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Not quite as relevant to this weekend as the previous two...perhaps on a personal level only.

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This one resonates with our WildAid Tiger Claw Champion.

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The Most Popular Martial Art in the World
By Gene Ching with Gigi Oh

There is one mistake in the article that need correction.

In the article it mentioned Dong Yinjie and said "Dong Yinjie (1891–1960 董英杰), one of my grandfather’s senior disciples". This is incorrect. Since the article is an interview of Yang Jun, it seems to imply Dong Yinjie is the student of Yang Zhenduo. In fact, Dong YinJie is one of the senior disciples of Yang Chengfu (杨澄甫), and is the main person who help Yang Chengfu put together his famous Yang Style Tai Chi book "太極拳使用法". Dong's grandsons are now have practice in Los Angeles (Tung Kai Ying 董繼英) and Hawaii (Dong Zeng Cheng 董增辰).

The correct statement should be "Dong Yinjie (1891–1960 董英杰), one of my great grandfather’s senior disciples"

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I suspect it was an artifact of Yang Jun being ESL. His English is quite good, but he still makes the occasional slip. I'm always at odds when it comes to correcting direct quotes. In fact, with this interview, there was much discussion about whether it was appropriate to include all of the parenthesized articles like [the] and [a] as Chinese speakers generally drop those when speaking English because articles like these don't exist in Chinese. My general stance is to remain as true to what was actually said as possible. But you are correct - in this case, perhaps I should have qualified that statement somehow or just inserted the 'great'.

Anyway, here's today's fb meme.

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Here's an exclusive extra from our MAY+JUNE 2015 Cover Story. Read Yang Jun on the Cultural Revolution and Taiji Today by me.

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only two more to go...

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From KUNG FU TAI CHI DAY 2015.

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That was fun. With this abundant crop of memes along with our stream of TCEC&KFTCD vids and pix, our facebook has been blowing up.

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Translation courtesy of Centre Yang Chengfu Lyon

Nous remercions Kung Fu Magazine USA d'avoir autoriser la publication de la traduction en Français de l'interview de Maître YANG JUN.

Interview de Maître Yang Jun en français

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“One Belt, One Road” The Chinese Taiji Culture World Workshop
The Tiger Claw Foundation is supporting the “One Belt, One Road” The Chinese Taiji Culture World Workshop on Friday February 8th, 2019 at the Royal Palace, 6058 Stevenson Blvd., Fremont CA 94538, and Saturday 9th, 2019 at the Redemption Church, 105 Nortech Pkwy, San Jose CA. The “One Belt, One Road” Taiji Ambassadors include Grandmaster Chen Zhenlei, Grandmaster Wang Zhanhai, Grandmaster Yang Jun, Professor Huang Kanhui, Master Wu Dong, and Master Qiu Huifang. Contact Gigi Oh for tuition rates at 408-209-8150 gigitcmedia@hotmail.com.

In cooperation with nccaf.org and KungFuMagazine.com.

I'd post this on our July 1999 thread too if we had one, but we didn't have this forum back then.

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