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May 12, 2010 on 12:28 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Tai chi and Life

http://hsot-ma.blogspot.com/2010/03/wolfe-lowenthal-on-balance.html

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“Lei tai platform fighting is open to all Chinese styles. It is proving ground for – monkey vs crane, tai chi vs shaolin, wutang vs NWA.”- matt
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Movie review- Needle through brick

I really liked how the older generation masters noticed how modern wushu made the younger generation very physically fit and athletic with kung fu basics, while the younger generation realized that they can not always do the physically challenging modern wushu and appreciated Traditional kung fu masters and desired to learn Traditional.-matt
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Primal display in bagua?

matt- Well when I think of primal reflex and bagua…I could only think of monkey slaps and baguazhang (zhang=palm) palm strikes is bagua’s signature weapon of choice after all the evasive spinning and circling.