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Originally Posted by Switch
Sifu means teacher it is a general term I use for any martial arts instructor I have studied with.
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While you are correct that Sifu means teacher or even more so, father. If you have called an instructor Sifu at a Japanese Dojo, well that just does not make sense. A mixed style school run by a Chinese man, okay. I run a Kung Fu Temple and I am called Sifu in side the Temple only and there really are no "general" terms in traditional Martial Arts. So I guess that is why I seem overtly anal about this, lol...