You can find pictures of my China training trip here:
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Haojia Tanglangquan is alive and well in Qingdao, China!
You can find pictures of my China training trip here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1¬if_t=like
If you can't see the pictures, just send me a friend request at Facebook.
Haojia Tanglangquan is alive and well in Qingdao, China!
Richard A. Tolson
https://www.patreon.com/mantismastersacademy
There are two types of Chinese martial artists. Those who can fight and those who should be teaching dance or yoga!
53 years of training, 43 years of teaching and still aiming for perfection!
Recovering Forms Junkie! Even my twelve step program has four roads!
hows your trip? are you still here?
Richard A. Tolson
https://www.patreon.com/mantismastersacademy
There are two types of Chinese martial artists. Those who can fight and those who should be teaching dance or yoga!
53 years of training, 43 years of teaching and still aiming for perfection!
Recovering Forms Junkie! Even my twelve step program has four roads!
Lucky, I'd like to go there someday.
Shifu Zhang Weifu has just opened a new school in Qingdao that has a space that is being turned into living quarters. Soon it will be open for short and long term foreign students.
You can contact me for more details as they arise at: r-tolson@sbcglobal.net
The cost for my trip was much more reasonable than many might imagine. Here is an approximate breakdown of my costs in US dollars:
Round trip Air China ticket: $1,115
Passport: I already had one. A new one costs $165.
Expedited Visa: less than $400
Total hotel bill for seven days: $120
Total cost of the buffet breakfast at the hotel for seven days: $20
Instructional Fee: Private, but far less than a year's tuition at a typical kung fu school or gym.
Richard A. Tolson
https://www.patreon.com/mantismastersacademy
There are two types of Chinese martial artists. Those who can fight and those who should be teaching dance or yoga!
53 years of training, 43 years of teaching and still aiming for perfection!
Recovering Forms Junkie! Even my twelve step program has four roads!
Hey Richard,
who did you train with and what did you learn?
I trained with Shifu Zhang Weifu of Qingdao. Shifu Zhang is an eighth generation inheritor of Haojia Taiji Meihua Tanglangquan.
Shifu Zhang, along with Shifu Yu Tianlu and his sons, was chosen to demonstrate traditional tanglangquan for the manual, Textbook Series of Chinese Wushu Duanwei System and it's accompanying DVDs. This textbook contains the "examination criteria of Chinese wushu duanwei system".
I relearned Zhai Yao Yi Lu according to Haojia standards as taught by Shifu Zhang and I learned the Liu Shi Ba Ji Ji Fa form. As well as all the fighting applications of each form.
Last edited by mooyingmantis; 03-31-2013 at 01:57 PM.
Richard A. Tolson
https://www.patreon.com/mantismastersacademy
There are two types of Chinese martial artists. Those who can fight and those who should be teaching dance or yoga!
53 years of training, 43 years of teaching and still aiming for perfection!
Recovering Forms Junkie! Even my twelve step program has four roads!
sounds like a nice trip. did you visit the qingdao beer company??
went to qingdao in 1993 to train with Master Zhang Bing Dou.