Boulder Internal Arts - Awareness Through Marital Movement. Internal Kung Fu training in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Gao Bagua Zhang and Hebei Xingyi Quan; methods for building mindfulness, lasting health and personal transformation using unique movement and martial contact in a safe setting with an established long-term group.
First class is free. Use the Widget on the Right or Email for More Info : Owen_YiZong @ Hotmail
Although I don't post much here anymore. We are still training and teaching in Boulder, Colorado USA after 20 years!
Boulder Internal Arts offers ongoing classes in the Gao school of BaGua Zhang (the Yi Zong branch from Luo DeXiu of Taiwan). We also teach Hebei Xing Yi Quan, and Qi Gong in every class!
Our teachers have multiple decades of teaching and training experience. We have a great group of long term students from 20 to 80+ years old with diverse martial, cultural, movement and occupational backgrounds. Our focus is on learning, training and having fun in a safe environment. First class is free.
Use the Widget on the Right or Email for More Info : Owen_yizong @ Hotmail
The Kung Fu Conversations Podcast is an ongoing conversation about Kung Fu philosophy, practice, and training for the Kung Fu curious and old school practitioners of any style. Featuring honest bi-weekly discussions and interviews about current events, training, the long history of Chinese Kung Fu, and its meaning and relevance to today's practitioners.
With over 50 years of combined experience teaching, training, and using internal and external styles of Chinese Kung Fu, Owen Schilling and Randel Davis bring insight, laughter, perspective, and clarity to the complicated subject of Chinese Kung Fu.
"This is a famous form from the Hung Gar style, called 'Tiger and Crane Pair Form' (Fu Hok Seung Ying 虎鶴雙形). It is performed by sifu Yeung Dakyau sifu 杨德友師傅 (90 years old at the time when the video was shot), a Nanjing 南京 practitioner of Naam Siulam Tingong Mun 南少林天罡門 and a TCM physician. He has started the training at the age of 6; currently he should be in his late 90s these days..."
A very nice copy of YMAA - Yang Jwing Ming's: Shaolin Chin Na/ Qin Na (found: HERE). Chin Na/ Qin Na means to "seize, hold" and refers to joint locking, choking and submission holds. It is one of the four basic areas of training found in all complete traditional Kung Fu systems; the others being Throwing (includes Sweeping/Tripping/ Takedown-Knockdowns), Kicking, Hitting.
Learn Chin Na/ Qin Na - Internal Kung Fu - in Boulder, Colorado Check: HERE
*Disclaimer* I have no idea if the following is true or factual.
This documentary is an awesome Chinese propaganda piece. After the success of movie "Shaolin Temple" with Jet Li, the Chinese government saw the possibility of developing the Shaolin temple as a tourist destination. Hai Ting had been a monk at Shaolin in the 1920's or 1930's before it was blown up (apparently it was being used as an ammo dump). Eventually he was arrested for being a religious subversive, tortured and kept in Jail by the Communists. Subsequently he was released and went to live his life until Shaolin was reopened. He was approached by the government and told he was going to be made Abbot of Shaolin. Hai Ting died not long after this movie was made.
Check out parts 8 and 9. Part 8 has a very young Jet Li with Sun Lu Tangs daughter Sun Ji An, Tai Ji guy Wu Tu Nan, Liang style Bagua master Li Zi Ming and others.
These are two of the Shaolin Temple Grand Masters of the 31st
Generation, Shi DeRu (Shawn Liu) & Shi DeYang (Shi WanFeng). They
are the close disciples of the last true Shaolin Monk Great Grand Master
Shi SuXi, Chan (Zen) spiritual leader (before communist or commercial
temple). wikipedia.org
Bak Mei - The White Eyebrow Monk
"(from wikipedia) is said to have been one of the legendary Five Elders — survivors of the destruction of the Shaolin Temple by the Qing Dynastyimperial regime (1644–1912) — who, according to some accounts, betrayed Shaolin to the imperial government."
Bak Mei Basic Techniques demonstrated by Master Chen Zhong Liang / Chan Jung Leung Chen
Zhong Liang studied martial arts from Childhood becoming very skilled
in both Bak Mei and Taiji Quan. His Bak Mei teacher was Chen Jun Xia /
Chan Gwan Haap. Studying under master Chen Jun Xia he became very
close friends with fellow student and Bak Mei innovator Li Yao Bin / Lei
Yiu Ban. Although Chen Zhong Liang's main love was Bak Mei he was
very interested in the philosophy and methods of Taiji. He began to
apply the teachings and methods in the Taiji classics to Bak Mei even
writing essays on the subject. Throughout his life he continued to practice both Taiji and Bak Mei, eventually refining his Bak Mei to a very high level.
Sì mén bāguà / Sei Mun Baat Gwa - Bak Mei Four Gates Eight Diagrams Boxing demonstrated by Master Chen Zhong Liang / Chan Jung Leung
Báiméi dìshà quán / Bak Mei Dei Saat Kyun - demonstrated by Master Chen Zhong Liang / Chan Jung Leung. As the name indicates this form teaches Bak Mei's methods of both
fighting on the ground and even more so against someone on the ground.
Bak Mei Weapons (Sword, Saber & Staff) demonstrated by Master Chen Zhong Liang / Chan Jung Leung
