What is stay loose? What is fast? What is slow? What is sour? What is sweet? Are you rich? There are lots of words that seem to describe what you mean but doesn’t exactly. Everything is relative. So it is
Tools
From the outside looking into the martial arts world, training is about sharpening the tools you need for the purpose of self defence. For example, your fist and palms for punching, your feet and knees for kicking, grabs, locks and
Appreciating the waveform
Enjoy some incredible videos of the waveform. Most of you have seen this video already but nonetheless, here it is as a reminder. Exercise All the above video share a waveform in one way or the other. Please share your
Internal style or not
Chinese often classify martial arts as internal or external styles. In mandarin, internal style is pronounced as neijia. Here is a little bit of history behind this classification from wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijia As you can see, the definition is less than
Use both lanes!
Long time ago, I went down to Disney World with a few of my friends from Windsor Ontario. We were still in college and of course short on cash. So instead of taking our time driving down, we did an
The LHBF basic form (築基 Zhú Jī)
Zhú Jī (築基) in Chinese means “building the foundation”. The following are a list of different versions of “traditional” liuhebafa. The order is not important and neither am I favoring/endorsing any specific ones. I capitalized the surname because in Chinese,
Happy Gilmore and more
Video week on a few sports involving swings in slow motion: Exercise These videos have lots of things at play there. What did you see?
Do I teach traditional kung fu?
I get that question a lot during the start of the season. Here is my two cents: Which part of tradition are you interested in? Do you mean the oriental macho husband and submissive female tradition? No, I got two
Two very different use of ball
A rhythmic gymnastics ball routine A taichi ball form Exercise See the similarity as well as the difference between the two. Which do you like more and why?
Apples and oranges
Comparing apples and oranges – The idiom, comparing apples and oranges, refers to the apparent differences between items which are popularly thought to be incomparable or incommensurable, such as apples and oranges. The idiom may also be used to indicate