By Dave Barrett Association Journal Editor Master Ma Hailong was born in 1935 into one of China’s most distinguished martial arts families. His great-grandfather, Wu Quanyou (1834-1902), was an officer of the Imperial Guards Brigade in the Forbidden City. … Continue reading
A conversation with Master Wu Wenhan By Dave Barrett, Translated by Yang Jun Dave Barrett: In America many people are unfamiliar with the Wu/Hao style of Taijiquan. I wanted to begin by asking you to describe the differences between Yang … Continue reading
By Dave Barrett, translated by Master Yang Jun Master Chen Zhenglei was born in 1949 into a family with over 300 years of martial arts tradition. He is widely recognized as one of the leading exponents of Chen Style Taijiquan … Continue reading
The Third Rep: 2004-08-31 by Jerry Karin We publish here a translation of the second section of the first chapter of Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan, a seminal 1963 work by Shen Jiazhen and Gu Liuxin (this part was written … Continue reading
The Third Rep: 2004-01-02 by Jerry Karin We have been having an interesting discussion on the discussion forum regarding the meaning of the fourth of Yang Chengfu’s Ten Essentials: distinguish full and empty. To shed more light on this subject, … Continue reading
The Third Rep: 2003-05-06 by Jerry Karin I’ve been reading a great deal in Chinese and have had a lot of luck in finding things I wanted to read, chiefly due to the kind offices of Louis Swaim. I am … Continue reading
The Third Rep: 2002-08-26 by Jerry Karin Much of the literature available in English about the topic of silk reeling is of the puff piece sort, leaving one with the impression that silk reeling is important but failing to provide … Continue reading
Master Yang Zhenduo is proud to announce and acknowledge the following people as his Disciples. These individuals have studied and promoted tai chi for many years. List edited 5/11/2015 Disciples Name List, 杨振铎传承弟子 Yang, Jun 杨军 Yang, Bin 杨斌 Hu, … Continue reading
The Third Rep: 2001-02-12 by Jerry Karin Well, time to whip out the old notepad and scribble a new third rep column. Having had my posterior flamed from here to Yongnian over a previous column entitled Some Other Stuff and … Continue reading
From Yang Zhenduo’s1997 Zhong Guo Yang Shi Taiji, pp. 33-36Translation by Louis Swaim The palm methods are a sub-category of the hand methods. The palm methods can be broadly divided into two classes, comprising approximately nine types. The first class, … Continue reading
