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.