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Top Ten Reasons to Attend the Tai Chi Gala
LIFE / HEALTH & FITNESS / FITNESS & EXERCISE Top ten reasons to attend the Tai Chi Gala March 16, 2016 12:40 PM MST 2016 Tai Chi Gala Instructors Tai Chi Gala No matter what experience level you are in Tai Chi (Taiji) or any Chinese internal martial art system, there are great reasons to attend the Tai Chi Gala this June in Albany, New York. Originally founded by Grandmaster Jou Tsung Hwa and named the "Zhang San Feng Festival", this event is now organized by Jou’s disciple Master Loretta Wollering to unite Tai Chi, Bagua, Xingyi, Qigong, and other internal arts enthusiasts in a sharing spirit. There are many reasons to participate, these are the top ten: 10) The food is reasonably priced, conveniently provided onsite, abundant, and delicious. 9) The location is close to both the airport and Amtrak station and accessible to all travelers. 8) The training venue offers pleasant hotel accommodation and the training facilities are clean and comfortable. 7) Each year this event attracts more than 200 people from all over the United States as well as overseas with a variety of backgrounds and skill levels. It is a great opportunity to connect with people to exchange experiences and stories. 6) The past attendees enjoyed the non-denomination worship ceremony that helped to bring the energy of gratitude together. They said that the free time to meditate, pray, contemplate, or simply breathe deeply was spiritual. 5) The Friendship demonstration on Saturday in the past was a draw. A traditional Chinese Lion Dance from Yee’s Hung Ga Kung Fu, led by Sifu Sharif Bey will join other Sifus to provide an eye feast with various Chinese Martial Arts performances. -
Transmitting Health Philosophies Through the Traditionalist Chinese Martial Arts in the UK
Societies 2014, 4, 712–736; doi:10.3390/soc4040712 OPEN ACCESS societies ISSN 2075-4698 www.mdpi.com/journal/societies Article Transmitting Health Philosophies through the Traditionalist Chinese Martial Arts in the UK George Jennings Universidad YMCA/Lago Alberto 337, Col. Anáhuac, Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, 11320 Mexico City, Mexico; E-Mail: [email protected]; Tel.: +52-1-55-4821-2028 External Editor: Dale C. Spencer Received: 27 July 2014; in revised form: 29 October 2014 / Accepted: 27 November 2014/ Published: 10 December 2014 Abstract: The dynamic relationships between “martial arts”, society and health remain unclear, particularly due to research that typically views health in a purely biomedical and compartmentalized way. Martial arts and combat sports (MACS) offer a diversity of disciplines with their own intended training outcomes and techne. The traditionalist Chinese martial arts (TCMAs), such as Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) and Wing Chun Kung Fu, stress health promotion/preservation, personal development and lifelong practice. Adopting a structurationist framework, this article explores the connections between three distinct philosophies of health and TCMAs, institutions spreading such discourse, and the personal narratives of transformation and self-cultivation through these embodied art forms. Taking a perspective starting from the practitioners themselves, I explore the interplay between discourse and narrative as applied in everyday British society. Following detailed qualitative analysis, “Western scientific”, “contemporary Daoist” and “New Age” health philosophies are identified as explored via three detailed, reflexive cases of long-term practitioner-instructors, their schools and documents that connect them to international exponents across time. This article thus contributes to sociological knowledge on MACS and health, while considering the connections between health philosophies, discourse and narrative. -
Introduction 1
NOTES Introduction 1. One immediately encounters a “term problem” in discussing a phenomenology of race. Terms such as “Chinese” and “white” suddenly become woefully inadequate (as if they were not so already). I try to address this problem in a straightfor- ward way: when I wish to call attention to the term problem within the context of my arguments, I place quotation marks around terms like “Chinese,” “Euro-American,” “foreigner,” “white,” et cetera. When I momentarily ask that the reader accept these categories, for example, in my discussion of Chinese history and Chinese American immigration, I refrain from using quotation marks. 2. Gongfu, commonly written in English as “kung fu,” also refers to “skill,” “work,” or “time.” The “kung fu” that has become part of American vernacular functions in English as a kind of catch-all term for Chinese martial arts, but it is more often used this way in Chinese, for example, when the conversation revolves around foreign practice of martial arts or when the term wushu is avoided. Wushu is the term for “martial arts” in Mandarin Chinese, but it has acquired a complicated associa- tion with performance-oriented martial arts that have little or nothing to do with combat training. Practitioners will usually refer to a particular art by its style name or family association. 3. The style is properly referred to as “Wu style taijiquan” (Wu shi taijiquan). When I conflate “Wu” and “Ma” family names, my purpose is to specify the lineage that has developed through the married couple of Ma Yueliang and Wu Yinghua. -
The Transformative Power of Deep, Slow Breathing Journal of Chinese Medicine • Number 116 • February 2018
62 The Transformative Power of Deep, Slow Breathing Journal of Chinese Medicine • Number 116 • February 2018 The Transformative Power of Deep, Slow Breathing Abstract By: Peter Slow, deep, lower abdominal breathing – for millennia a mainstay of Asian internal cultivation practices – Deadman is a powerful tool for healing and transformation. A wide range of emotional and physical problems can be helped by slow breathing and in the clinic it can be easily taught to patients - both while lying on the Keywords: couch and as home practice. For practitioners it is a tool to deepen into calm, centred and intuitive states Breathing, that will enhance our interactions with patients. For all of us, the growing understanding of the physiology qigong, daoyin, behind deep breathing offers a wonderful insight into the interplay of yin and yang in every aspect of our Chinese lives. This article examines the traditional Chinese medical and self-cultivation perspective on breathing, medicine, self- describes a simple breathing practice suitable for teaching to patients, delves into some of the burgeoning cultivation, science behind breath regulation, and gives an overview of research on the use of breathing practice for the vagal tone, treatment of mental and physical disorders. polyvagal theory, nitric Introduction may be hard – often to the point of profuse sweating oxide, carbon and exhaustion. Its martial application may involve dioxide ‘As for the vitality of all human beings large and dramatic movements, for example the It inevitably occurs because of balanced and aligned flying kicks and punches typical of Shaolin styles. breathing. Waijia is clearly similar to much modern exercise – The reason for its loss running, weight training, gym, high intensity interval Is inevitably pleasure and anger, worry and anxiety.’ training, boxercise, boot camp workouts and even Original Tao, 4th century BCE1 some modern forms of yoga practice. -
The Political Kiaesthetics of Contemporary Dance:—
The Political Kinesthetics of Contemporary Dance: Taiwan in Transnational Perspective By Chia-Yi Seetoo A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Performance Studies in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Miryam Sas, Chair Professor Catherine Cole Professor Sophie Volpp Professor Andrew F. Jones Spring 2013 Copyright 2013 Chia-Yi Seetoo All Rights Reserved Abstract The Political Kinesthetics of Contemporary Dance: Taiwan in Transnational Perspective By Chia-Yi Seetoo University of California, Berkeley Doctor of Philosophy in Performance Studies Professor Miryam Sas, Chair This dissertation considers dance practices emerging out of post-1980s conditions in Taiwan to theorize how contemporary dance negotiates temporality as a political kinesthetic performance. The dissertation attends to the ways dance kinesthetically responds to and mediates the flows of time, cultural identity, and social and political forces in its transnational movement. Dances negotiate disjunctures in the temporality of modernization as locally experienced and their global geotemporal mapping. The movement of performers and works pushes this simultaneous negotiation to the surface, as the aesthetics of the performances registers the complexity of the forces they are grappling with and their strategies of response. By calling these strategies “political kinesthetic” performance, I wish to highlight how politics, aesthetics, and kinesthetics converge in dance, and to show how political and affective economies operate with and through fully sensate, efforted, laboring bodies. I begin my discussion with the Cursive series performed by the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, whose intersection of dance and cursive-style Chinese calligraphy initiates consideration of the temporal implication of “contemporary” as “contemporaneity” that underlies the simultaneous negotiation of local and transnational concerns. -
ESSENCE of COMBAT SCIENCE Translated from Chinese by Andrzej Kalisz
WANG XIANGZHAI ESSENCE OF COMBAT SCIENCE Translated from Chinese by Andrzej Kalisz YIQUAN ACADEMY 2004 ....................................................................................................................................................... At beginning of 1940s Wang Xiangzhai was interviewed several times by reporters of Beijing newspapers. Those interviews in collected form were appended to many books about yiquan published in China. Here we provide English translation of this collection. ....................................................................................................................................................... Founder of dachengquan – Wang Xiangzhai, is well known in the north and in the south, praised by martial artists from all over China. Lately he moved to Beijing. He issued statement that he will wait to meet guest every Sunday afternoon from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Dayangyibing hutong, in order to exchange opinions and knowledge with other martial artists, to promote and develop combat science. Our reporter visited him yesterday. Reporter You have great abilities. I admire you. Could I ask about your aspirations in combat science? Wang Xiangzhai I feel ashamed when friends introduce me as a great representative of dachengquan. Since I left my teacher in 33rd year of reign of emperor Guangxu (1907), I traveled all over country, left footprints in many places, experienced many hardships and met many famous masters. Most valuable was meeting teachers and friends, with whom I could compare skill and improve it, so if we are talking about combat science I can say that I’m “an old horse which knows way back home”. Lately Zhang Yuheng wrote several articles about me. Because I’m afraid that it could cause some misunderstandings, I would like to explain my intentions. I’m getting older, I’m not thinking about fame, but when I still can, I would like to work together with others to promote natural human potential and virtues of a warrior, to eliminate wrong teachings of those who deceive themselves and deceive others. -
Yiquan Essays
YIQUAN COLLECTION OF ESSAYS 1996-2006 YIQUAN ACADEMY CONTENTS AUTHOR TITLE PAGE Cui Fushan I learned from Yao Zongxun 3 Han Luquan Zhan Zhuang and Shi Li 6 He Jingping Wang Xiangzhai – “Contradictions Old Man” 10 Leos Horky Pushing hands 15 Andrzej Kalisz Beijing Yiquan Research Association 23 History of yiquan 24 Kung-fu (wushu) 31 Master Yao Chengguang 34 Qi – magic power? 37 Rules of yiquan pushing hands competitions 41 Sensations and body reactions 43 Understanding yiquan – learning the whole 45 Wang Xiangzhai’s disciples 48 Yiquan anecdotes 49 Yiquan training methods 57 Yiquan – unity of health and combat practice 64 Zhan zhuang training for health 68 Liu Qian Yiquan helped me to recover 70 Shi Wan Will boxing helps people get stron and stay fit 71 Song Jilian Finding a teacher 74 Wang Xiangzhai About dachengquan (yiquan) 77 Benefit from practicing martial art 80 Knowledge and practice 85 Philosophical basis of yiquan 87 Therapeutical effects of zhan zhuang 90 Wang Yufang Introduction to zhan zhuang 92 Wang Brothers Our grandfather Wang Xiangzhai 96 Wei Yuzhu Memory of Yao Zongxun 99 Xie Yongguang Subtlety is the key 101 Master Yao Chengguang and Zongxun Wuguan 102 Master Yao Chengguang talking about shi li 105 About master Yao Chengguang 108 On principles of studying yiquan 111 Yang Visit to a master 115 Yao Chengguang Introduction commentary to “Chinese Yiquan” videos 119 Commentary to Jianwu (“health dance”) 122 About ideal and real pushing hands 124 Answering questions 127 Inaugurational speech, Yiquan Conference, 2002 130 Principles of yiquan tui shou training 133 Worldwide popularization of yiquan 136 Yao Zongxun General characteristics of yiquan 138 Zhang Chao I’m a beginner 144 2 CUI FUSHAN I LEARNED FROM YAO ZONGXUN Translated from chinese by Andrzej Kalisz At begining of 1980s, thanks to Bu Enfu's (famous master of shuai-jiao wrestling, winner of wrestling and boxing trounaments, student of Wang Xiangzhai) introduction, I had luck to learn yiquan from Yao Zongxun. -
The History of Tai Chi
The History of Tai Chi By Ian Deavin © Ian Deavin 2010, All Rights Reserved. Article may be downloaded for personal use only The story of Tai Chi is often conceived as beginning with Chang San-feng - generally regarded as a mythical monk in the tradition of the I-Ching and Taoism– perhaps living around 1368 onwards. He is credited with blending existing health exercises, fighting styles and his own observations (including natural animalistic movements) and strategic thinking into a synthesis which later grew into what we now refer to as Tai Chi. Whether or not Chang San-feng existed it is clear that these many complementary precursor elements were current in Chinese culture over a long period and almost waiting to come together – perhaps just needing the right time, place and person/s to pull all the pieces into one codification. There are many candidates and it may be that no one person is solely responsible – rather perhaps that many interacted and added to the work of their predecessors – these include Chang Sung-chi, Wang Tsung-yueh and Jiang Fa. However the historical record is clear that in the 1600’s a retired Chinese military officer named Chen Wangting (9th generation member of the Chen family) was the focal person who put the whole package together under the umbrella label of Tai Chi Chuan. At that time the family already had a powerful martial reputation and their own successful style, derived from the legendary Chen Bu 1st generation of the family, who lived in the late 1300s and brought that style to Henan from Shanxi when the family moved there ( Shanxi province is also the traditional origin of both Bagua Zhang and Xingyi Chuan ). -
Yiquan Essays
YIQUAN COLLECTION OF ESSAYS 1996-2010 YIQUAN ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL NETWORK CONTENTS AUTHOR TITLE PAGE Cui Fushan I learned from Yao Zongxun 3 Han Luquan Zhan Zhuang and Shi Li 6 He Jingping Wang Xiangzhai – “Contradictions Old Man” 10 Leos Horky Pushing hands 15 Understanding of human body 23 Andrzej Kalisz Alive force in yiquan 33 Beijing Yiquan Research Association 35 History of yiquan 36 Kung-fu (wushu) 43 Master Yao Chengguang 46 Qi – magic power? 49 Rules of yiquan pushing hands competitions 53 Sensations and body reactions 55 Understanding yiquan – learning the whole 57 Wang Xiangzhai’s disciples 60 Yiquan anecdotes 61 Yiquan – combat training 69 Yiquan training methods 72 Yiquan – unity of health and combat practice 79 Zhan zhuang training for health 83 Motor coordination abilities and mental training 85 Liu Qian Yiquan helped me to recover 91 Shi Wan Will boxing helps people get stron and stay fit 92 Song Jilian Finding a teacher 95 Wang Xiangzhai About dachengquan (yiquan) 98 Benefit from practicing martial art 101 Knowledge and practice 106 Philosophical basis of yiquan 108 Therapeutical effects of zhan zhuang 111 New chapter of martial science Wang Yufang Introduction to zhan zhuang 116 Wang Brothers Our grandfather Wang Xiangzhai 120 Wei Yuzhu Memory of Yao Zongxun 123 Xie Yongguang Subtlety is the key 125 Master Yao Chengguang and Zongxun Wuguan 126 Master Yao Chengguang talking about shi li 129 About master Yao Chengguang 132 On principles of studying yiquan 135 Yang Visit to a master 139 Yao Chengguang Introduction commentary -
View Book Inside
liuhebafa five character secrets character five liuhebafa MARTIAL ARTS B067/728 Secrets of Liuhebafa Revealed! The origins of Liuhebafa (also called Water Boxing) can be traced back to the Daoist sage Chen Tuan (c. 871-989 A.D.). Chen is a mystical figure whose advice and perspective was sought by ancient Chinese Emperors. Liuhebafa was the last of the internal methods to be taught outside China. Even inside China, Liuhebafa had an almost mythic quality. Among the groups of inner circle students, Liuhebafa was graduate study in the internal arts. Liuhebafa’s Five Character Secrets (of Li Dong Feng) are the original precepts of this rare internal martial art known as Huayue Xinyi Liuhebafaquan. Li Dong Feng discovered aged manuscripts of Chen Tuan, during an expedition to Chen’s Liuhebafa ancient mountain home. Realizing the importance of what he had found, Li remained on Mount Hua until he mastered the material in the manuscripts. Li returned to his home and then recorded all he had learned on Mount Hua in one hundred and thirty-four verses now known as The Five Character Secrets of Li Dong Feng. This is the only existing treatise on the original principles of Five Character Liuhebafa. This book contains the original Chinese treatise of Li Dong Feng, Pinyin Romanization of the Chinese characters, word for word translation, literal trans- lation, interpretive translation and the author’s commentary on the meaning of each verse. Secrets There is more here than meets the eye. It is wise to approach the Secrets with a beginner’s mind. Imagine being beckoned to sit by the fire. -
The Walk of Life: Internal Martial Arts for Health, Harmony And
Paths beyond Domination The Walk of Life: Centre, Circles, Power & Blending in Bagua and Tai Chi This Workshop The Series / background The role of martial arts The role of internal martial arts Primer on internal power Use of visualization Flow & relationship A Few Questions…Personal 1st Week: can you feel chi-energy? The role of breathing Attention: present moment Where does power come from? How do you learn this stuff? How practical is it? For what? – Relationship between Mental/internal and physical/external …between consciousness and repetition …between forms and principles Questions: Social The role of conflict in life What negative aspects of MA need to be left behind? • our stories of struggle in practice and mastery. The role of tradition in martial arts: dual role of knowledge & repression What is needed to tap these potentials & develop the arts? -education - the economy Go Round : Introductions Who are you? Done any Martial Arts? Special interest? Burning question? The Martial Arts Roots in hunting / gathering cultures: 500,000 years (?) Redefinition in Civilization, class society, patriarchy: 5,000 years (?) Civilization, The Megamachine & the Male Character-Structure: Work (cog-labour) War Civilization / Patriarchy: The Age of Conflict? …or The Age of Domination Domination Domination Domination Homestead Strike, 1892 Domination Domination Domination Domination 3 Gorges Dam (Burtynsky) Domination Domination Domination Domination Basic question: Is Domination now a counterproductive strategy? The limits of Domination-1 The limits of Domination-2 Gendered Identities Propping up the Fordist Waste Economy Cold War mobilization Suburbanization 1960s /70s: Troubles in North American Macho Land John Wayne gets butt kicked in Vietnam Wage/job rollbacks in industry The rise of women, minorities, and countercultural images of androgeny. -
Yiquan. Kung Fu Revolution
YIQUAN KUNG FU REVOLUTION Andrzej Kalisz ––– Yiquan Academy CONTENTS INTRODUCTION - 3 - CLASSICAL XINGYIQUAN - 4 - TRAINING, TESTING AND COMPARING - 6 - A NEW STAGE – YIQUAN - 10 - AGE OF FULL BLOOM - 16 - DIFFICULT YEARS - 30 - NEW HOPE - 32 - HARD TIME AGAIN - 35 - SPRING CAME FINALLY - 39 - PRESENT TIME - 51 - TRADITION AND INNOVATION - 56 - LITERATURE - 58 - 2 INTRODUCTION In years 1997-1999 I wrote a short article about yiquan history and collected anecdotes about its founder – Wang Xiangzhai. Those texts were posted on my web site and translated into many languages. In 2006 most of the information posted at Yiquan Academy site was collected in free e-books, which can be downloaded from www.yiquan.pl The materials about yiquan history and its founder became basis for this new free e- book. You will find a lot of new information, especially about yiquan’s situation in second half of 20th century. Described here is development of the main line of yiquan. I concentrate on the founder Wang Xiangzhai, his successor Yao Zongxun and his twin sons, especially my Teacher – Yao Chengguang. This e-book will provide you with information about facts and people, and should also help you to understand the process of yiquan development better. But please remember that descriptions of events, especially fights and challenges, are based on orally passed subjective relations, and written down by someone else at much later time. Because my research was based on Chinese sources, where names of foreigners writ- ten in Chinese, are then pronounced very different than originally, I was not able to recon- struct original form of names of Europeans in some cases.