On the heels of Wang's thoughts on taiji comes a great translation by Josh Stout over at EF. I suggest reading the whole thing but here below is an excerpt. Yet boxing forms and techniques are what are known as artificial boxing moves 所謂人造拳架子是也. Since the advent of the Manchurian Qing dynasty some three hundred years [...]...

This was posted by Spring over at EF. It's an ….um….interesting read: As masters of the original 'Taijiquan', I should recommend the Yang brothers Shaohou and Chengfu. They are also old friends of mine, thus I know that this boxing really has some knowledge of mechanics, but out of one hundred persons not even one [...]...

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Today's post vanished into the ether. I'll have to re-type it. The perils of blogging. Instead, here's a portrait of Hong Yi-xiang I haven't seen before:...

As I said yesterday, the implications of looking at IMAs in terms of left vs. right brain activities are enormous. And Jill Bolte Taylor's experience as someone who came from a very left brain perspective that gained a new understanding of the right brain's importance is a powerful message to doubters. Look at what she [...]...