I met up with an old friend who I hadn’t seen for some time. We had had the same teacher over 20 years ago. He had moved on and had had numerous new teachers since then. He had been...
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Stances and Posture – understanding them more
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...
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...
Tai Chi Chuan – Who’s Right?
Every day I hear more and more Tai Chi groups having a go at each other for these reasons: that they are not teaching Tai Chi, that their Tai Chi is no good and our Tai Chi is older...
Tai Chi – Double Weighting – Myth Or Not?
First, what my Yang Base Tai Chi teachers and friends tell me: When playing the Tai Chi form you must avoid double weighting, so they say do not have your body weight 50 / 50 on your feet. Having...
Chi Energy – Does it Exist?
Sheng Chi Energy, does it exist? Well, this will depend on whom you ask. It has been the mainstay of Chinese Medicine for thousands of years. I think the biggest problem with the idea of Chi energy is actually...
