Grandmaster "Fishmonger" Qiang and his Son, Zhong Luo
The most notorious villain of kungfu is Bak Mei. Blamed for the greatest tragedy of kungfu history, legend tells us that Bak Mei was a Wu Dang priest who betrayed the southern Shaolin Temple to Manchu tyrants during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911.) The temple was destroyed, the library burned and the monks killed. Actually, Bak Mei is a nicknam ...
Author: Gene Ching
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To every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up
(Ecclesiastes 3:1-3)
Four of the boys at training tonight are preparing themselves for thei ...
Author: Rev. David B. Smith
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"How can I improve my Tai Chi Chuan?" - a question often asked by my students. It is also a question I have grappled with as long as I can remember. I remember I posed the same question to my teacher once, the late grandmaster Yang Sau-Chung, and he tersely replied, "By practicing the form correctly!" "But how ?", you may ask. A good teacher helps, but he can't be there correcting you all the time ...
Author: Howard Choy
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The term “mixed martial arts” refers to the modern concept of combining stand-up skills and ground fighting. Being a total fighter is now the rule rather than the exception. While integrating strikes, takedowns and submissions is a relatively novel idea to some, those who train in the Greek art of pankration know it’s far from new. In fact, it dates back some 3,000 years.
The ancient Hellen ...
Author: Nick Hines
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In his own preface to the 'Encyclopedia of Taijiquan' published in 1933, Yang Cheng-Fu recorded a sentence attributed to his grandfather Yang Lu-Chan. "Taijiquan was created by Zhang San-Feng at the end of the Song Dynasty. Development continued through one, Wang Zhongyue, Chen Zhouting, Zhang Songki, Jiang Fa."
Xu Zhiyi said something similar in his 'General Introduction to Taijiquan', pub ...
Author: ZHANG SANFENG
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