Random Thoughts
BEIJING TRAINING DIARY – APRIL
Apart from continuing with my own training, due to the relatively long (3 day) public holiday for Labour Day in China, I was able to take advantage of the break to meet two taiji teachers Read more…
China Trips
Xingyi Roots Series – Hebei Xingyiquan – Tang Shengjun
The next teacher in our Xingyi Roots series was Tang Shengjun, whose great-grandfather, Tang Weilu, was another prominent disciple of Li Cunyi. After being forgotten for most of the 20th century, Tang was again catapulted Read more…
China Trips
Xingyi Roots Series – Hebei Xingyiquan – Zhang Jun
I recently had the opportunity to be part of a mini-documentary series filmed by my friend Will, a fellow kungfu aficionado who runs the informative website and Youtube channel Monkey Steals Peach (https://monkeystealspeach.com/). As part Read more…
Xingyiquan
Song style Xingyi in Tianjin – Li Xuzhou
Song style xingyi, noted for its unique power generation and relatively ‘softer’ approached compared to Hebei variants of xingyi, is one of the rarest of the main xingyi styles, even in China. The vast majority Read more…