To: Solon who wrote (43777 ) 12/8/2013 10:15:55 AM From: 2MAR$ Read Replies (1) | Respond to He definitely had an eye for the young female students, but he was all about practice but had great sense of humor always an awareness about him when he strode the park in the still 5am dawn. Students would quietly assemble practicing & there would be a rack of spears & swords out for the advanced fighters. There was never a worry about gang or thugs messing aroun in that little park, even in his 70s this was still a master walking about, you had the same sense of being in a cage with a lion at times until he smiled.Kuo Lien Ying reportedly was a bodyguard for a while on the gold caravans through China, protecting the caravans on horseback with his unrivaled rope-dart techniques .He allegedly became a governor of a province in China, and later a general in the army of Chiang Kai Shek . In 1947, after the Communist takeover, he fled to Taiwan , became a congressman and opened up a martial arts school. Although he left his four wives and eight children in China when he fled Mao Zedong , Kuo wooed and married the 21 year old sister of one of his students, Ein Simmone Kuo.
