Feast, Big Feast, More Big Feast
China Trip, Spring 2012: Feast, Big Feast, More Big Feast One of the custom during the Spring Festival (a.k.a. Chinese New Year) period in China is to catch up with family and friends, sharing a feast with your love ones and buddies is the climax of any gathering on planet earth, and there is no [...]
How I spent my time in China
China Trip, Spring 2012: How I spent my time in China I spent 10 days in Jiaxing City of Zhejiang Province for Zheng Mingxing‘s 80th birthday from 27th of January to 6th of February 2012. It was school break and spring festival, a.k.a. Chinese New Year, period in China. Although the official holiday period for [...]
My Grand Teacher: Ma Zhenzong
My shifu, Zheng Mingxing, has many martial arts teachers, Ma Zhenzong is the only person who he called shifu. Ma Zhenzong (马振宗, 1910 – 1993), from Jiaxing City of Zhejiang Province, was a lawyer at Shanghai City, as he lived near Shanghai Chin Woo Athletic Federation, he was able to learned various style of martial [...]
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 [...]
Introducing Ye Style Taijiquan and Ye Dami
Ye Style TaiJiQuan or YeJiaQuan (Ye-Family-Boxing) is referred as the style of Taijiquan which was practiced and taught by Ye Dami by the martial arts circle around Shanghai City and Zhejiang Province. Ye Damin (叶大密, 1888 – 1973), from Wencheng County of Zhejiang Province, was grown up in a martial arts and Chinese medical family. [...]
Taiji Snake Whip by Mei Yi
This is a video clip of Mei Yi demonstrated Taiji Shebian (Snake Whip). Mei Yi (梅一, 1928 – ) is a senior of my sifu, Zheng Mingxing, who studied Chaquan, Ye Style Taijiquan and Xingyiquan under Ma Zhenzong (马振宗, 1910 – 1993). Mei was well known with his Chaquan at a younger age, he switched [...]
Mei Yi – Taiji Snake Whip, August 2007
This video clip of Mei Yi’s Taiji Shebian (Snake-Whip) demo was filmed at Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, China during summer 2007. About Mei Yi Mei Yi (梅一, 1928 – ) is a senior of my sifu, Zheng Mingxing, who studied Chaquan, Ye Style Taijiquan and Xingyiquan under Ma Zhenzong (马振宗, 1910 – 1993). Mei was [...]
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