Formosa Neijia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlkIys9GHYQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlkIys9GHYQ
It appears that an introduction is in order. This is Su Dong-cheng. He is one of the top people trained by Hong Yi-xiang. He left to open a school in Japan in the early ’70’s. His training background includes taiji, xingyi, and bagua, mostly from Hong’s school.
The taiji that he shows in this clip is […]

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I was involved in a discussion about tongbei taiji — a hybrid style of these two great arts — a while back and this is the ino that I came across. I hope to have more info on this interesting style in the future.
“Zhang Duen Xi(張敦熙) is another famous practitioner of Tong Bei Quan(通臂拳) who […]

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It’s official: Feng Zhi-qiang will be an honored guest at the Beijing training session I talked about in this post. He’ll also be teaching some of his material to trip participants. I don’t think “excited” quite covers it for me now. Haha. Long-time readers will know of my admiration for him and I had […]

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Thomas wrote this comment in response to my post on reverse breathing. This kind of comment goes above and beyond the call of duty so I am making it a post of it’s own. I can’t thank him enough for his insights into this and, while it may not satisfy everyone, I think it adds […]

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I’ve been meaning to write a review of Adam Hsu’s Chen vdeos for some time. So here goes.
He has four Chen style DVDs out, one each on the following topics: a short form, laojia yilu, laoji paochui, and huleijia taiji.
All of the videos follow the same format. He gives an intro, basics are shown, the […]

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Reverse breathing is very dangerous and has lots of health risks.
One Chen teacher I learned it from had me use force to push the dantien down on exhale. He said that doing this would greatly increase my power. I practiced the method with him for a half hour or so and then left class. I […]

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I need to thank Curtis Adkins for these pics he took of Han Qing-tan back in 1962 or 63. It was very gracious of Curtis to share these with us.

This is Han doing spear versus sword with Liang Dong Cai 梁棟材 in 228 Park.

Here, Han is teaching his taiji to a group. Han learned his […]

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So I have to thank Tom for this post because he posted this over at EF and then deleted the thread just as I was about to comment. Thanks, Tom.
This is an interesting encounter that Tom found on this blog. It documents what happened when a BJJ guy met a taiji guy in […]

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I see this a lot: someone sees something that they haven’t seen before so they automatically dismiss it or claim that it’s polluted by another style. This happens a lot with the versions of Chen style that we have here in Taiwan. It doesn’t always look exactly like what is expected, so it is considered […]

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My last post on Chen as external will be posted this weekend. Lots of good comments on the topic, BTW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na-zc8hYu6c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na-zc8hYu6c
This is the promo vid for an upcoming training opportunity in Beijing being led by Mike Martello. There are two options for training: a two-week package or one full month. I can only imagine how good […]

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