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LoL...if you say that William Chen is your top Tai Chi master then you guys need help.... William CC Chen was shunned throughout many Kung Fu tournaments because we know he is a joke....

Chen Taiji Chuan has Cannon Fist in it but a higher level of Chen Taiji!! You guys are delusional and are ignorant....

LoL...where do you Caucasian white-folks get these stories of another culture martial arts?!?! I have never heard of this version of Chen and Yang Tai Chi of Yang LuChan!!

Taiji was NOT named by Yang Luchan but the name "Taiji" was given by people who observed the Chen Village martial arts when in combat.

The spear trains the off hand where to be in open hand fighting.

I read that Zhang San Feng, learned the 13 posture chi kung from a famous hermit poet named Ma(?), and put it together to form tai chi. Of course, hermits were not keen on teaching.

This is awesome

Yap Sui Ting is the CMC person who took it to Malaysia

Great stuff. Is there instructional material on the eight energy patterns and the practices available for purchase?

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thank you! Very Interesting!

wow this claims a lot of fights but cant even remember names but he can do a docu ytv but cant remember nothing ? hmmmmm delusional imho

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Hey guys, Master Allen, so glad to have tuned in, especially to this episode. I lived in NYC from the age of 2-5, then again when I was 12 in 1972, moving in with my father who lived in the West Village, and had the good fortune to be a minor part of some of the stories you told about the scene in the city. I studied with Ron Rosen, Chaka Zulu, and eventually, Taiji with Ken Van Sickle, one of the second wave of teachers Professor Cheng trained at Shr Jung, and went to the open push hands practices he started at Don Ahn’s place. After leaving the city in 1991, I commuted a bit to take a few classes and workshops with Mr. Chan, and fell in love with Bagua. Got to meet Novell, and came and observed that cool tourney you described where he ran the Bagua event. Much fun. I was also there that day in 1974 assisting Sifu Rosen in his (brief) demo: he did a “soft” break of a stack of burning boards that I got in a bit of trouble for over soaking with lighter fluid; his hand caught on fire from the excess. And yes, the Casal Vs Little John Davis kung fu vs karate fight was (and remains) one of the most amazing things I've ever seen; seeing Grand Sifu Greenstein bend rebar over the bridge if his nose and put spikes into a humongous chunk of wood was pretty astonishing too. One match that took place that day you didn't report on, another I'll never forget. 260 lb Joe Hess vs Beth Bussy(?)…a slender karate-ka that Joe must have outweighed by 150 pounds or something. The original woman on the Man Vs Woman bout didn't show, and Beth bravely (but unrealistically) volunteered to take her place. He let her flounce around a bit and then knocked her cold. Don't remember if it was a hand or a foot that smacked her upside the head, but she dropped like a stone. And Sifu revived her. I was pretty proud. That's the day I also first saw Master Chen have a big motorcycle drive over his abdomen with a big guy driving it. I'm pretty sure he first had a slab of concrete layed on him first, which the bike then drove over. Subsequently, it was smashed with a sledge hammer. I really didn't know what the heck I was seeing, and couldn't at all connect it to the weird form they all did together first. Didn't your first teacher, Jan Lang study with Master Chen first? Ken took me to see Kumar at a demo he did at PS 41 where he kicked Jan full force in the gut several times to demo internal power. Jan hopped back to his feet after going flying each time, looking just as happy as before. But Joe Zeisky (good friends with Ken) was also there, and took Kumar's challenge of anyone in the house to attack him. Kumar was rather astonishing to watch, but Joe got a piece of him that day and I'm pretty sure broke one of Kumar's ribs. I could go on and on about the whole Nisei crew, Soke Zulu, the Taiji farm, and all I encountered in those halcyon days, but I'll spare us all. Much love, keep on whirling!

There is more of the history of Marshall Yue Fei Shi Wei Yu Long

They don't do more Xin Yi because it is more demanding, a Muslim Chinese technology

Hello, my opinion is that in the research you present, there is a lack of people who trained with Hello, my opinion is that in the research you present, there is a lack of people who trained with traditional lineages in Tai Chi Chuan, Pakwa Chang, Hsing Yi Chuan and Hello, my opinion is that in the research you present, there is a lack of people who trained with traditional lineages in Tai Chi Chuan, Pakwa Chang, Hsing Yi Chuan and Qigong in China. such as Kenneth Cohen, Erle Montaigue, Bruce Kumar Frantzis, Tom Bisio.Qigong in China. such as Kenneth Cohen, Erle Montaigue, Bruce Kumar Frantzis, Tom Bisio. lineages in Tai Chi Chuan, Pakwa Chang, Hsing Yi Chuan and Qigong in China. such as Kenneth Cohen, Erle Montaigue, Bruce Kumar Frantzis, Tom Bisio.

I ve practised sun lu tang form for about 15 years ' tim cartnell has correct photo's of his form ' the hands actually TOUCH the head and groin area on the body and the form is very tight with multi millimetre fa jing shaking in most of the moves ' the form is really good for the bones and tendons and moves fast compared to yang cheng form ' Master suns photo is in some Japanese dojos when he beat the champion of karate and judo '

There are fun stories though I'm not sure how much is fact and how much is myth. Fun to listen to though.

An interesting podcast guys.46:30 Excellent points and could not agree more. You can only use any martial art if you train it as a martial art ergo the fighting aspects and absolutely the five word secret strategy is paramount for Tai Chi Chuan at all levels of fighting ability. This might be of interest for yourselves and your followers. th-cam.com/video/7PrDOI6A0DE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=LKR5EF5IQfEwg-nF

I love hearing the old stories of the masters and their lives/ history. I love stories about Old China. I wonder where these stories come from and how accurate they are in terms of factual, provable history. Yet, I'm also aware of how different Chinese History is recorded to how Western history is recorded and the huge influence of culture. This is not to denigrate Chinese history and how it is recorded - all history is perverted in positive ways towards the ruler/ winner being to ones recording the events but Chinese culture is paramount in its history; How many masters of the traditional arts; fought a Russian boxer/ wrestler, how many took on all comers and beat the westerners, how many trained with someone of auspicious nature that links them to something greater, How many were exemplarily in culture and attitude, were skilled in calligraphy, medicine, poems and martial arts . Pretty much all of the Masters of Old including up to Wang Xiang Zhai. These stories are famous and all very similar. The problem with history is the lack of verifiable evidence and the issue with Chinese history is the difference from Western history. So for Chinese people they understand the history and its importance through the lens of culture more than it being strictly historically accurate. The West is not interested in accuracy but from a propaganda point of view. I think Sun Lu Tang had a greater chance to publish his written works more than many of the previous masters. Also, much like in the west, all Chinese are famous for something, or want to be famous for something. hence the development of styles. For a style to be considered Tai Chi Chuan it has to obey the Internal principals as understood in Tai Chi Chuan - I'm guessing that Sun style does that. All the Internal styles of martial arts have the Internal principals but apply them slightly differently yet within the margins in order for them to not only be internal but also for them to work internally Fascinating podcast Subscribed for interest. :)

I live in Southeastern Michigan I'd like to try to find an instructor. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Xing yi quan

Sun Lu Tang....Soon Lou Tahng..... not Dang

Great lecture but the music at the end LOL ,...... yikes

50:23 It was actually a book on Bagua Spear, not Xingyi Spear. This was told to me by Per Nyfelt. One of Sun's daughter's disciples.

Yang Lu Chan didn't invent Taiji... That would be Chen Wang Ting... Yang learned the first road of Chen taiji and created Yang style but Taiji was around long before he was born.

Very nice and interesting podcast. Thanks for share.

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this is basically nonsense as bagua is a martial art the i ching idea is just grafted on by pseudo intellectuals and has no influence on the actual martial art pure mental masturbation

Shifu Frank Allen is a wizard, enough said.

23:36 the question i've had for the past few days regarding evasion in kung fu (particularly ima) was answered here. and 31:40 lmao I've thought this a lot over the past years. different butts are going to appear differently externally even if the same internal conditions are met. i think this is actually pretty important when teaching across different demographics with different body shape distributions. (most important point was the specific emphasis on the sacral region the moment before in the podcast though.)

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My teacher,( father of my teacher), who passed in 2004, had eight great teachers before he met master Wang. One of the eight foundational teachers was sun lu tang. He told stories about them. One that I remember,( my second king fu book ever at age 13 was sun lu tangs xing yi book), was about a argument master sun got into. He declined the offer of a fight. My teacher said that he didn’t have robust fighting skill in practical life. That was a statement from his student , Han xing qiao. Han studied xing yi, ba gua, tai chi, shuai jiao, ba gi, And then yiquan. He taught at Jing an temple in shanghai, the first mixed art school in the history of China. There is a newspaper article about him and his brother at that time. He was very young to be teaching, perhaps 16,17. He was already so skilled that he was honored to be a teacher. There is nothing better than first hand accounts. How much better can you get? So much of “ history” is written by people very distant from the moment or the truth.

Love the Podcast Thank you keep it 💯 up .

When did New Yorker's turn into such punks... Lolol.... Thank God we moved to Florida eight years ago... 😀

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Enjoyed these podcasts while they lasted.

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Awesome interview ...cool music !

Yes, please do an episode on the Nine Palaces system! :-)

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Great content! Thank you!

Awesome podcast. Love hearing stories of Sun Lu Tang.

Cool to hear this from the perspective of Wu, Yang etc. I notice the tellings of Taiji history are often limited to a particular family's experience and lineage; I was surprised to hear no mention of Chen Fake etc when speaking about Beijing.

really great episode on the weaponry. The variety of the circular blades/double weapons is a amazing, xingyi sun moon blades, wind fire wheel blades etc. The photos of some of the beijing cheng ting hua schools have a wide variety of weapons including the tiger twin hook blades.

Hoping you guys post another video soon. I'm loving this channel!

Interesting topic, buddhism came to China during the Tang dynasty. How about islam and islamic long fist and hsing yi would be Interesting to hear about it. I know that the muslim minority has existed since the tang dynasty with many prevalent martial artists also serving the emperor in the court. Similar the tibetan styles are rarely heared of. Would be my question for future podcast, I follow you guys. /taiji practitioner from Sweden

iit is worth buying a Sun Lutang book or a book about Sun Lutang?, In Amazon there are three book of Sun Lutang, one about Tai ji, other Ba Gua and another Xing YI. Do you recommend learn Sun Style Tai chi? or Is it a mix of all three internal arts ? Great program of podcast thanks so much from Spain

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