Formosa Neijia

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This is an interesting film. Please try your best to ignore the annoying Japanese language overlay.
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As I said yesterday, Mike Martello is doing an excellent job introducing miao dao training to the world. His videos show his skill and dedication in preserving this traditional sword method. Take a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh3e-7KKmRE

This is the old four roads routine that was brought to Taiwan by Han Qing-tan — the famous long fist […]

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I’ve been fortunate to be in contact the past few weeks with Mike Martello, the head of the WuTan martial arts branch in Belgium. We’ve been discussing one of my favorite topics in Taiwan’s martial arts: the miao dao.
For those of you who don’t know, the miao dao is a type of long Chinese […]

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Since I’ve been talking about sparring so much lately, I thought I’d post some decent videos of sparring that I found on youtube. Now, these aren’t perfect, but they are the best of the bunch that I could find there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djyux_rWsKc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djyux_rWsKc
This is wing chun teacher Austin Goh. I thought it was admirable that a teacher would […]

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One thing that would help IMA-inclined fighters is to think of IMA material in terms of skill sets. This takes us a step beyond the usual breakdown of qigong, forms, etc.
Think of all the moves that you train in your particular branch on IMA. Then try to categorize them. I think you will see that […]

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The main reason that I was rushing to get the new blog up and running this week is that next week I start one of the hardest Chinese language programs in existence: the International Chinese Language Program at Taida (National Unversity).
My Chinese has taken two steps forward and one step back many times since I’ve […]

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So here we are. Thanks again to wujimon for his help in getting me up and running. I was ready to pull my hair out getting this site up.
Look for a new post very soon.

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http://formosaneijia.com/
That’s the address of the new blog. There isn’t much to see right now, but I put up a little teaser post to get you guys excited.
I’m working hard on the technical aspects of getting the blog set up. I need it to be up and running by Monday. If it isn’t perfect by then, […]

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I’m hoping to move the blog to a dedicated server this week. Starting next week, I won’t have much time to do the technical aspects of blog maintainence, so this is the week to move.
I’m also trying to set up a video page over at Youtube to store some of the vid clips that I […]

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It dawned on me today just how much the seasons affect my training. When fall approaches, my body naturally wants to conserve a bit of energy by cutting back on lots of sweat-inducing practice in favor of standing, meditation, qigong, etc. This naturally follows the cycles of nature.

Qigong/TCM theory stipulates that we are part […]

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