Innholdsfortegnelse for May - June 2018 i Kung Fu Tai Chi

Dear loyal readers - this is our last bimonthly issue for a while. In order to stay viable and meet the demands of the ever dwindling newsstands, we must scale back our yearly production schedule. Starting with our next issue, we will publish Kung Fu Tai Chi quarterly. That will be our Summer issue. It will be available two months following this issue, taking the place of what would have been our July+August issue. Our Fall issue will follow three months later, completing our transition to quarterly. But take heart. To compensate for our reduction in frequency, we will be expanding our page count for our quarterly issues. In this way, coupled with our increased free content on KungFuMagazine.com, we’ll actuallys bring you more content than ever before per year.…

Shaolin Kung Fu encompasses a wide spectrum of different styles. Nowadays, most people think of bald robed monks from the original Shaolin Temple on Songshan mountain range in Henan, China. Shaolin’s warrior monks began touring the world and disseminating their Kung Fu in the mid-’90s, and over the last two decades the Kung Fu of the Shaolin Temple of China, also known as Songshan Shaolin Kung Fu, has spread exponentially. However, with over a millennium-and-a-half years of history, there are many other styles that originated at Shaolin Temple, distinct from what the monks promulgate. These styles rightfully bear the name. For several decades prior to Shaolin’s globetrotting monks, Bak Sil Lum was the dominant style representing Shaolin outside of China. Bak Sil Lum (北少林) literally means "Northern Shaolin" in Cantonese.…

One of the distinctive qualities of Chinese Archery is the use of thumb rings. Almost every museum with Chinese artifacts will have some thumb rings in their collection, often made of jade. However, jade and semi-precious stone thumb rings were more about adornment than practicality because the material is too smooth. Bone or other porous materials were more common for actual combat archers. Thumb rings are used throughout many traditions of Asian archery such as in Korea, Mongolia and India. Thumb rings give the archer a more secure grip on a knocked arrow, which is critical when moving on a battlefield or shooting from horseback. The earliest example of a Chinese thumb ring was found in the tomb of one of China’s many famous women warriors, Lady Fu Hao (died…

To make it to ten years in anything today is no easy feat. Fads a come and go faster than a spinning fidget spinner (remember those?). In today’s fast-paced world of quick social media hits, it’s hard to make something last anymore. It’s even harder to have something grow year after year, but that’s exactly what we have done with our Tiger Claw Elite KungFuMagazine.com Championship. It started out as a way for us at Tiger Claw to give back to the local community, a place to showcase skills and compete against other skills. It has turned into an event that brings people from around the country and even around the world to San Jose, California, for a celebration of Kung Fu and Tai Chi. Every year we increase our…

Master Kenny Perez is a lifelong martial artist who started his journey into Chinese martial arts in the early ‘70s under highly respected Kung Fu masters Augustine Fong and Douglas L. Wong. He later became the first non-Asian student of the legendary Wushu Grandmaster Wu Bin (March+April 2007 cover master 吴彬), whom he has followed for 37 years, and is the only American certified with the 8th duanwei (段位) under him. Master Perez has been involved in the promotion of Wushu in every imaginable way – from Beijing to Berlin – through competitions, demonstrations, seminars, videos, books, movies, television, stage, gaming, and more. He is undoubtedly a man of lofty goals, on a mission, and well aware of all aspects surrounding traditional and contemporary Wushu. Perez’s personal experiences around the…

Within the field of ancient Chinese weaponry, the coin was arguably the most unassuming and inconspicuous of all weapons. Yet, as simple as it may have appeared, a rather sophisticated methodology surrounded the skill of street savvy coin throwing which is still very relevant to traditional Kung Fu training today. Origins As a martial device, the coin (chin in Cantonese 錢) is classified under the category of hidden weapons (am hei 暗器). For the most part, concealed weapons were projectiles, or objects that could be thrown or launched from an undetected position. The forms of am hei ranged from the familiar to obscure, such as the flying dart (tyut sau biu 脫手鏢), the rope dart (sing biu 繩鏢), and the iron toad (tit sim cheui 鐵蟾蜍). While no particular individual…

A recent example that comes to mind took place while drinking some strong Chinese wine at a dinner meeting in Beijing. After the group took pictures together, one of the guys, a Korean movie director now working in China, grabbed me in a friendly manner and pulled me close to stand next to him in the picture. I was at a distance, and when he pulled me forcefully, I temporarily lost my balance, but reacted by taking a big step backwards in the direction of the pull. My rear foot then instinctively shot back in the direction of the pull and happened to slam into his thigh, which stabilized me while knocking him off balance. I wound up in a kind of modified front stance. It is no coincidence that…

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Length: 19 ¼” Weight: 1 lb. Possibly late Qing Dynasty (1636–1912 CE) or Republic of China period (1912-1949 CE) This matched pair of short hard whips is small yet practical. The rods and guards are made of a heavy brassy metal that is blackened with a dark protective coating. The brassiness of the metal is only visible on the high wear points of the rods. Each rod is hand filed, and close examination reveals that this was done without a lathe. The guards are circular with a small inner ring hand-carved into the rod side of each one. The handles are made from two pieces of darkly-stained wood – a cylindrical piece that comprises the grip and a small rounded piece that serves as the pommel cap. These are also…

Within Traditional Chinese Medicine philosophy, the first period (4/4–5/5) of this horoscope is the transition from spring to summer. The second period (5/5–6/5) is summer. The first period is ruled by liver and gall bladder, and spleen and stomach, so beware of maladies of the liver, gall, and digestive system. Nourish the liver and strengthen the spleen and stomach. Previous digestive ailments may flare up again. The summer period is ruled by the fire element and the heart and small intestine channels. The heart governs mind and spirit, as well as blood circulation. If the heart is overheated, it can disturb the mind, cause “heat disease” and strain the cardiovascular system. Nourish the heart and clear away the heat. Heed the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine: “Winter ailments are healed…

Tai Chi and Veterans Affairs Program The Department of Veterans Affairs in Murfreesboro Tennessee now offers the only adaptive Tai Chi class in the U.S.A. for veterans. A special pilot program, launched two years ago by Dr. Guo Zibin, aspires to offer free Tai Chi lessons to veterans through VA programs. A paper published in December 2016, Feasibility, qualitative findings and satisfaction of a brief Tai Chi mind–body programme for veterans with post-traumatic stress symptoms (Complementary Medicine, Barbara L Niles, et.al.) suggested that Tai Chi was a beneficial therapy for PTSD. Dr. Eric Schoomaker, the former United States Army lieutenant general who served as the 42nd Surgeon General of the United States Army and Commanding General of the United States Army Medical Command, endorsed Tai Chi along with Qigong, acupuncture…

Originally rendered in the Hokkien dialect, these couplets extracted from the oral transmissions of Dishuquan provide a vivid description of a Dog Boxing expert engaging in combat. 手是罗汉身如龙，腿似虎尾步象犬， 达摩坐禅蝴蝶腿，活龙伏虎桩似狗。 “With the hands of an arhat and a body like a dragon, with legs that shake like a tiger tail and stances that resemble a dog. In Bodhidharma’s sitting meditation and delivering butterfly leg kicks, a dog-like living dragon standing in tiger-taming stance.”…

Archery is one of the most revered disciplines in the Chinese martial arts. It was classified as one of the Six Arts (liu yi 六藝) in the Rites of Zhou (周禮), one of the fundamental canons of Confucianism from the Zhou dynasty (1122–256 BCE). Alongside Archery (she 射), the Six Arts included Rites (li 禮), Music (yue 樂), Charioteering (yu 御), Calligraphy (shu 書), and Mathematics (shu 數). These six arts were the measure of the man – a man who could master all six was the definition of the perfect gentleman. For many successive dynasties, archery skills remained critical tests for China’s rigorous military exams. The art of Chinese archery is rarely practiced anymore, but now there's a growing movement to reclaim China's illustrious heritage of Traditional Archery and…

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Jin (金 1st tone) means ‘gold’ or ‘golden’. Gou (狗 3rd tone) means ‘dog’. Kai (開 1st tone) means ‘open’, ‘begin’ or ‘start’. And yun (運 4th tone) means ‘luck’ or ‘fortune’. This can be translated simply as ‘Golden Dog begins golden luck.’ There actually aren’t that many idioms about dogs in Chinese, so this is a general reference to 2018, the Year of the Dog. The inscription to the left reads Wuxu nian, yi yue (戊4戌1年2壹1月4). Wuxu refers to the date, the 5th of 10 celestial stem and the 11th of terrestrial branches, and nian means ‘year’. Yi yue means ‘first moon’ or January. The characters to the far left form Grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng’s signature. Grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng (涂金盛) was the cover master on the March+April 2003 issue of…