UK bbc3 mondays 9pm / wing chun

[foolinthedeck]

sorry no time.
but did anyone else see the new show thats on as above?
wow, ip chun on british tv!
it was great, and there surely more great stuff to come, at last we get someone showing of CMA from a CMA perspective
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/mind_body/episode_guide.shtml

[YongChun]

What station carries it in Canada or the USA? Is it available on tape or DVD? It's always fun to watch this kind of stuff. Maybe someone can tape the series for those who can't get it?

Show 1 has some good supplementary exercises:

Episodes 1 & 2
Monday 9 August, 9pm
At a builder's merchants in Cardiff, Chris invites six strong men to push him over. Needless to say, they don't succeed. Extraordinary martial arts secrets are exposed for the first time, from deadly shouting to a van pulled by a *****. In Hong Kong we show what happens when a sledgehammer cracks bricks on a mans head and in Taiwan a trained hand crushes a steel pipe.

Here is a write up from that link of some of the Beijing masters:

Zhou Minde - Yang Style Tai Qi (Chi)
Master Zhou Minde is over 60 years old and says that he is the 5th Generation Master of 'Real Tai Qi'. His 'real tai qi' is Yang Style Tai Qi, an amalgamation of styles including Shaolin boxing, Xinyi Liuhe Boxing, Shuai Jiao and Tai Qi that Master Zhou has developed since he first started training at the age of eight. He has developed a reputation for saying "I will only retire when someone beats me".

Yang Style Tai Chi
BBC Health: Tai Chi


Duan Bao Hua - Liang Yi Dian Xue Gong Fu (Dim Mak)
Duan Bao Hua is the Master and Inheritor of Liang Yi Dian Xue Gong Fu (Liang Yi Pressure Point Kung Fu), a rare internal martial art that has been passed down within the Duan family for generations. Also known as Dim Mak or the Death Touch, the art, based on the theory of Yin and Yang or the Liang Yi (Twin Poles), combines soft and slow practice methods similar to Tai Qi Quan with the fast and sudden release of power similar to Xing Yi Quan.

Striking the pressure points can cause different results; some might lose their power of speech, others might be paralysed temporarily. The opponent can only be restored to 'normal' by striking alternative pressure points.




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