Formosa Neijia

This is one of the prettiest miao daos I’ve seen. If I had the money, I’d snap one up in a heartbeat. I’m not sure of the price, but any site that doesn’t have prices is probably out of my league.
On a related note, I’m getting a really funny feeling about the Adam Hsu miao [...]

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I just got back from the demonstration that I talked about here. Wow! I was really impressed by the version of Gao style bagua that I saw today. It was the lesser known branch that made it here to Taiwan, but they are definitely good. They put on a great demo that I managed to [...]

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So the world cup (official site) info is up for the tournament scheduled next weekend. Even if you’re not into competing, I would HIGHLY recommend attending this event! It’s great to see everyone doing taiji, pushing hands, etc. The whole place will be devoted to the MA, and that’s a cool thing to be around.
Here [...]

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So if you’re having a week like I’m having, you could probably use some humor. Below is just one fine example from my favorite comic strip — Red Meat. Enjoy.

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Below is the poster for an upcoming series of martial arts demonstrations that will be held in Taipei. The lineup looks interesting with bagua and Chen style being heavily represented. One of the groups that I learned from will be performing their 48 short Chen form, the laijia yilu, 32 move paochui, and their version [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb1rYHvgVFU
My guess is that most of you have seen this by now. But I didn’t know that it has been made available on youtube yet, so maybe some of you didn’t either.
This video was put on the Net by a popular Taiwan martial artist, but how that happened is a bit controversial. Reagrdless of the [...]

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UGH!!!
I just got a look at this:
CHIAYI CITY TO HOST INTERNATIONAL TAI CHI CHUAN CHAMPIONSHIP
2006-10-20 19:20:01
Chiayi City, Oc. 20 (CNA) The first International Tai Chi Chuan Championship sponsored by the Republic of China Kuoshu and Wushu Federation will take place in Chiayi City from Saturday for two days.
Chiayi Mayor Huang Min-hui and Yang Hui-feng, president [...]

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One of my teachers has an excellent verison of yijin-jing that he teaches. It’s the most comprehensive qigong set that I’ve ever seen comprising 216 movements. Once you learn it, you’ll have all the qigong you’ll ever need.
Fellow student onyomi (see this thread at EF) is working as hard as he can to prepare translations [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6xOYh6HIMA
This is a clip of Feng (one of my favorite taiji players, as I’m sure you can tell) doing some really cool push hands. He does quite a few push hands application, often calling them free sparring techniques. I’m not sure, really, why he called them that. They seem more like normal PH applications to [...]

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So I’ve gotten some info from Orz, a new reader of the blog, that puts a whole different spin on my previous post about the fight/push hands match between CXW and Liao Bai. Let me state up front and for the record, I have NO affiliation with either one of them nor do I really [...]

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