Taijiquan and the Four Minute Kilometer

A while back I posted training diary, with an associated article, Goals. I haven’t updated the article in a while – been busy with a new baby and the usual work and training. So for the past couple of months I’ve been jogging around the lake (it’s about a kilometer) at a very leisurely pace. [...]

A Toast to Zenmindsword

A toast.. I didn’t know you were back. When you deleted your blog I thought we had lost a member of our community who cared. But alas.. okay, I’ve got to admit it – I feel left out. Not that I was ever “in”, but, in this particular case… aww heck, zenmindsword is back, people! [...]

DVD/VCD Review: Chen Style Taiji Quan New Frame Routine 1 by Chen Zheng-Lei

I bought this as a DVD on ebay. Once again, I bought from kungfu_tea001‘s online store – his prices and shipping are inexpensive and fast. This is a two-DVD set featuring Chen, Zheng-Lei instructing us on the New Frame, routine one, otherwise known as “Xin Jia Yi Lu” (新架一路). For the students of chinese out [...]

Quan Xue Chan Hui review, part 2

This is part two of “DVD/VCD Review: Chen Xiao-Wang “Internal Strength Learning Boxing and Coiling Slightly“. You can order the videos on kungfu_tea001′s ebay store. (DVD version | VCD Version) First let me say that this is the first dvd in a series of twenty six DVDs(!) in which Chen Xiao Wang completely teaches Chen [...]

DVD/VCD Review: Chen Xiao-Wang “Internal Strength Learning Boxing and Coiling Slightly”

First, the basics. I ordered this in VCD form (original, not a copy) instead of DVD. Same thing. Anyways, the seller on e-bay was kungfu_tea001 – he is in hong kong, but shipping was extremely fast, it arrived in something like 2 weeks. The item was listed in his auction as “Chen XiaoWang TaiChi:Internal Qi [...]