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Great. The guide would really help her in Taipei. Don't know why others haven't written guides for Beijing, Shanghai, etc.

As others have said, go to have fun. Happiness is key. Don't be anal...

Your friend is too wrapped up in the whole "China is a taoist kungfu wonderland" thing. Living in China/Taiwan isn't what people think it is. it's both better and worse. But the whole kungfu...

This is a good suggestion from Jake and is one way to go IMO. Wang doesn't teach shuaijiao, per se. But his people work out on mats and they do the throws found in taiji. Problem is, he teaches in...

Two of those (the last two) are no longer running. There are other lists of judo clubs in Taiwan, but they're in Chinese.

Well, you light want to read this first:
http://formosaneijia.com/2007/who-not-to-train-with/

It ain't pretty.

I've trained here in Taiwan for the past eight years. I also right a blog about my experiences that you might enjoy:
http://formosaneijia.com/

I have a guide to teachers here in Taipei that you...

Doc,
That was a particularly nice piece from Legge. He's one of my favorite translators. I also find it interesting that he was a Christian missionary.

Pieces like that provide a nice context for...

But actually, learning tantui before you learn most anything else would help, especially for a serious, long-term student. I'm sure you'd agree. :)

Well, this seems to be at odds somewhat with your initial post. i thought that you were looking at doing the conditioning because you didn't have a teacher handy.

"Internal power" has many...

I think of strength training as building raw, unrefined strength. Taiji uses more refined power for it's techniques. So what I do is take what my external conditioning gives my body and refine it...

I think it all depends on what you want. If you'll be happy training for health as you get more advanced, then everything should be fine. But if you're comparing what he teaches to a jeet kune do...

Well, you might be like me, let a Taiwanese women get her hooks into, and end up living here in Taiwan permanently. :)

Going either before or after college both have there advantages.

But...

I posted that clip of CZL on youtube because I think the material is useful. I'm still getting something out of the practice. But I find the material on this clip to be even better:...

I would recommend two pages:
http://www.kongfu.org/english/En_Document.htm

scroll down to beishaolin

http://www.geocities.com/yunhsinyoung/english/index1_eng.html

click on history

have...

I could recommend several people and Marcus will almost definitely be here through the beginning of August. But if you're only staying here in Taipei for two weeks, then why not just see the sites?...

I hope the pope part is a joke, because I agree with all the rest. If you want real Chen taiji then I hear that Feng is the best. If you want wushu taiji, then Chen family village is apparently the...

Robert,
Thanks for the kind words about my blog. i wasn't sure whether to reply to here or at EF.

I also feel good knowing that Xiong took up this stuff in his 40's and was very inflexible. That...

Hulei boy,
Thanks for the kind words. I'm not a student of Xiong Wei but I know a disciple of his. This disciple has some of the most amazing taiji I have ever seen. As I said on my blog, I...

Yes, the styles are the same. Whether or not the style is good depends on the teacher and how he/she teaches it. Wouldn't you agree?

I don't know if David Chin's version has any extra forms, but I...

Close, but not quite the same. The version that Adam Hsu does was mixed with lao jia and doesn't emphasize whipping energy. The version that Tim Cartmell learned came from Xiong Wei and emphasizes...

No, in fact they aren't. On one of the tapes I owned, they talked about how Margie Smith and two of the other female demonstrators had done a bench press test just to see what they were capable of as...

You point about learning stuff like this from videos is well taken. But have you ever seen the strength tapes from Green Dragon? That's what this thread is really about.

If you do, you'll see that...

And my point is that if you had bothered to read the thread, as it is now clear to me that you haven't, you would have seen my posts and Royal Dragon's in which we said that the GD people DO NOT...

That's a paraphrase of what I said above but your previous statement was about kung fu people in general and had nothing to do with GD. So just what is your point?

Dave C.

Maybe you should try bothering to read the thread before you make inane comments. If you do, you'll understand what I meant.

Dave C.