Formosa Neijia

For those of you who don’t know me, my real name is Dave Chesser. I’m in the pic above doing push hands with Mike Martello’s excellent teacher — Wang Jie. I’ve been using the screen name “chessman” for years because it was my high school nickname.
My martial arts background has been discussed before, but here [...]

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I would like to direct your attention to the Taiwan teacher directory in the upper left hand corner. I have updated this directory and it’s now all in English. I have listed many of the teachers that I know of and have given their contact info or websites. Some well-known people are missing due to [...]

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Lots of things going on here at Formosa Neijia. The blog will be changing a lot in the near future as I want to take it in a new direction.
The first change is that I’m going commercial. With that in mind…
Please use the donation button in the upper right hand corner to donate what you [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpPPQCak5mI
Looks like everyone had a good time. Lots of training and performances in this clip. Early reactions seem to favor the bagua teacher as looking like one of the best in the clip. He does seem to have some amazing moves.
So for those of us that couldn’t make it, there’s always next year to look [...]

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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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I think we need a palate cleanser.
So this is for all the South Park fans out there. This is a rare video that Matt and Trey made before they became famous. The back story is that in 1995, Seagrams (a company famous for its wine coolers) bought Universal Studios. The new CEO wanted a [...]

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I’ve been noticing lately that Internet forums and blogs have gone from bad to worse in terms of mud and hate that posters sling at each other. In some cases, it has become intolerable.
Over at EF, all sorts of BS have broken out. There’s more “challenges” than you can count. I posted something in a [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STRja-ABexU
This is the one-year anniversary of the blog. I can’t believe it’s been a year already! Blogging-wise, time has really flown. I haven’t written hardly any of the “big posts” that motivated me to start the blog in the first place. So we have lots more to talk about.
So I want to say a huge [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQGJLP1ES8c
I’ve been in Asia for ten years now, and I’ve developed an aversion to Asian pop, with the exception of some J-pop. More Japanese pop singers actually write their own music and play actual instruments that Mando pop stars from China, Hong, Kong, and Taiwan. I don’t know about Korea. Mando pop repluses me because [...]

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So I tried on my judo uniform the other night and found out that it still fits. Unfortunately, that’s as close as I’m likely to get to taking judo again, at least for a while. My earlier plans are looking really over-optimistic. Continuing with the CPL taiji and taking lessons in Chen from Tu laoshi [...]

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