Formosa Neijia

Peter Ralston will be in Tokyo in February 2009. He doesn’t come to Asia very often so this is your big chance to see him if you live in the area. I will try to attend at least the boxing session held on the last weekend, so if you go then we could meet up. [...]

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Thanks to Charlie Conklin for this. Below is a description of some push hands games from Cheng Hsin. As I understand them, the purpose of these games is to introduce elements of freeplay that move you beyond simple cooperative pattern work. You’re still cooperative in terms of playing the game, but you must now look [...]

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For a review of who Peter Ralston is, check out my review of his DVD.
It seems there is a Cheng Hsin blog now.
I’m glad to see this. More info about Peter Ralston’s system is a good thing. The blog has a link to his new wikipedia page.
Lots of interesting tidbits there, more than I’ve seen [...]

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In brief, this DVD is one of the most impressive displays of skill I’ve seen. Ralston’s blend of taiji, bagua, and aikido is great. If you’ve been a bit confused over his books, watching him in action will reveal the concepts he talks about. This DVD is over an hour of him and his students [...]

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The main problem that I see with the obsession with fighting through IMA is that the fighting mindset gets in the way of truly developing IMA skills.
Consider how people think of fighting: us vs. them, me vs. him, good guys vs. bad guys, a clash of two forces, etc. Notice the sharp splitting of two [...]

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T’ai Chi Ch’uan: The Internal Tradition by Ron Sieh is a great book that I would like to recommend to everyone. It’s basically an introduction to Peter Ralston’s Cheng Hsin, but done in a slightly easier to read fashion. It’s a great place to start and a great book overall.
One thing that struck me recently [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6KYGn8VnLI
Wow! I’m all giggly inside.
This is Peter Ralston, the creator of Cheng Hsin. So let’s just throw this out there: his books changed the way I thought about martial arts and most everything. I will review all of his books later.
Finally, some clips of him have made it to youtube. It’s good to [...]

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