Formosa Neijia

DojoRat posted a synopsis of these recent posts about my encounter with this new xingyi teacher. In that post, he described these encounters as challenge matches, and I laughed at first when I read that. But then I thought about what my teacher said when I told him of these encounters.
He thought that this guy [...]

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This post will complete my trilogy on this topic. You might want to read what xingyi people could learn from taiji and what taiji could learn from xingyi first.
Long story short: I got a rematch of sorts with the xingyi teacher that was able to completely shut down my taiji. I attended his class west [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JctLlj9qVI4
I’m on a PH kick lately.
This is a good clip of some Wu style PH. Lots of good stuff here.
I just want to point out one thing. Look at the main white guy who’s being demoed on. Notice the position of his head and neck when he pushes with the teacher. Do you see how [...]

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Considering the BS being spread by some descendants of Wang Shu-jin, it’s good that others are doing what they can to give correct info on him and his martial arts. Telling the truth honors him more than anything. So here is a comment made by Darius over at EF regarding Wang Shu-jin’s baguazhang:
a few comments [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1HEPffo3Xw
Zhaobao push hands never ceases to impress me. These guys seem to be at the top of their game. This is a great clip showing what should be allowed and trained in push hands. Notice the excellent qinna, the throwing (even a snake throw in there), the sweeping, etc. None of this force-against-force, push-my-center, [...]

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So Wang Fu-lai of the Wang Shu-jin school in Taizhong has decided to put down Chen Pan-ling. In case the file goes down, here is some of what he said:
As a result of his connections with Chiang Kai Shek, Chen Pan Ling was appointed as chairman of the Chinese Martial Arts Federation in Taiwan, a [...]

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So I got a wake-up call. Always a good thing. Haha.
I was all ready to write part two of my post what xingyi guys from learn from taiji. I went to practice this morning thinking about it. I had a great workout. I really feel like I’m making progress lately.
I had noticed a guy about [...]

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Now this is interesting. This is a website dedicated to exposing the problems in the American PH circuit. They have a very interesting movie that shows some of these problems.
Watching the movie, I was struck by how different the push hands format is in China and the US. What the heck are all those judges [...]

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I love xingyi for its straight-forward power development and training routine. Training santi, then the five elements and then the animals is a great progression of training. There are just so many things to love about xingyi.
But one thing that I find interesting about many xingyi guys is this blind obsession with power and “banging.” [...]

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These are outstanding examples of local Taiwanese yoga masters. I had no idea Taiwan had such excellent yoga. It seems that yoga is everywhere in Taipei these days. But from the ads, most of the teachers are young women who had no muscle tone to begin with, so becoming super flexible wasn’t such a big [...]

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