This is Part One of a three part biographical sketch of Sun Lutang. Also see Part Two and Part Three. Introduction: Why Sun Lutang? One of the persistent problems that I see in amateur discussions of “Chinese martial studies” is... Continue Reading →
Introduction New Years is a great time to reflect on where we have been, as well as where we are going. As such, we would like to announce our pick for the "Top Chinese Martial Arts Webpage of the Year... Continue Reading →
Introduction The New Years holiday is a great time to take a moment to reflect on where we have been in the last year. After all, the first step in making a useful resolution is to engage in a little... Continue Reading →
Introduction New Years is upon us and that means that it is time to sit back and reflect on the year's accomplishments and events. This is particularly important in the martial arts as only through studying our actions and responses... Continue Reading →
Meet Bernard, the Kung Fu Elf With only a week left until Christmas it is time to finish off that holiday shopping list. Martial artists are hard to shop for and students of martial studies doubly so. Who knows... Continue Reading →
The Traditional Chinese Martial Arts: Something that Young Adults used to do? Globalization and technology are having an unmistakable effect on martial arts around the world, and the Chinese martial arts are no exception. Of course this will not come... Continue Reading →
Our image for this week (two of them actually) come from J. A. Hammerton's encyclopedic People of All Nations (volume 5, circa 1920). I don't normally condone cutting up of old books. I had actually attempted to buy just the... Continue Reading →
Defining Your Space In addition to researching the martial arts, I also practice Wing Chun (Ip Man/Ip Ching lineage for those who are interested). I recently started to teach a couple of people and things have been going well enough... Continue Reading →
Jingwu (sometimes romanized as Chinwoo) is one of the greatest movements to emerge in the modern (post-1850) history of the traditional Chinese martial arts. Casual observers will likely be aware of at least the broad outlines of the organization’s foundation... Continue Reading →
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