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
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
Chen Shi Taijiquan Gongfu Jia Workshop #1 South UK
Marin Spivack will be teaching the first Chen Shi Taijiquan Gongfu Jia workshop in south UK, August 3-6 2018. Details and registration info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/961536894015600/
Welcome to an Old Friend
Saturday we had cause for celebration as we welcome another long term compatriot in the Taijiquan gongfu pursuit through the door to deeper practice and preservation of this ages old art. Nuri Friedlander has been a hard working student for
New additions
Yesterday we had the good fortune to welcome Yu Dechang to our gongfu family. He has been a very hard working and dedicated student and shows great promise to develop gongfu and carry on this rare art. His dedication and
Chen Taijiquan Gongfu Jia; Roots Determine the Genetics of Trunk and Branches
The reason for the stance methods, and the low stance methods is not (in our line) solely due to the common talking point that it is for strength, or even the very true point that it develops root. In our
Taijigongfu power
T. Klugman practices Lan Zhayi absorbing local vibes.
Through the Looking Glass of Gongfu
One of the special qualities of Taijiquan gongfu, is the ‘through the looking glass’ aspect of the practice. Regardless of the ever-ongoing debate about the meaning of ‘internal’ in internal arts, there is a very obvious and easy to grasp
Beijing 2013
Writing from Beijing, again. Revisiting old friends, old places, old feelings, and rekindling and examining old thoughts. Something as simple and powerful as a smell can return one to the root and seed of gongfu acquisition, if that is how
