As much as it pains me to do this, I have to admit defeat. There’s an insurmountable obstacle in my … Continue reading “In Defense of the Status Quo” is Against Martial Ethics: Why I’m Expelling a Certain Student & Ending Their Serious Training
走轉裹翻穿撩提按為練劍要法八字走者行走步法也轉者左右旋轉也裹者手腕往裏裹勁也翻者手腕向外翻扭也穿者左右前後上下穿去也撩者或陰手或陽手望着前後撩去或半弧或圜形因式而出之也提者劍把往上提也按者手心裏邊向下按也 Walking, Turning, Wrapping, Overturning, Penetrating, Scooping, Lifting, & Depressing are the Eight Characters for the Essential Methods of Sword … Continue reading 孫氏八卦劍練劍要法八字/Sun Shi Bagua Jian Lian Jian Yao Fa Ba Zi – Sun Style Bagua Sword Eight Characters on Essential Methods of Training the Sword
第一路：柱捶摔落/First Road: Pillar Hammer Throw & Fall 第二路：馬式衝捶/Second Road: Horse Stance Thrusting Hammer 第三路：左右圈捶/Third Road: Left & Right Hook Punch … Continue reading 螳螂拳基本六路/Tanglangquan Jiben Liu Lu – Tanglangquan’s Basic Six Roads
There’s another ebook up on Gumroad: Liu Dekuan’s Baguazhang 64 Hands. Learn the essence of Northern Free Fighting with this … Continue reading Liu’s 64 Hands Straight Line Baguazhang
拳術為手上工夫，其手法之多，罄南山之竹不能盡書，今論僅十余則，知不免于蠡測管窺之誚，然五寸之矩，可盡天下之方，是在學者，舉一反三，于此十余手之中循環變化，自無儘期，如孩提之舉步，必逐一舉之，使一步未得穩，即中道而欲馬，幾何其不傾跌也哉，且如戚東牟所云，山東李半天之腿，鷹爪王之拿，千跌張之跌，張可敬之打，何嘗不以一著之妙，即名垂寰宇，學者果能于此數則之中，得一二手過人之處，安見不可出人頭地，不然則雖多亦奚以為。 This Boxing Art is Superior Hand Kung fu. It has many Hand Methods, & if you exhausted Nanshan’s bamboo … Continue reading 螳螂拳手法總論/Tanglangquan Shou Fa Zong Lun – Tanglangquan’s General Theory of Hand Methods
A new era dawns! I’m excited to announce that the first e-book, the Base Translation of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, … Continue reading The Base translation of The Thirty-Six Stratagems is here!
掤捋擠按須認真，上下相隨人難進。 Peng, Lu, Ji, & An must be genuinely understood, when Upper & Lower Mutually Follow people find Entering difficult. … Continue reading 孫氏太極拳參考資料: 推手歌訣/Sun Shi Taijiquan Can Kao Zi Liao: Tui Shou Gejue – Sun Style Taijiquan Reference Material: Pushing Hands Song Secret
擎引鬆放四字 Raise, Draw, Relax, Release; Four Characters 擎開彼勁借彼力。中有靈字。 Lift & Open his Jin to Borrow his Li. This relates to … Continue reading 孫氏太極拳參考資料: 撒放密訣/Sun Shi Taijiquan Can Kao Zi Liao: Safang Mijue – Sun Style Taijiquan Reference Material: The Secret Trick to Releasing
無極而太極。太極動而生陽，動極而靜，靜而生陰。靜極復動。一動一靜，互為其根；分陰分陽，兩儀立焉。 Wuji becomes Taiji. Taiji moves & gives birth to Yang, movement at its extremity becomes stillness, & stillness gives … Continue reading 太極圖說/Taiji Tu Shuo – Taiji Diagram Explanation
•踏掌/Ta Zhang – Compressing Palm 三角步法走四面,八方八打不滯慢。 迎招踏它頭面胸,坐身踏其腰胯肚。 Triangle Footwork Walks the Four Sides, the Eight Directions & Eight Strikes aren’t … Continue reading 八卦掌八大掌法練藝歌/Baguazhang Ba Da Zhang Fa Lian Yi Ge – Baguazhang’s Eight Big Palms Method Training Skill Song
Lessons Learned in the World of Martial Arts 