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Yeah, yeah. Gung fu is the oldest form of self defense known to man here in the Bay Area. There are over 20,000 students of gung fu ranging in ages from 9 to 60 for one of the great masters who brought the ancient art from Hong kong

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to the Bay Area is 80 years old. Gung fu is not just a contest of power and concentration but embodies tradition and ceremony and somewhat of the spiritual. One of the more familiar aspects of the art is the lion dance, a prominent feature of chinese New

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Year's here. The dance signifies the hunt of the lion in search of food. Yeah, several forms of the art include the use of sabers, swords and knives and of course hand to hand combat. Students of gung fu must develop the skills of concentration in order to

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practice some of the more disciplined forms of the art, such as breaking bricks, barehanded, not with callous fists as karate experts do. Creepy. Yeah. What? This is that the person up here, that young man is almost £134 5 and he turned on his stomach and don't

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get scared. Yeah, the national johnny. Although Gung fu is not a well known art practitioners in the Berry will celebrate Gung Fu Day every February 21. Their hope is to make the art known and understood. Yeah. Isabelle Deron, Eyewitness News in SAn Pablo.