Formosa Neijia

On the heels of Wang’s thoughts on taiji comes a great translation by Josh Stout over at EF. I suggest reading the whole thing but here below is an excerpt.
Yet boxing forms and techniques are what are known as artificial boxing moves 所謂人造拳架子是也. Since the advent of the Manchurian Qing dynasty some three hundred years […]

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This was posted by Spring over at EF. It’s an ….um….interesting read:
As masters of the original ‘Taijiquan’, I should recommend the Yang brothers Shaohou and Chengfu. They are also old friends of mine, thus I know that this boxing really has some knowledge of mechanics, but out of one hundred persons not even one […]

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Dojo Rat has an interesting post on not-touch knockouts and hypnotism. Reading it made me think of my experiences with that kind of stuff — especially a technqiue called the ghost punch.My choy lai fut teacher was capable of some amazing things, but one that I remember the most was the ghost punch. One […]

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You may have to move quickly to get in on this if you’re in Taiwan, but this looks like a great opportunity. This is the liuhebafa. I’m going to try my best to join this class. Join me if you can. The style looks great!
http://www.npo.org.tw/Forums/topic.asp?ForumID=6&PostID=25009
□六合八法(水拳)簡介：水拳是一古老，且完整的拳種體系，首 重心意，融合了形意拳的整勁內涵、八卦拳的步法轉移、太極拳的鬆柔變化、具內家三拳的精微奧妙，習之可通百脈，卻病健身，老少咸宜，為免此高層次的內家瑰 寶失傳。86年由陶炳祥大師，首次在台傳授給少數入室弟子。
□施錫欽教授簡介：
習太極拳藝四十載，師事陶炳祥、黃性賢、蔡肇祺、張敦熙、潘岳及北京魏樹人…等多位武術大師，精通六合八法、太極、形意、八卦、通臂、鶴拳及柔拳諸拳藝。 自1973年起開始於台東社教館授太極拳，1986至1996年間擔任中國文化大學國術系太極拳、推手及通臂拳講師，並曾於合作金庫、中國商銀…等公私單 位交授拳藝，更是石覺將軍（前中華民國太極拳總會理事長）重點培訓的教練。
施教授公務生涯退休後便全心致力於太極拳拳藝的教授與推廣，現任台北市太極拳養生學會理事長。自2003年起施教授開始公開將養生太極拳拳藝傳授，現任國 立陽明大學「太極拳與養生」課程助理教授、台北市太極拳養生學會理事長。並在陽明大學生活廣場傳授重視健康生活的社會大眾。現仍於勞委會勞工安全衛生研究 所、台北市太極拳協會副理事長及教練、仁愛醫院養心太極拳班擔任教練。施教授著有「黃性賢太極鬆身五法」一書及多媒體書籍「黃性賢太極推手」、「推手套路 及形意拳」、「八卦拳」…等。
□課程主旨：
承傳創新傳統文化，推展全民運動，促進身心健康，勤練六合八法拳、 太極養生功法可以增強免疫力，預防感冒，強化心血管功能，幫助自律神經，靈活關節，暢通經脈，增加骨質密度，平衡身心，減緩老化，增進工作效率，降低服藥 頻率。不需基礎只須抱有以太極拳藝增進身體健康的興趣，尤其歡迎慢性疾病患、多病體弱，為求健康而學；為震此拳藝精妙，爰求真理而學。
□水拳班：六合八法套路、養生功法。(基礎班)
□授課日期：96年9月5日~11月28日；每週三晚上7：00~8：50
□推手班：太極應用(太極進階班，有太極拳基礎者)
□授課日期：96年9月4日~11月27日；每週二晚上7：00~8：50
□上課地點：陽明大學廣場(戶外教學)
台北市立農街二段201號
□聯絡：(02)25616649(本會)0921815215(施錫欽老師) […]

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This is an amalgam of several posts made over at the Tabby Cat Yiquan blog. This makes pretty clear how different yiquan is from taiji in terms of push hands and assumptions in training and sparring. As I’ve said many times, many people are glossing over these differences as if we were all doing […]

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This info below is about Qiao Chang-hung — the little nine heaven teacher of James McNeil in California. I’ve been doing some searching around for info about him and the little nine heaven style, and I haven’t found much but I have found some. The below is a general intro about the xiaojiutian system. The […]

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The following is an article by TK Lam that was submitted by reader Myles. Lam is a Chen style guy under Ma Hong, so he addresses Yiquan from an outsider’s POV.
This was submitted in response to my earlier post quoting He Jin-han on Wang Xiang-zhai, which may have been seen as small slight to Yiquan. […]

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I love this picture. This is Gary Clyman after he supposedly bragged about how great his “golden bell” training was to Chang Dong-sheng. As in all training of that type, there was a weakness, which Chang demonstrated quite clearly. I love the grins in the background.

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There’s a question that I’ve been wanting to ask for a while, so here goes. When I attended the BJJ (Brazilian jiu-jitsu) school, I saw a very curious thing — these guys would get a new book or video and would sit down on the mat and read the descriptions and then try out the […]

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I was involved in a discussion about tongbei taiji — a hybrid style of these two great arts — a while back and this is the ino that I came across. I hope to have more info on this interesting style in the future.
“Zhang Duen Xi(張敦熙) is another famous practitioner of Tong Bei Quan(通臂拳) who […]

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