Kahar – Yang Style Funeipai Taijiquan, March 2009
I found an old video of Kahar doing Yang Style Funeipai (府内派, Inner-Manson Style) Taijiquan routine on Youtube. This video was filmed at the Tropical Rainforest Park, Kota Kinabalu and it was uploaded almost 3 years ago on March 2009.
Training Sessions with Jiang Lan, August 2011
My Taijiquan teacher, Jiang Lan, and his daughter traveled from Zhejiang Province of China to Kota Kinabalu City of Malaysia on the 9th of August 2011 for a duration of 4 days. The father and daughter partnership traveled to Sabah solely for the purpose of filling their tummy with curry, tropical fruit particularly durian, coffee [...]
Dennis’s Holiday Retreat December 2010: Taijiquan Workshop at Kuala Lumpur
My Taijiquan teacher, Jiang Lan, is coming to Malaysia! A 10-day Ye Style Taijiquan workshop will be conducted by Jiang Lan at Kuala Lumpur from 22nd to 31st of December 2010. Kahar and I (Dennis) will be leaving Kota Kinabalu to Kuala Lumpur to attend this workshop from 22nd to 29th December 2010. What a [...]
My Taijiquan Teacher – Jiang Lan
I met Jiang Lan at Jiaxing City during my martial arts searching trip to China in April 2005. I started to learn Taijiquan from Jiang since then. Jiang is a scholar at heart, I love his innovative way Taijiquan teaching and clear explanation of Taijiquan theory. As Xingyiquan is my major, I only learn the [...]
Sun Lutang
Sun Lutang (孙禄堂, 1860 – 1933), from Wangdu County, Heibei Province, was a famous martial arts master during late Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911) and early Minguo (Republic of China, 1911 – 1949) era. Sun Lutang, a.k.a. Sun Fuquan (孙福全), began his martial arts studies at 8 years old, where he learned Shaolin boxing from [...]
Ju Ming’s TaiChi Series Sculptures
Ju Ming (朱銘, 1938 – ) is a Taiwanese sculptor, who attained fame in Taiwan in the 1970s, and in New York in 1983. Ju Ming was trained as a woodcarver, apprenticed to Lee Chin-chuan, as a teenager. He developed his skill, and applied it to a range of media, including bronze, styrofoam, and stainless [...]
More about Taiji Symbols of Ukraine Pavilion at Expo 2010
This is part 2 of the post The Mysterious Taiji Symbols at Expo 2010. The Ukraine Expo 2010 official website has the following descriptions to those mysterious Taiji symbols at their pavilion: The pavilion of Ukraine is designed in the three-field style, as scientists consider that the ancient Chinese civilization Yangshao is indigenous to the [...]
The Mysterious Taiji Symbols at Expo 2010
Bright-colored mysterious Taiji symbols and Bagua (eight trigrams) looked-a-like symbol on the facade of a pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai China. Taiji and Bagua are usually the symbols of East Asia culture, however, this is not China pavilion nor Korea pavilion. It was quite amazed to find out that this is the Ukraine pavilion, the [...]
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