“I fear not the man who practices 10,000 techniques once, but the man who practices one technique 10,000 times holds my respect.”
The gist of that old Chinese saying is obvious: The key to reaching the highest levels of any martial art is practice.
Only by executing thousands of repetitions of your style’s blocks, kicks and strikes will you be able to use your strategies and techniqu ...
Author: Eric Oram
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The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the richest communities for Chinese martial arts in the United States. In the nineties, this area hosted several well-established kung fu tournaments, promoted by respected traditional grandmasters like Lily Lau and Tat Mau Wong. UC Berkeley's tournament was in their shadow. Run by a dedicated but sometimes unseasoned group of Berkeley students, it began modest ...
Author: Gene Ching
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Past, Present and Future
A former all-around wushu champion of China, Hu Jianqiang is probably best known to kung fu fans from his prominent film roles acting alongside Li Lianjie [Jet Li] in The Shaolin Temple series and in Sonny Chiba's Shogun. An award-winning film and television fight scene choreographer, Hu Jianqiang performs his gongfu taolu at break-neck speed with a clarity of movement, ...
Author: Susan Pertel Jain Ph.D.
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For every follower of Shaolin kung fu, there is an experience that sets you on the path. It may have been passed on to you by your family. It may have been after you got into your first real fight. For my generation, it was often after we saw our first kung fu movie. When we heard Bruce Lee yell or Master Po chant wisdom, it resonated within our soul. Somehow, some way, we were brought before the ...
Author: Gene Ching
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Xian Gao is a multifaceted talent. Martial artist, kungfu movie star and teacher, he also has considerable cinematic experience as a choreographer and trainer. Lately you might have seen him in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. What Gao considers most important however, is to live, think, and breath traditional Chinese martial arts.
Gao was born in Xian city, Shanxi province, China. Shanxi ha ...
Author: Bob Feldman
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