Northern Arts Kung Fu

Senior Instructors of the Eagle Claw System (Ng Wai Nung Branch), Ying Jow Pai New York City Family Gathering.), May 2011. Sifu Birkenbeul-Hesse 2nd Row, 6th from the left.

Unfortunately in the martial arts, we have many small-minded, greedy, dishonest, and narcissistic people In the positions of instructors. Oftentimes, this doesn’t rear its ugly head until these egoists get older. This becomes particularly bad when that instructor has begun to show signs of dementia-sometimes due to their bad health habits.
Advice? Give people the benefit of the doubt and try to help others, but don’t allow yourself to be abused, stolen from, lied to, manipulated by, or influenced by those same toxic people. Life is too short to have these types of people try and negatively influence and control your life. Make the most out of life!

An Eagle Claw self-defense application example from one of our system's core forms-Hong Kuen ("Walking Fist"): Block, backfist strike to head, claw off, and elbow lock/break while bucking the opponent's knee.