told one of my loyal masters that your new teacher could rip me apart!  That doesn’t hurt my feelings one bit.  Maybe he could, I don’t know, but then again, neither do you. All I can do is my best.  That is all any of us can do. I do know this though and it is guaranteed, that if anyone is unlucky enough to run into one of my flush punches, they would need a plastic surgeon to put their face back together.   All the masters I have trained have this ability.  If you don’t feel this about yourself, then don’t wear the belt I gave you and go get recertified

 I think that what you don’t understand is that when you say bad things about me, you are also talking about yourself as well.  If you learned anything at all from me, you should not be talking trash.    I have told you over and over to never under estimate your opponent.  You must treat all adversaries as your potential equal.  All masters know that this is a fundamental lesson in our art.  If you don’t believe this, then go get recertified. You are not one of my masters.

You cannot ever change the san soo DNA you have. It came from me.  I got it from Frank Woolsey and then Jimmy Woo and in that order. Sorry about that!  I do have a question for you though and do give this some real thought before you answer.  If someone came up to you and tried to break your jaw, what would you do?  Would you use the san soo you learned from me or the lessons you are learning now?  If your answer is the lessons you are learning now,  that is ok  because your new teacher is a master with great wisdom and abilities, but take off the master’s belt I gave you and get recertified from him.                                            

Know this.  I don’t care if one of my students leaves my school and seeks out another teacher.  It happens to all teachers regardless of how good they are. I left my first teacher to study with Jimmy Woo.  Just leave with dignity.  There are a handful of those who chose to leave without honor and without dignity.  For you guys, I do apologize.  I have failed you.  I failed to teach you the most important part of the art.  I do believe I taught each and every one of you how to defend yourself in the absolute worst of situations but I failed you in the building of your human character and integrity.  What do we really have in this world?  We have our character and that is what history will judge each and every one of us on.  For those few of you who are ungrateful for what I have given you, I have but one last lesson to give to you and this one is also free.  Your degrees have been recalled.  GO GET RECERTIFIED.

I will never forget the day I got my black belt from Frank Woolsey.  It wasn’t a normal day at all.  After all, this was the day I was to take my test to see just how much I had actually learned.   I was pretty nervous.  Sometimes, when Frank came up and asked me to show him even just one lesson, my mind would go completely blank.  Now I was going to have to show him everything I had learned up to now.    I got through the test just fine, even though it had taken three days and one injury.   I was pretty proud of myself.  When Frank shook my hand and congratulated me on passing the test, I felt great.  He handed me my black belt and walked away.

It hadn’t hit me yet that I was actually a fully fledged black belt in a true combat art, but I did know I was extremely proud of my accomplishment.   I was busy shaking hands with all my fellow students and then one of them said, “Hey, aren’t you going to put your new belt on?”  “Damn right I am” I said as I strolled into the locker room to put the old belt away.

I strapped on that stiff new belt, and to me it was like wearing the Congressional Medal of Honor.   As I headed toward the door I thought to myself, “now that I’ve got this thing on, I’ve got to look like a black belt.” So I stuck my chest out as far as I could get it, positioned my hips a little forward and walked onto that floor a different person, with a different attitude.

During my workout I realize just how much better I had become in just a matter of a few minutes.  I had indeed become the belt. 

I will never forget promoting one of my students to black belt many years ago.  He took his test and passed.  I congratulated him and gave him a black belt and walked away,   just like my teacher had done.  A few minutes later, I was on the floor giving out lessons and I noticed he was wearing his black belt on his shoulder and was not working out.  In fact he was leaving.  I thought this was kind of funny but didn’t give it much thought until later. 

He said, “see you all later” and walked out the door.  How strange it is that I never saw him again.  He was awarded his black belt and quit the school in the very same night.   I guess he had realized his goal of getting a black belt.  Unfortunately, he never became the belt.  He didn’t strap it on and push his chest out and he never knew what it was like to wear the black belt.  He never felt what it was like to knock someone down wearing that coveted black belt with the just gained confidence.  He never became the belt.

I can remember another guy who was just an all right brown belt but had stopped progressing for quite some time.  It took me a while to figure it out.  But, I finally did.  He had reached his full potential as a brown belt.  He wasn’t going to get any better.  I approached him and told him I wanted to test him for his black belt.  He reluctantly agreed and one week later I promoted him to black belt. 

He put it on right there and I assigned him a workout partner.  You wouldn’t believe what I saw.  His work out had improved a hundred percent.  I could hardly believe my eyes.  He had power.  He had speed and accuracy.  He looked great.  He had become the belt.  This black belt was his license to become good.  The transformation was immediate and permanent. 

When you get promoted, be proud of it.  Wear it with the confidence it deserves.  Become the belt.

We had some surprise visits from some old students.  My old friend and partner Stan Diendorf made an appearance with his kids.  It was very nice seeing him again.  Some old black belts also surprised us with a visit.  I think the most surprising of all though was Neil Savoy.  Neil signed up with me at the age of 60 years old.  He had to quit at age 74 because of a skin condition.  He was promoted  to Master of san soo a couple of years earlier.

My wife and I, on occasion, would talk about him and I have mentioned him to many of my students.  I had no idea he was still alive so it was quite a surprise to see him walk through my doors.  He is 95 years old now.  I believe he is the oldest san soo master alive today in the United States and probably in the world.  If any of you know of someone older please let me know.

It was great to see all of you who attended and I want to personally thank you for showing up.  Many of you traveled from out of state at great expense so special thanks to you all as well.  And to you Master Neil,  I hope to see you soon as well.

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I have been working on getting the 15% discount up and running on the new shopping cart but it is difficult.  For members who would like to purchase products through the web site you need to become in the store by registering on the site.  Then you need to email me and let me know you have done it.  I can then go in and add your name so you can get the discount.  I know this is a bit of a hassle but i don’t know any other way to do it and i am open to suggestions from those of you in the know. 

For those of you who are not members and want to join and get the discount you must first join the association and then email me.  I can then add your name to the membership and you can get the discount as well.

Just typing all this in makes me realize how hard and rediculous this is, but like i said i don’t know of any other way to do it.   I do apologize for all this and hope you all understand.  Of course, if you want to avoid it you can just call me at my school and order anything you want with no hassle at all.  My number is 562 866-4904.

As soon as the seminar is over i will try to get back into some blogs and Vlogs.  If any of you have any questions or request just let me know and i will try to accomadate you.

With Toylihofut you can work out for hours never doing the same thing twice. It is a wonderful workout.  You can practice kung fu principals and techniques without having to work out to the point of exhaustion unlike and in contrast to the “old style” of san soo.

 The so called “old style” really works up a sweat and you will exhaust yourself when practicing it correctly.  That being said, I still love the “old style” with a passion and will practice it until I cannot do it any more.  For those of you who don’t know, the “old style” is furious punching techniques with immense amounts of power and energy.  It utilizes powerful blocks and powerful attacks.

 Toylihofut is leverages and pressures applied without power.  It utilizes leverage but don’t get me wrong.  It will hurt you seriously.  It will tear, break and hyper extend ligaments, tendons and bones with ease.  It generally doesn’t use powerful blocks and is not concerned much with half horse stances. 

People have now tagged toylihofut  as the “new style”.  This is kind of a false rap.  It is all ancient material.   Jimmy taught it later on.   When I signed up at Frank Woolsey’s in 1968 Jimmy was already teaching the “new style.”  He no longer taught the hard core punching lessons.  Many people think this was due to a serious injury which lead to a major law suit.  It is my understanding that he beat the law suit but it cost him several thousand dollars.  This could be why he switched over from the hard core punches to the leverages.  Others believe that the books he taught from were written in 15 year teaching cycles and it was just time to switch over.  The truth is we probably will never know for sure. 

If I would have signed up at Jimmy’s instead of Franks, I would not have learned the Ahsoo,futga, toyliho, topga and numpi lessons.  I believe they would have been lost, probably forever.

  I am blessed and very fortunate to have learned them as I did.  I still teach them today as the core and foundation of this great art.  I also believe that those of you that have chosen to study with me are fortunate as well.  You are getting the old school lessons.  .   It is very rare to see these categories of lessons taught in any other school.  Many of the younger san soo teachers and students have never even heard of the old lessons.   

They teach you how to hit, bite, scratch and in general get down and nasty when you get into a fight.  I believe that if you get into a fight, you need to hit the guy.  You need to hit him so hard he is unconscious for two days.  I believe your life is on the line whenever you fight and you need to do whatever it takes to win.  And if at all possible, let’s do this while standing on our feet. 

Can you believe this?  It was a peanut butter sandwich.  A peanut butter sandwich!   I couldn’t tell if it had jelly on it or not.  I can’t tell you what a let down that was.  Or on the other hand, maybe peanut butter sandwiches are good for you.  What do I know? 

Jimmy also talked about getting and keeping in good shape.  He was always exercising.  He would be standing there talking to you with both his hands on a wall and was actually doing pushups against the wall.  He constantly was moving.

Here is what he had to say about that about keeping in shape.  When you reach the age of 35, you need to have your body in the shape that you want it to be in.  After that age it becomes very difficult for your body to produce muscle and even harder to lose weight or get into shape.  It is also not good for your body to work out to the point of exhaustion.  This is where toylihofut comes in.  (I will discuss this in greater detail tomorrow). 

Jimmy told me that if you keep your body in great shape, you would just go to sleep one day in your old age and not wake up.  You would die peacefully in your sleep.  He said that if you didn’t, however, you would linger.  You would fall ill.  You could be ill for years and you would suffer.  You could lose your memory and could lose the ability to take care of yourself.  He made it quite clear to me that this is not the road you want to go down. 

I gave it a lot of thought but tucked it into the back of my mind.  That is until February 14^th, 1999.  That is the day that Jimmy went to sleep and never woke up.  Talk about a shocker.  He did it.  He proved his point.  He died in his sleep.  If you got to go, that is the way to do it. 

Never again would I take lightly anything he had told me in the past.