CHUAN - FIST FA - WAY OR LAW CHUAN-FA - WAY OF THE FIST
KUNTAO- WAY OF THE HAND OR FOOT- "Thank you for being humble and you are a very good man and excellent practitioner in kuntao. I heard of you and I did evaluated you for your loyalty and devotion already a long time. I also saw you on an old tape performing one of Willem's Fuekchen forms. You are also one of the "less" few individuals I allowed to come and train with me in my back yard. Even after my retirement in 2010.
please in grace Uncle Bill ( Willem de Thouars )
TJIMANDE- FLOWING WATER HANDS ( BROTHER ART OF SERAK )
MUSTIKA KWITANG- MUSLIM HUSBAND (MUSTIKA) CHINESE WIFE (KWITANG) COMBINED THERE ARTS.
GARUDA- MYTHICAL EAGLE OF INDONESIA
Hakka- Hakka people of central china, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian. Hakka dialect is also spoken on the Islands of Hainan and Taiwan.
Bak Mei- Kung-fu- close range hand strikes, intercepting and jamming. Principles- float, sink,swallow,spit,thrust and spring.
I WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO THE MARTIAL ARTS THROUGH MY COUSIN IN 1966, HE WAS STATIONED IN OKINAWA, STUDIED JUDO AND GOJU RYU
KARATE. LATER I STUDIED ISSHINRYU, BUT NEITHER SYSTEM SUITED ME. WHEN I CAME HOME FROM COLLEGE IN 1972 I FOUND, BY ACCIDENT, THE
CHINESE/INDONESIAN ARTS OF WILLEM REEDERS. MY TEACHER WAS SIFU GARY GALVIN, HE WAS TEACHING CLASSES ON SUNDAY MORNINGS A
BLOCK AWAY FROM MY HOUSE. I MET FRIENDS FROM HIGH SCHOOL AT THE SCHOOL, I WASN'T 120 LBS. SOAKING WET AT THE TIME. AND THEY SAW
AN EASY MARK. BUT THIS SYSTEM SUITED ME, I ADVANCED FASTER THAN ANYONE ELSE, AND CONTINUED ON TILL 1978 WHEN MY TEACH MOVED
TO FLORIDA AND I STARTED MY OWN SCHOOL. I TAUGHT THE SYSTEM FOR A FEW YEARS, THEN I MET A FRIEND IN1985 WHO TAUGHT KEMPO, WE
EXCHANGED SYSTEMS, I MADE 3RD DEGREE BLACK BELT IN 2 YEARS. I KNEW THEN HOW SPECIAL THE SYSTEM I ALREADY HAD BY HOW QUICKLY I
COULD PICK UP ANOTHER STYLE. I REMEMBER PAUL de THOUARS TELLING ME HOW FAST WILLEM REEDERS COULD ABSORB ANOTHER STYLE.
THE KNOWLEDGE I RECEIVED FROM MY ORIGINAL SYSTEM GAVE ME THAT ADVANTAGE. I RECEIVED MY 5th DEGREE MASTER LEVEL IN 2007 AFTER A
LONG BREAK FROM KEMPO CONCENTRATING ON SILAT AND ARNIS.
WILLEM REEDERS "THE RED ANT"
WILLEM REEDERS OF THE ROYAL NETHERLAND NAVY WAS CAPTURED BY THE JAPANESE IN DECEMBER 1941. THE PRISONERS WERE SENT TO
A PRISON CAMP OUTSIDE OF UBON, SIAM. THE CAMP WAS SURROUNDED BY A 10 FT. HIGH BAMBOO FENCE. LOCALS WOULD THROW FOOD THE
STARVING INMATES OVER THE FENCE. WILLEM HAPPENED TO BE NEAR THE FENCE WHEN A LOCAL TOSSED SOMETHING OVER. WILLEM WAS
TAKEN TO BE QUESTIONED BY A GUARD, HIS HANDS WERE TIED IN FRONT OF HIM AND WAS MADE TO KNEEL ONTO A TRIANGLE SHAPE BOARD TO
INFLICT PAIN DURING THE INTERROGATION. THE LONE SOLDIER APPROACHED WILLEM WITH HIS BAYONET, DROPPING TO HIS SIDE, WILLEM
KICKED THE GUARD TO THE FLOOR, THEN DROPPING A KNEE INTO HIS CHEST. ROLLING THE GUARD OVER HE STRUCK HIM ON THE BACK OF HIS
HEAD AND ESCAPED. WILLEM HEADED SOUTH TO UBON , HE CAME ACROSS A BUDDHIST PRIEST WHO HID WILLEM UNTIL HE COULD GET HIM TO
THE LOCAL RESISTANCE. WILLEM JOINED THE GUERRILLA ARMY AND SOON WAS GIVEN HIS FIRST MISSION. DRESSED AS A BUDDHIST PRIEST IN
THE YELLOW ROBES AND WEARING GLASSES WILLEM WAS FREE TO TRAVEL WITH LITTLE NOTICE FROM THE JAPANESE.
WILLEM'S FIRST MISSION WAS TO BLOW UP THE BRIDGE OVER THE MENAM RIVER. FIVE OTHER COMMANDO'S WORKED WITH HIM ON THIS
DANGEROUS MISSION. WILLEM APPROACHED THE FIRST GUARD ON THE BRIDGE, BEING DRESSED AS A PRIEST, THE GUARD INVITED HIM FOR A
CUP OF COFFEE. WILLEM TOOK OUT THE GUARD MUCH LIKE THE ONE BACK AT THE PRISON CAMP. WALKING THE LENGTH OF THE BRIDGE HE
APPROACHED THE OTHER GUARD. USING THE BLADE HIDDEN IN HIS ROBE HE SLASHED THE GUARD AND TOSSED HIM OVER THE BRIDGE.
WILLEM BEING A ENGINEER HELPED SET THE CHARGES TO THE BRIDGE, A SMALL TRUCK WITH SOLDIERS IN IT PASSED OVER THE BRIDGE,
WILLEM AND HIS UNIT WAITED UNTIL THE TRAIN ARRIVED AND THEN BLEW THE BRIDGE. THE TRUCK FULL OF SOLDIERS HEARD THE EXPLOSION
AND RETURNED, WILLEM AND THE REST OF THE COMMANDO'S TOOK THEM ALL OUT. THE FIRST MISSION WAS A SUCCESS. WILLEM REEDERS
AND HIS UNIT BLEW UP MANY MORE BRIDGES BEFORE THE END OF THE WAR.
THE NEXT MAJOR MISSION WAS TO DELIVER MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO A CAMP CALLED "RIN TIN" NEAR THE BURMESE BORDER. RIN TIN WAS THE
NORTH TERMINAL FOR THE RAILROAD TO BURMA. THE CAMPS PRISONERS WERE HOUSED IN TENTS WITH NO FENCES, NOT NEEDED BECAUSE
OF THE DENSE JUNGLE AND ALL THE PRISONERS HAD MALARIA AND TYPHUS. WILLEM HAD QUININE HIDDEN UNDER HIS BUDDHIST ROBE. HE
WAS ABLE TO ENTER THE CAMP FREELY AND DELIVER THE MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO THE DOCTORS. WILLEM BEGAN TO ORGANIZE A MASSIVE
ESCAPE BUT THE WAR ENDED WITH THE JAPANESE. AFTER THE JAPANESE SURRENDERED THERE WEAPONS AT THE CAMP WILLEM CAME OUT OF
HIS BUDDHIST ROBE AND LET THE GUARDS KNOW HE WAS THE INFAMOUS "RED ANT". THE de THOUARS BROTHERS FATHER WAS AT THE CAMP
WITH WILLEM REEDERS.