After a long year+ of covidtimes, bleakness and waiting we are starting to emerge and begin to practice (together) again. We had an excellent long weekend of training form and applications, sorely missed, a group of new Tudi, and many
Visiting Beijing, Shifu, and Friends 2019
Having just returned from my first visit to Beijing in 5 years I have a lot to think about. It was a specifically long and tiring trip as I first went to Poole, UK, accepted a very promising apprentice and
New View on Old Ties
It’s been 5 years since I have seen Shifu. Life moves slowly and flies by. Beijing changed yet also not at all. In some ways things really come full circle in ways impossible to predict. Shifu was in very good
Poole U.K. June 2019 Gongfu Jia Workshop a Sweaty Success
For 8 days we trained, joked, storied, ate & drank. It was a great time and a lot of territory was covered. We had many returning and some new attendees. Hopefully the wait will not be so long for the
Marin Spivack Chen Shi Taijiquan Gongfu Jia Workshop Poole UK #2
With dates tentatively set we are now in the planning phase of the next Poole, UK Chen Gongfu Jia workshop. Comments, discussion and expression of interest welcome here, but arrangements should be made through Taichipoole above. Registration was already
Marin Spivack UK Workshop 2018 – My Experience, By Duncan Andrew
Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in Marin Spivack’s UK seminar, and thought I should share my experience. Previously I had nearly 6 years of Chen Village taiji experience, and for two months prior to the workshop I
August 2018 Poole, UK Workshop a Great Event
This August was a wonderful event, exhausting, inspiring, sweaty, bitter, affirming and stimulating. The attendees, around 11-12 of them of varying levels of experience and age all worked very hard and did well clarifying their understandings of the practice methods.
Remembering My Father Chen Zhaokui, by Chen Yu
Translated by Linda Yeo (Nairobi), much thanks! Photos not exactly in original order- sorry. Part 1: Time has flown. It has been 30 years since my late father left me. Opening the dust of memories past, the past is like
Chen Shi Taijiquan Gongfu Jia Workshop, Fort Collins CO #3
This workshop is (was) number 3 in an ongoing training series. This is basically something of a branch school at this point as these folks are very committed and many of whom have been training together for years and were
Marin Spivack interviewed by Israeli Podcast 2018, 3 Parts
This is a multi-part interview by a Podcast in Israel called “No Wax Needed” that focuses on broad variety of martial arts and martial arts related subjects. In this case their audience is not specially focused on Chen Taijiquan, or
