Formosa Neijia

Videos on the web of Feng Zhiqiang are quite rare. That’s why I was surprised to find this vid of his whole 24 form available for download. I would highly recommend downloading this video because, like all web vids, you just don’t know how long it will be up.
The video shows Feng and a group [...]

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Two interesting threads on masters, inner circles, and keeping secrets from students can be found here and here.
I’m linking to these discussions because this is a pet peeve of mine. Teachers are all the time telling students that the only “secret” is to train hard. But then some people say that basic training is just [...]

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I’m always on the lookout for functional fitness toys. A lot of the functional fitness stuff is very applicable to IMA and I would advise people to take a long, hard look at functional strength training. One of the main reasons I say that, is that I know too many people, myself included, that got [...]

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I’m a bit shocked at how popular the first post on this style is. It is far and away my most popular post. Since that’s the case, I’ll put a little more info up about this great version of Yang taiji.I have located four teachers that are teaching this style in Taipei. Here are their websites: [...]

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I came across a very interesting thread on the KungFu Magazine Forum that I’d like to share with you. A successful teacher had decided that he was finacially secure enough that he would answer any questions that people had about opening and operating a CMA school. Obviously, people who have made it themselves and then [...]

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Form Variations
Links to parts 1 and 2 of this series.
I was sort of saving this for later, but it came up on EF so I’ll post my thoughts on the lineage of this stuff here.
I can’t speak for what is on the mainland, but here in Taiwan, where zhaobao ends and huleijia (also known as [...]

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I notice that my post on Yang Shao-hou’s version of taiji taught by Xiong Yang-he is very popular on a certain taiji discussion board in Thailand. I would like to welcome all of you and please feel free to make comments or requests if you’d like more info on that style. I find it very [...]

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My Chen taiji teacher uses a modular teaching system in the school. This system splits up the curriculum into very clear levels and the different levels practice separately from each other. This allows him to have a smaller space and provide lots of attention to students. For example, my class is 3-4 students and two-plus [...]

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I know that wordpress is making a few upgrades and that’s good. Unfortunately, I’ve lost two posts and two comments on lifegivingsword and wujimon’s blogs. The server was not responding at those times. I think they may be doing upgrades at times when most of the US is asleep. Unfortunately, that’s when I’m blogging since [...]

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I’m in the market for a sword (jian) and I have to say, it’s a frustrating process so far. My intended field of study is the long fist sword forms of san cai jian, kun wu jian, and qi men jian, evertually to be followed by taiji jian. My only sword background is in the [...]

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