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Wu Dang from a Chinese source
Nan Lu from N.Y. is a Wu Dang master, acupuncturist, and profound fighter of tai chi, bagua, Xing -I. I study with him and am LOL at such nonsense espoused by the sad commentaries from Jim ' I&# ...
Chinese sword question
It's part of the forging process called 'fullering'- a fuller is a two part spring mounted tool that produces a 'groove' when hammered into the hot steel that both lightens ...
Re:Which Art to choose? Wushu or Aikido or other?
... k your trolling around. or you trained aikido with the wrong group and do not know head or tails of chinese boxing.have you seen san shou?thats one style of chinese boxing. chinese boxing ...
Re:Is Lee a western family name or only found in oriental?
I think that Lee is a Western name, it's spelt Li in Chinese I think, and that was Bruce Lee's orginal spelling in Chinese? Al
Re:Olympic status for Wushu
Every country that has an Olympic team has a wushu team in the works. Currently, the level of skill is far below that of the professional Chinese martial artists. The only competition the Chinese ...
Re:jet li movies
I've found that only chinese, well, cantonese people to be more specific find it funny. All non-cantonese people that I know have seen it never really understood most of the jokes and thought ...
WOW..check out this martial arts action actress
Saw this stunning kids listing originally at www.starseeker.com Official Website: http://felicity.connect.to/ Looks like a new arrival to the film action scenes, British-German action actress and ...
Re:New Martial Arts documentary for the Discovery Channel
says... Sorry, I'm not knowledgeable about wushu schools in China. You're talking 'ancestry', 'well-respected names' and so on, which suggests to me things like ...
Re:Villari Shaolin Kempo Karate?
... 9;Villari's martial arts training started early in life. After being introduced to western and chinese boxing by his father,Villari went on to study jiujitsu and wrestling with the LeBlanc ...
Re:Schools in Texas
You should also check out Houston Institute of Chinese Martial Arts and Medicine. Jeff Bolt teaches there, he is the chief student of Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming. Not only is Jeff is a nice guy but he is ...
Is Wudang “Bull ****
Is Wudang “Bull ****” Hi all, So I was talking to Bruce Frantzis at a party the other night about Wudang arts, and he said “Wudang is Bull ****” “Invented by the government” etc. and ...
Re:Ape Style (?) Anyone?
I have seen that documentary and it is in fact very good. Most Kungfu/Wushu/Qigong documentaries are **** or shallow or pushing an agenda - this one isn't bad. Just one comment - the word ape ...
Re:Aitor Jungle King 2 - $38.00 shipped obo
Is it an actual Aitor or a Chinese knock off? Do you have the original box and all the peripherals?
Re:Martial Arts and the DEVIL
I hope you are not talking about my site.. I certainly do not '**** all martial artists to hell', and in fact support Christian brothers practicing MA (and they themselves raise issues ...
Green Dragon Society?????
Hello, Does anyone know anything about the Green Dragon Society?? I think they claim to be teaching Chinese kung fu and somehow affiliate themselves with Shaolin temple. can anyone tell me more? are ...
Re:why I quit Kung-Fu
Ignorant Mantis (or maybe not that ignorant!) You wrote many things, among them comments about iron palm body etc. These things are not dangerous to long term health if you do them correctly with ...
Re:Chas -- JAMA recent article on Kuntao
Obviously I don't speak for him <g> but I've been involved in his aliran for twenty-two years, so I do have an informed opinion- Bill de Thouars is very specific about his system ...
Re:Chen Taiji and Neijia--some questions
There is no doubt that Lionel is into some pretty esoteric practices- by Ummm, that isn't necessarily so. In social psychology we have a phenomenon called cognitive dissonance, and this ...
Re:Combat Wrestling - (Matt Furey)
Matt Furey wrestled Division Two in college and was an NCAA Div.2 Champ, won I believe a Chinese Shuai Chiao Championship with his wrestling, and has done some catch wrestling in recent years with ...
Re:Yang Style - 24 movement
Hi Bill The 24 is a modern form promoted by the Chinese govt to help spread and standardise the art. From what I have seen there are a few things in it that differ quite a lot from the traditional ...
Re:~Hapkido....goo d art for fighting?
I took Hapkido for about six months, it was a good tie in to the Chinese karate that I am taking. To me Hapkido seemed like it would work much better on the street. With the different techniques ...
Re:Fundamental inability to spell wrt certain names?
Hi, I am no expert in chinese language, but from observation in my readings, the writing of some words can be spelled differently depending on which dialect you use, cantonese, mandarin and ...
communism and martial arts
Communism and isolation in china is what makes modern chinese Martial arts what it is. what are your views? The reason for my view is because peasants dont have anything better to do they have more ...
Re:Martial Law :What style(s) does Sammo Hung practise?
You are correct, most of it is tumbling and stuff you see in Chinese Operas, but alot are Wing Chun. Surprisingly, Jackie Chan also takes Wing Chun. His speed with the wooden dummy (also shown in ...
Re:non-fist hand attacks
Hitting with the palm-heel is a very effective alternate to the fist. The open hand can also strike with the karate knife-hand techniques, and there are many Chinese variants such as willow-leaf palm. ...
Funny translations by MA schools
Funny when made-up martial arts 'styles' forget to check the actual Japanese or Chinese translations of their names. I just read a guestbook entry for a school that teaches 'Goshin ...
Re:Africans told Tae Bo cures AIDs???
.... I find it interesting that the self same people decrying the use of traditional medicine cannot provide the high tech medicine they tout. There are millions and millions of AIDS sufferers in ...
Re:question...
You'll have to call around schools for weapons. Depends on which weapon you are interested in. A Japanese martial art school won't teach Chinese weapons. . . And most schools these days don& ...
too external
all the emphasis here has been on external power. lifting weights etc...a bigger stronger person is going to exert a bigger more powerful blow. the equalizer is the internal strike. when you ...
to Brian C.Allen: Defination of chi, u are wrong !!!!
To Brian C.Allen: LOL. U are wrong!!! Rocks itself dun have any chi. Even for crystal,which some body say it is alive, is contain some sort of natural energy,but it is not the chi !! Pick a stone ...
The Birth Of A Dragon
A guest post By Rick From The Cook Ding's Kitchen Quite some time ago, I wrote about the story of dragons. Tigers are born tigers, but dragons are in legend fish, who through their own efforts ...
Re:Silat in or near Houston, TX?
I've often thought that <GG> Of course, this is the genesis of the dispute original between Mike Sigman and myself- It is the one of the considerations in Willem de Thouars' ...
Re:who said bjj is superior to traditional ju jitsu?
My dear friend I also wanted to get in the mix of talking about this. I am also 42 years old and my BJJ instructor was Prof. Pedro Sauer. I studied alot of Gracie Jui-Jitsu for now 20 years and ...
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