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Learning the Yang Ban-hou Taijiquan Nei Jia

Yang Ban-Hou was the son of the founding father of Yang style Taijiquan, Yang Lu-Chan. He lived 1837–1890 and was well known for his hard style of training and bellicose temper. There is not a lot written about Yang Ban-Hou but if you are interested you can find out a little more about him via the wulinmingshi.com where there is an interesting article about training in this lineage in the Yongnian area of China.

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Chen Zhenglei discussing qi, connection, micro and macro cosmic orbit

Chen Zhenglei talking informally, apparently at a workshop, about qi, breathing, the micro and macro cosmic circulations, and sounds when doing fajin. He is especially erudite on the subject of feeling qi and feeling the connection. He explains that until you make the connection you shouldn’t try to hard to […]

Two Gold Medals – a first competition!
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Two Gold Medals – a first competition!

Last October, 2011 I had the pleasure to attend a competition held by the www.cfws.net (Chinese Folk Wushu Society) at Xianghe, near Beijing. I was escorted by one of my Tai Chi teachers, Master Mei Juan Luo who had been invited to sit in as a judge on the higher […]

Qigong in China a first post by the author!
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Qigong in China a first post by the author!

Welcome to Qigong in China. As you can see the website is still being developed but I hope top have some content here very soon. Just need to sort out all the backstage stuff first.