Old Style – Feng Shou Chuan Shu and Old Style – Li Family Harmony Palm The more you understand about the Li Family Style stances and postures the better your Feng Shou and Harmony Palm will be. Posture is...
Articles for May 2016
Why all the different postures and stances?
Li Family Harmony Palm – Tai Chi Chuan and Old Style – Feng Shou Chuan Shu Why all the different postures and stances? First of all I’m asked what the difference is between the posture and the stance. In...
Old Style – Feng Shou Chuan Shu – Foot Flow Patterns
The Foot Flow Patterns we practice would never be used as a kick in that format. Why is this? Because they are the training drills, pure and simple. At the same time, they are not just drills as within...
Old Style – Feng Shou Chuan Shu
I started to learn martial arts in 1969. Most of the teachers I learned from understood their art and taught with integrity. But over the last decade something has happened to a lot of martial arts, they have moved...
What is the best way to practice the Li Family Art of K’ai Men?
Since it’s conception K’ai Men has been poked, prodded, disassembled, reassembled, yin-ed, yang-ed, practiced and experienced by knowledgeable and unknowledgeable people alike. Most Li Family schools tend to teach K’ai Men more like mainstream Yoga, which is fine and...
Yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi, what are the benefits?
Most people know about Yoga or Pilates or Tai Chi, and can tell you about the benefits of Yoga or Pilates, how good they are for your health, but that Tai Chi is just slow moving exercise for senior people. Pilates was invented...