General Discussion

This is Barbara… I just posted these two KFSS necklaces from my collection on our website www.sansoojournal.com One is from the IKFSSA that started after GM Woo’s passing and the other I calculate I obtained between 1984 and 1999. Ron would have brought them from his trips to El Monte for his class each Saturday. The red one is hard to photograph as it is curved on top so the gold color lettering changes and … Read more

Check out this 1965 Black Belt Magazine featuring an “old” San Soo Student. I put it on our website if someone would like to purchase it from Ron’s collection: (SOLD 9/28) This is a piece of history that few know about. The front page and inside article features Rudy TerLinden one of the first early San Soo schools ran for Jimmy H. Woo, I am not sure of the arrangement. He was a good fighter, … Read more

I posted this series in the wrong order for Ron…ooops! Now they are in the right order….Barbara The attempt to take over San Soo! Many times we hear different versions of events or outright lies, I have stood up to many attempts to take over or wrong doing in our Art and some think I am not a good guy because one of my battles was with the family. I am not going to address … Read more

Bernie’s San Soo Rules, Here is the first attempt, everything is her’s. She even listed Carl’s 5 books, when I saw this I told Carl and he could not believe she did this to him

Now I am a bad guy for stopping a takeover over a large portion of my life including blood, sweat and money. Between my tape (memorial) and Carls books, she has made many thousands of dollars. Shame on me.

This is the last I will send, their next letter said San Soo was Jimmy’s creation and no one else used it, so now I am a real bad Guy. I don’t really care what anyone thinks, we have done the best we can by finding the truths of our Art. Don’t deny our future students the real facts so they can pass them to their students. As a young student I felt something was … Read more

Blast From the past San Soo Journal Volume 3: Issue 3 Spring 1997 Improving The Flow In San Soo Forms By Master Ron Gatewood When Jimmy introduced us to forms it was done in stages. The first forms we learned were not smooth-flowing Kung Fu Forms. They looked like hard-style Karate Forms. very rigid and power oriented. I have films of the “old-timers” doing these forms and if I did not tell you Jimmy taught … Read more

Hi, Ron asked me to make it easier for people to find the DVD’s and Books to purchase them. Our website is www.sansoojournal.com You go there and go to the DVD and Books Tab and there are drop down menus for the DVD’s. You click on the downarrow next to the appropriate dropdown box and you will see the DVDs. Just add them to your shopping cart and you’re on your way! Barbara San Soo … Read more