Formosa Neijia

I was wondering if anyone had any info on Huang Guo-zhen (黃國楨)? I really haven’t heard of anything about him since I got here besides the fact that he was a police officer and had retired many, many years ago. The only info I got was this French page. Did he pass his xingyi and [...]

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A while back, I over did my lower back training, which led to a knee problem. Pinched nerve again. So I called up my massage doctor friend again to come fix me.
He showed up and went to work on my lower back, legs, and feet. He used extra strength Ben-Gay over my kidneys to facilitate [...]

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So I’m a little confused as to what is and isn’t allowed in push hands competition here in Taiwan. As some of you may have gathered, I’m a big advocate of using all your taiji apps in your push hands. For goodness sake, that’s WHERE the apps are supposed to be trained!
So here are the [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0H_z9y3O6I
I rarely see ZMQ taiji that I think is any good. This is an exception. The guy demonstrating does a excellent job of going through all the basic apps of ZMQ style, one right after another. I like the fact that he doesn’t do endless varieties of push — as I’ve seen so many ZMQ [...]

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So the other day I thought I’d try out my own little version of hot yoga. This type of yoga is performed in a room heated to about 105 degrees. Thing is, all I had to do to get my house about that hot was to turn off the air conditioner and the fan. It heated [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oOZKTynS5A
This is an excellent example of Yang style done by a disciple of Fu Zhong-yuan, Fu Zhong-wen’s brother. Lots of good movement in here.
One the things that struck me most was his stepping in lan qie wei (grasp the bird’s tail). In the CPL taiji form based on the old Yang style, we do grasp [...]

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UGH! I can’t take it any more! I’ve spent the past three days trying to get my new videos uploaded to youtube and the server hasn’t responded even once.
Can you believe someone paid US$1.4 billion for that thing?
So are there alternatives out there? What are the top choices for those of us sick of youtube?

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This below is from the Meditation Expert blog. I highly recommend it along with his website! It has lots of great articles. This blog entry below is about shaking, something that often happens to me. IMO what is happening is that if you are shaking, you are likely progressing through to a new level of [...]

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I found this over at Stuart Alve-Olson’s site. He does a good job of describing some basic meditation and gives time frames for practice. The best part of it is the sitting/walking model that he advises for beginning meditation. I find that very useful. I try to meditate for 15 minutes then stretch and do [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZLHIY06mqo
These 6 exercises are great intro to yoga and can be practiced as a warmup for other exercises of as a mini routine all on their own. They are great for waking up the whole body. I have no idea who put them together, but they work really well. They are so simple, and yet [...]

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