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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ****”
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 ...
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 ...
Is it an actual Aitor or a Chinese knock off? Do you have the original box and all the peripherals?
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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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 ...
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& ...
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:
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 ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 ...