Formosa Neijia

Hat tip to Another Neijia Blog for bringing this to my attention. Here is a relatively new interview with Mike Patterson from March of 2007. He talks about fight training and him learning liuhebafa. Here’s an excerpt about “real IMA fighting” versus “sport”:
Karl-Heinz: Internal Arts have many attacks against the neck, the spine and [...]

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This looks to be a decent new baguazhang school that recently opened in Beijing. The teacher’s material looks solid. He’s a senior student of Gao Ji-wu and is concentrating on teaching the Cheng style of bagua. Xingyiquan and many types of taijiquan and qigong are all offered. The website is even in English and they [...]

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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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These are more pics of Chen Pan-ling in various xingyiquan poses. Thanks to Darius for making them available. Pt. 1 is here.

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Here are several pics of Chen Pan-ling in various xingyiquan poses. Pics of CPL are a bit too rare. Thanks to Darius for making them available.

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Judging from the comments, I think we’re missing the point of my post about victimization. I’m NOT talking about just visiting a new school for the first time. That isn’t what happened here. I’ve started over with MA so many times I can’t count them. I’ve visited dozens of school over the course of my [...]

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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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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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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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