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Excellent news! 🙂

Hi Sifu:

Thank you for the guidance. It makes perfect sense. My turning punch is much better. Now practice and more practice.

Thanks,

Mark

Hi Mark and welcome to the forum family,

Firstly, I do like your way of getting to grips with the training, a good idea.

As for your question…

Let me start by saying that it is not the ‘feet’ that turn 45, but the hips.
You will probably find that the back foot does not turn as much as the front foot, or perhaps I should say, as much as the…[Read more]

I do tend to wait until the videos are all in and, then watch them together, this way I can see general consistencies of where things are good or may need work.

It won’t be long, good luck and thank you.

Sifu

Hi Tom,

Your post is now up, as promised.

Sifu

I should have replied to this lol. Maybe we should add a like button to the website. I don’t always want to reply lol. Anyways thanks Sifu, looking forward to the results.

HA!

Thank you Tom, I did remember actually. 🙂

I will pop something up tomorrow for you.

Sifu

Not the most effective medium, but as requested here is a reminder to create a video blog entry.

I have been involved Chinese Qi Gong for just under 30 years now, which incorporates many topics including:

The development/increase in Qi
Acupressure
Bone realignment
Herbal medicine
Strategic studies
Meditation
Feng Shui
Martial forms (animal based)

It’s my humble understanding that all are interwoven, and can only help to deepen the…[Read more]

An interesting topic, let’s see who comes forward???

And that last point is precisely why I’ve been studying TCM. I want to understand the physical mechanism that underpins what we’re learning here. To gain an insight into how to better myself that I may continue to learn well into the future.

Just wondering if there were any others here, too, that travel this well-trod path.

I often followed the idea that you cannot serve two masters (disciplines), although my thoughts on this have changed over the years.

Wing Chun to me is a natural understanding of your body and of the arts, therefore I do believe that we use it as a blueprint for all other styles.

If you remind me on Monday, I will make a video blog on this for…[Read more]

Sometimes it is nice to be able to repair an opponent after you have just destroyed them, joking aside though, there does tend to be an interest develop in those who decide to look after themselves through the arts, to want to take it further.

Often I find that this is just to acquire a deeper understanding of what you are doing already???

I did thank you and I’ll be watching it in the next few days! 🙂