July August 2011

[GeneChing]

Subscribers (http://www.martialartsmart.com/19341.html) and newsstands are receiving issues now. Unfortunately due to our tournament, it won't be available on Zinio (http://www.zinio.com/browse/publications/index.jsp?productId=500626248&categoryId=cat1970036) yet. Soon come.

This issue is an MMA cover - our second ever - but before you TCMA readers judge, read the cover story. On the cover is Zhang Tiequan (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58184).

[lkfmdc]

It's our July August 2011 (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1100602), on newsstands now.

Gene, someone said this issue also has David Chin doing a Hop Gar article? Is that true? Unfortunately, getting copies is darn hard where I am, can I order it online from you???

[JamesC]

BOOO!!!!

Just kidding. :D

"The Mongolian Wolf" is a pretty cool nickname...

[GeneChing]

I guess you'll have to read the article. ;)

[GeneChing]

Yes, there is a David Chin article by his student Nick Lamia. Yes, you can get it from us, but single issues will sting you in shipping so I'd advise getting more ;) or going via Zinio (http://www.zinio.com/browse/publications/index.jsp?productId=500626248&categoryId=cat1970036) (note that our Zinio version isn't up yet).

Nice to know you still read us. ;)

[GeneChing]

Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine July/August 2011 (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=965)

http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/images/mzine/COV2011_04.jpg

[GeneChing]

Our horoscopes (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/info/horoscope/index.php) are now live.

[Tyrant171]

Quick question...

I subscribed to the magazine on 6/2/11 via the website. Haven't received an issue yet. Will I be receiving the July/August issue or will my first issue be the following one?

Sorry for the trifling question...just anxious I guess. :D

[GeneChing]

The newsstand date for that issue was 5/31, so if you subscribed on 6/1, the subscriptions were already fulfilled a few weeks earlier. You fell into our bimonthly subscription hole. Sorry about that. The first issue you will receive will be our Sep/Oct, which has a newsstand date of 8/2.

[Tyrant171]

Ah...just my luck.

Is there anywhere in the greater Chicago area to pick up a copy?

[JamesC]

You have any large book stores in the area? I'm pretty sure that Barnes and Noble carry it here. Hastings does for sure.

[Tyrant171]

I've actually been to a couple Barnes and Nobles recently...neither had it.

[JamesC]

Ahh, that sucks.

You could always buy an individual copy from martialartsmart.com, although you're gonna pay a bit more...

[Tyrant171]

Yeah, I might end up doing that. Thanks, James.

[JamesC]

No prob. Check your private messages.

[GeneChing]

On Barnes & Noble... (http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/jun/22/briefly/)

Barnes & Noble on Tuesday reported a larger fourth-quarter loss than analysts expected as the bookseller continues to invest heavily in its e-book reader Nook and as liquidation sales by rival Borders hurt its revenue.

The largest U.S. specialty book retailer said its net loss came to $59.4 million for the three months ended April 30, larger than its net loss of $32 million a year ago.

Revenue rose 4 percent to $1.37 billion from $1.32 billion last year.

Let me know via PM if you can't find an issue, Tyrant171. Let me know here if you do find one on the newsstands.

[Tyrant171]

Well I ventured out a little bit and managed to find the May/June issue of the magazine at a Barnes and Noble in Plainfield, IL. Woohoo! I can always go back there to pick up the July/August issue when it comes in.

Thanks for your concern, Mr. Ching. Btw, I've begun reading my copy of Shaolin Trips and have to say that, from what I've read so far, you have something really terrific on your hands. :)

[GeneChing]

Glad you are enjoying my book (http://www.amazon.com/Shaolin-Trips-Gene-Ching/dp/1424308976/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276188031&sr=1-1) too. I appreciate your support on that.

[GeneChing]

Our July August issue is now available on Zinio for iPad. (http://www.zinio.com/browse/publications/index.jsp?productId=500626248&categoryId=cat1970036)

[GeneChing]

Read this issue's cover story for free: The Wolf at the Door (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=969)by Gene Ching with Gigi Oh.

Our July August 2011 issue is now available on the newsstands, as well as for iPad on Zinio (http://www.zinio.com/browse/publications/index.jsp?productId=500626248&categoryId=cat1970036).

[GeneChing]

Scott wrote Five Steps to Strong Knees in this issue and has another article, Shape Your Stance, coming up in our next issue (Jan Feb 2012)


San Rafael champion says Kung Fu saved his life (http://www.marinij.com/sports/ci_19335638?source=most_viewed)
By Scott Silveri
Marin Independent Journal
Posted: 11/14/2011 06:42:34 PM PST

STRENGTH AND flexibility are two benefits to becoming an expert in the marial art of Kung Fu. Scott Jensen believes those qualities saved his life — twice.

The 49-year-old San Rafael resident survived two major car accidents before he turned 25. The first crash stopped his heart and broke his pelvis, the second sprained nearly all his vertabrae. With the help of his martial arts training, he recovered. Now, 25 years later, Jensen is considered a Kung Fu master and credits his physical health to his devotion to the art.

"One of the reasons I got good at all this stuff and some of my friends have told me I should write a book, 'I Can't Stop,'" said Jensen, who lives with his wife of five years, Rachel, and his 14-year-old son, Connor. "Because if I keep training, I keep doing the Tai Chi and the Kung Fu, I feel great and I'm super athletic, I can do what I want. If I stop for a couple months, I'll start feeling terrible and I'll start having pain again in my back and I'll sort of lose the tone and alignment of my whole body."

Last month, Jensen competed in the World International Martial Arts Championship held at Wu Dang Mountain, China. There were over 1,200 competitors and Jensen won a gold medal for his performance of the Yang Family Style of Tai Chi Chuan. He also won a silver medal for his performance of the Plum Blossom Double Straight Swords.

The Yang Family Style is the most common worldwide and it's a long sequence of movements of different martial arts techniques. The Double Straight Swords form is a rare, difficult and fast sequence. Jensen was the only competitor to use that particular form.
"I feel especially good about my silver medal in the weapons form because I had some really stiff competition," he said. "I was competing against a lot of people that were 20 years younger than I was."

Jensen's wife Rachel, a native of Taiwan, accompanied him to Wu Dang Mountain, a place of great significance in the martial arts world. She served as his translator.

"I knew of the history and the background a little bit already," said Rachel, who met Scott after taking one of his martial arts classes. "But being there, I was just in awe of the surroundings, the setting of the whole place. The energy of the place is just amazing."

Jensen has had quite a few great martial arts instructors during his years of training, but credits Grandmaster Wong Jackman, for having a great influence on his passion for Kung Fu. Jackman is considered to be a living legend in San Francisco's Chinatown and in the martial arts world, according to Jensen.

Jackman is best known for a secret duel with Bruce Lee, the movie star considered to be the most famous Kung Fu expert. With some of Jensen's instructors retiring from teaching Kung Fu, he feels a responsibility now that he must take it upon himself to teach and keep the art alive.

"There's only a couple people like me in those arts that can pass it on," Jensen said. "My intention is that I'm dedicating the next 10, maybe 15 years and I'm going to start with the kids. "... (After) a few more years we're going to have some really good Kung Fu competitors coming out of Marin and a few more we'll have a whole crop of instructors as well. I'm really on this sort of mission to do this."

Jensen, who is known as Sifu (Chinese for "father of secret knowledge"), operates the 10,000 Victories School of Chinese Kung Fu and Tai Chi. He holds classes in Marin and the East Bay. The reference "10,000 Victories" is a double sabre form in Kung Fu and also was a well-known body guard company in China.

"It's not just about winning medals or trophies," Jensen said. "It's really people becoming healthier or stronger and more capable, more confident, being able to be leaders in their own lives. To me, that's really the kind of victories we're trying to create."