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.
Showing posts with label Tai Chi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tai Chi. Show all posts
Monday, June 6, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Episode 8 - Interview with Sifu Stephen Murphy of Mystics Athletic School
In this interview I get the chance to ask my own Kung Fu instructor, Sifu Stephen Murphy about his 27 years of teaching traditional Chinese Kung Fu. He tells of his struggle with cancer, onset at the age of 23, and his introduction into the world of Chinese healing and internal arts or "the art of good health".
Sifu Steve talks about the mixture of martial arts styles taught at Mystics Athletic School, his introduction to the martial arts and experience training with Donnie Yen's mother, Bow Sim Mark. He also talks about the abundance of knowledge there is to be had in the world and how that helps us to always remain a beginner.
Learn more about Sifu Stephen Murphy at his lineage page or at Mystics Athletic School
Sifu Steve talks about the mixture of martial arts styles taught at Mystics Athletic School, his introduction to the martial arts and experience training with Donnie Yen's mother, Bow Sim Mark. He also talks about the abundance of knowledge there is to be had in the world and how that helps us to always remain a beginner.
Learn more about Sifu Stephen Murphy at his lineage page or at Mystics Athletic School
Sunday, May 15, 2011
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:
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
Monday, April 25, 2011
Episode 3 - Interview with Weapons Master and Pankration Master Spencer Gee
Master Spencer Gee has had extensive training in several martial arts styles from Tai Chi to Filipino weapons arts. In this interview we talk about his experience in Pankration, the original MMA, or the "Martial Art of All Powers" which dates back to ancient Greece in the 6th century B.C. As a very scientific and calculated style of fighting, Master Gee speaks of how he uses these teaching principles to teach many different arts including T'ai Chi.
He also talks about how other disciplines like tennis and ballroom dancing have contributed to his martial arts training and teaching methods. Hear about how the creativity encouraged by these other disciplines contributes to the artistic and expressive side of the martial arts.
He also talks about how other disciplines like tennis and ballroom dancing have contributed to his martial arts training and teaching methods. Hear about how the creativity encouraged by these other disciplines contributes to the artistic and expressive side of the martial arts.
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