Formosa Neijia

This is his upcoming DVD. He apparently takes each of the 37 postures in the Yang style and gives applications for each of the moves. This is brilliant. Why someone didn’t think of this before is beyond me. There are only 37 or so moves in the Yang style, the rest are repeats in […]

[Read more →]

One of the biggest pieces of the IMA puzzle that I was missing in the past was the need for sensitivity training. Most people, East or West but especially us Westerners, are caught up in a quest for power. As I’ve alluded to in numerous postings over the past months, we use various external things […]

[Read more →]

This is Chen Qing-zhou doing his version of the taiji ball. Some people like this. No problem with that. But notice that any time this training gets discussed, the weight of the ball seems to be the main thing. First there’s talk of training a 30 lbs. ball, then it’s 50, then it’s 80. […]

[Read more →]

More video has been made available of the GuoShu leitai fights:

This clip comes courtesy of Mike Patterson and showcases his fighters in the 1996 and 2000 competitions. The footage from the 2000 event is the arena with no people. Some good combos and solid training in there.

This clip is form the 2004 competition. […]

[Read more →]

This is famous Taiwan mantis and taiji teacher Wang Chieh doing push hands with Mike Martello. I’ve pushed with Wang and can definitely say he has skills.

This is his son, who teaches in the States. As you can tell, his son is keeping up the family tradition as far as skill goes.

[Read more →]

This is one of the main theories I use to discuss the manifestation of internal power. I think this theory is close to the idea of “whole body power” and both are good for illustrating neijia concepts. One of the best short pieces on the five bow theory is this excerpt from the excellent Ji […]

[Read more →]

Consider the following excellent quote from Marnix Wells:
On the 1969 summer break…Marnix returned to Taipei, where Gan Xiàozhou took Marnix to the general push-hands Saturday morning meet in the government Legislative Yuàn. There leading luminaries, mostly followers of Zhèng Mànqing, Wáng Yánnián and others engaged in informal push-hands. A young man […]

[Read more →]

This is the full version of Xiong Yang-he’s taiji form. A small clip was recently pasted on youtube, but this is the original. Xiong was one the main guys to bring old Yang style to Taiwan.

This is Wang Zi-he’s complete form. He was a disciple of a disciple of Yang Chen-fu. He was the main […]

[Read more →]

So sorry about the server problems. Hopefully they are cleared up by now.
Here is the second part of the article about Ye Xiao-long and his ideas on being straight and stretching. Those of you involved with huleijia or Xiong Wei’s material should find this stuff invaluable. This article will greatly help you.
Ye’s ideas can lead […]

[Read more →]

Below is part one of a great article written by George Xu on a stretching method from Yang stylist Ye Xiao-long. I remember reading this when it came out years ago. I cut it out of the magazine and threw the rest away because it was just that good. It makes even more sense to […]

[Read more →]