Episode 9 - Interview with Dr Yang, Jwing-Ming of YMAA

Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming works with a select few disciples of Chinese kung fu at his retreat center in the mountains of northern California where the culture and traditions of the ancient Chinese arts are preserved through an intensive 10-year training curriculum.
I speak with Dr Yang about his influences and his beloved masters in China with whom he grew up learning kung fu. We talk about the differences between training in old China and training in other parts of the world. Dr Yang tells of how he reluctantly took up Tai Chi Chuan at the young age of 16 to thwart illness brought on by hunger and malnourishment as he was raised as one of a family of 9 children, often eating only one meal a day. He has since moved to the U.S. to get his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and opened Yang's Martial Arts Association in Humboldt County, California.
Find out more about Dr Yang at his lineage page:
http://www.maLineage.com/martial-artists/Yang-Jwing-Ming
Or at his website: www.YMAA.com
Dr. Yang is currently accepting applicants for his next round of disciples and can be contacted through the website above.

Episode 7 - The Greatness of Kung Fu - An interview with Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit

Grandmaster Wong is a 4th generation successor of the renowned Southern Shaolin monastery in Putian, China. Living in Malaysia, he travels the world spreading the "greatness of kung fu" throughout the world through the Shaolin Wahnam institute. Learn about the masters Sifu Wong studied under and hear stories of how he trained and how he has been working to improve Kung Fu teaching methods to share his art with the world.
We talk about how Chi Kung can help to heal today's modern society and how "good health is natural", as well as how Kung Fu training has evolved in recent times.
Grandmaster Wong has authored several internationally renowned books on Tai Chi, Shaolin Kung Fu and Chi Kung:

• The Art of Chi Kung
• Chi Kung for Health and Vitality
• The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu
• The Complete Book of Tai Chi Chuan
• The Complete Book of Zen
• Introduction to Shaolin Kungfu
• Master Answers Series — The Shaolin Arts
• Sukhavati — Going to Heaven as Taught by the Buddha
• The Complete Book of Chinese Medicine
• The Complete Book of Shaolin

Find more information about Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit at these websites:

• Shaolin Wahnam Institute
• Good Health Home Page
• Shaolin Kungfu Chi-Kung and Zen
• Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) Home Page