Author: thomas

  • Squatting for healing

    Simple Slow Squatting Movement. Many chronic patients have regained thier health to a quite substantial extent. One set of motions (1 minute) consists of the follwoing 4 steps: a)Squat slowly down takes 15 seconds. Throughout the motion: Breath naturally while all muscles & tendons of face, fingers, palms, hands, arms, neck, shoulders, chest, ribs, abdoment,…

  • The Legend of Li Ching-Yuen

    In the province of Szechwan in China lived until last week Li Ching-yun. In China where Age means something he was a great man. By his own story he was born in 1736, had lived 197 years. By the time he was ten years old he had traveled in Kansu, Shansi, Tibet, Annam, Siam and…

  • Li Tianji Taijiquan

    Yang style long form performed by Li Tianji (1913-1996), son of Li Yulin, who was student of Li Jinglin, Sun Lutang and Yang Chengfu. Li Tianji studied wushu from his father, Li Yulin, as well as from his father’s masters, Sun Lutang and Li Jinglin. He graduated from the Shandong Wushu Institute, became a college…

  • What is Peng Jin?

    What is Peng Jin and is it better to maintain a little in the arms for example to prevent people from coming in? People misunderstand Peng. There is another word with the same sound and only one stroke different that means something like structure or framework and people often think this is what is meant…

  • Master Ma Yuehliang and Madame Wu

    An Interview with the two prominent proponents of Wu Style Taiji Master Ma Yue Liang and Madame Wu. Links: Search YouTube for Ma YuehLiang youtube.com

  • Pengzu Qigong

    Liu Dehua performs the esoteric, vibrating and sound humming Pengzu Qigong

  • The classical text sources of qigong

    WARRING STATES AND HAN DYNASTY (475 B.C. – 220 A.D.) The earliest exclusive texts that deal with the meditative practices and the gymnastic exercises are the recent archaeological text discoveries. Circulating Qi Inscription Xingqi ming 行氣銘 (475 B.C. – 206 B.C.), scholars consider this text to be from the earlier Warring States Period. This is…

  • Interview with Liu Xinghan (1909-2000)

    Liu Xinghan, 4th generation Cheng Style Bagua. Reference: huangxin.net

  • Push hands with Lin Mogen

  • Seigo Okamoto on Aiki in Aikijujutsu Daitoryu Roppokai

    Seigo Okamoto (b. 10 February 1925). B. Yubari City, Hokkaido. First taught by Kodo Horikawa in 1963 in Kitami, Hokkaido. Received 7th dan from Horikawa in 1974. Okamoto was promoted to shihan by Horikawa in 1978. He separated from the Kodokai to found Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu Roppokai after moving to Tokyo in 1977. Okamoto’s art is characterized…

  • Effortlessly by Fong Ha

  • Chen Taiji – Liao Jia Yilu and Erlu

  • Tai Chi Principles

    Professor Ji Jian-Cheng – Zhejiang University, China If you want to master Tai Chi Chuan, you first need to understand ‘Wuji’ (emptiness, formlessness). And, to really comprehend the inner meaning of Tai Chi, you also have to be aware of its philosophy and principles, and practice according to them. Then, after a long period of…

  • Yiquan

    This introduction to Yi-Chuan was written by Wang Yu-Fong, daughter of the founder, Wang Xiang-Zhai Frequently in this modem era, filled as it is with technologies like computers and space-age travel, we make the mistake of perceiving martial arts in simple “what you see is what you get” terms. In other words, the practice and…

  • Yiquan Academy

    Staring Master Yao Chengrong, the son of the late Master Yao Zongxun (the succesor of the founder of the Yiquan 意拳 style Wang Xiangzhai). Links: Yiquan Academy youtube.com Yiquan Martial Arst Academy yq-zywg.com Yiquan wikipedia.org