Category: Anecdote

  • Fang Ning On Tai Chi Chuan Kung-Fu

    It is common among martial artists to discuss their skills. The same is true of Tai Chi Chuan practitioners. We have seen a competition match where an older man defeated a younger man; we heard from our teachers and read from books how the Yang Family members’ kung-fu was so good that they defeated hard…

  • Wang Peisheng creative interpretation of some Taiji principles

    Master Wang’s Creative Interpretation and Application of Some Taijiquan Principles in Self-defence Master Wang makes it a point of emphasis and has set an example to his students of how one should use one’s mind and learn from experience of success and failure after having studied carefully the theories set in the Taijiquan classics, listened…

  • Han Xingqiao

    Master Han xing Qiao was born in Shanghai, China in 1909. Master Han Qiaos’ father,(Han you Sun), was a member of the imperial guards in the forbidden city. He was the personal bodyguard of Teng Hou Zhang. His Kung Fu background was diverse, but he was noted as a Ba Ji Quan stylist. The elder…

  • Chu Shong Tin – The evolution of his teaching

    In honor of the late Chu Shong Tin – a legend and true master of Wing Chun You are able to find more of Chu Shong Tin’s teachings here: Sung Wing Chun youtube.com

  • A Female Story of Daoist Cultivation

    Lindsey Wei A young woman, Lindsey Wei, graduates from high school in America and sets out to find her roots in China, questing for who she is and where her life path belongs. She discovers in herself a skill for martial arts and seeks the hidden knowledge of meditation. After three years of study in…

  • Masters of Heaven and Hearth

    Wudang Taiji

  • Long by Gao Zhuangfei

    Gao Zhuangfei’s “Long” zi.

  • Li Junfeng Speaks of Love

  • Origin and Development of Qi-Promoting Techniques

    Si Hongyu and Guo Kai Health Qigong is a special sport. One of its unique features is the simultaneous body and mind regulation. Body regulation means the regulation of the physiological state and mind regulation means the regulation of psychological state. By practicing Health Qigong, we can adjust the physiological and psychological states which have…

  • The Ten Chan Pictures

    (1) In the Wild Troubled by all kinds of thoughts and desires, people are liable to get nervous anal disturbed in daily life and with their natural character con-fused and the ability to sustain themselves lost, they are quite ill with vari-ous worries and diseases. The poem reads: Displaying its horns, the buffalo bellows aloud,…

  • An Interview with Yang Fukui

    By Yang Fukui, as told by Bob Feldman Note: This interview was done over the course of several sessions. I took the liberty of organizing the interview into a cohesive discussion of an “insider’s view” of Yang style Taijiquan. The essence of what Yang Fukui says in this interview is consistent with how he personally…

  • Interview with Zhao Daoxin

    Recorded by Huang Jitao Translated from chinese by Andrzej Kalisz Zhao Enqing originally was disciple of Zhang Zhankui (Zhang Zhaodong). Later he learned from the founder of yiquan – Wang Xiangzhai and became one of his best students, receiving from Wang a honorary name Daoxin. The original interview was made by Huang Jitao in 4 sessions over…

  • Brief Bibliography of Master Yip Hei Sing

    I was born in Longtouye House, Chaolang Village, Chashan Town, Dongquan County, Guangdong Province, China in 1930, on 17th June of the Lunar calendar. I had a craving for martial arts since I was young. Though I had learned Chinese martial art of Northern and Southern style, martial art was something beyond touch to me…

  • Grandmaster Wang Xiang-Zhai (1885-1963)

    “All sorts of strengths originate in the void and nothingness, which can only be felt gradually by the tiny edges and corners of the body”. We must, first and foremost, avoid the use of clumsy force, in body and in mind. Using this force makes the qi stagnant.  When the qi is stagnant, the yi stops;…

  • 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