I'm not his representative, but I do know him. I'm commenting on the long-winded situation on the internet by accentuation. He publishes that he is the gatekeeper of his grandfather's school. As heir...
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I'm not his representative, but I do know him. I'm commenting on the long-winded situation on the internet by accentuation. He publishes that he is the gatekeeper of his grandfather's school. As heir...
Indeed. Eddie Wu learned from his grandfather, Wu Gongyi. Nobody has to take my word or your word for what happened in 1954 when they can go challenge the "gatekeeper" of Wu Gongyi's school...
Anyone who wants a definitive answer to the questions raised by this short, grainy film clip only needs to look up Eddie Wu at wustyle.com and tell him to his face that his grandfather was a punk....
I visited Wudang in 1994, before the cable cars went in. It was amazing. I highly recommend it if only for scenic purposes.
Indeed.
We all know at least some people running schools or quasi-religious cults who want to use such nonsense on the unwary to pull off a scam or two, too.
This is a good point.
Martin Luther once said "Your God is that which you are most afraid to lose." For humans at least, a god can be seen as a function more than a magical mystical person from...
I agree. Yang Zhenduo's school has (or had, I haven't visited their website in a few years) a rank test system but without Japanese terms.
The only way the the Japanese title sensei wouldn't be...
There used to be a student of Cynthia Wu Xiaofeng (Eddie Wu's sister) who led a Saturday Morning group at the Buttes Chaumont park. It was 10 years ago, so I don't know if he still does it, or what...
My qi is not that strong. I can only fry them up golden brown with green beans and taters...
Just Wu style, started in 1988. The teachers I studied from were so overwhelmingly competent that there was no point in and no time to try anything else. I've spent the years since studying the...
The three descriptors you've used are ways I could use to describe defensive, defensive/offensive and offensive aspects of Wu style training.
The first one involves taking some or all of the...
Instead of barley and beans I use beer and Mexican food!
The ancient Roman gladiators used to eat barley and beans every day to develop a uniform layer of subcutaneous fat on their bodies that would protect them from impacts on some of their more...
IME taijiquan should teach you to do all three. Wu Jianquan style does at least. He was great pals with Sun Lutang, though.
Wu style taijiquan has lots of wrestling. Throws, foot sweeps, locks, etc. Not many schools train it today, but a few still have it...
When it's your time it's your time... I can only find comfort in that traditional teaching East and West says there is more than this world. What comes around goes around and we'll be treated as we...
The approach is very Taoist in focus. The teachers I studied with used to say "Taijiquan is Taoism." Wu Gongzao's writings are crowded with quotes from the Taoist literature to illustrate his points....
Well, yes and no. Indirectly, I'd say. The training is designed to, but first you have to get the training system down very well to ensure consistency of a balanced result. The doctrine is your body...
It takes a lot of dedicated energy to pull off 6 hours of begging for 10 minutes of sex! :o
The economy is tough, especially here in the rust belt. We have a body of die-hard students, but what's been hitting us is that many of our best have had or are having to move to other regions to...
On that theme, one the principles taught is that if you're training well, your mind will be kept completely occupied just so that it won't be able to interfere with your natural development....
I spoke up because earlier in this thread there was mention that there was a 100 day neigong method associated with indoor Wu style. IME, there isn't. They didn't concentrate on that stuff at all. If...
I've met apparently well adjusted people who have no interest in sex, and I believe just as you say that it isn't abstinence if it isn't missed. A person's individual spirit will manifest in a unique...
I was an indoor student of the Wu Jianquan family for 13 years, until Wu Daxin passed away in 2005. There was not a single mention of abstinence from anything as a requirement for neigong. Instead, I...
Canada is 5th generation from Eddie Wu, who learned the form from his grandfather, 3rd generation Wu Gongyi, Wu Jianquan's oldest son; and from his own father, 4th generation Wu Dakui, Wu Gongyi's...