MASTER INTERVIEWS
Greg Brundage・Jan 03, 2025
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 47 - Auspicious Kung Fu Encounter with Teacher Wang Kai
Auspicious Kung Fu Encounter with Teacher Wang Kai, founder of Beijing Jingwu Champion Schools and Partner with Jackie Chan’s Dragon Rhyme Martial Arts Troupe For The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 46, click here. One never knows who one will meet along the ancient and modern Silk Roads. ...
Gene Ching・Oct 21, 2024
Shaolin Trips: Interview with Abbot Shi Yongxin at the World Shaolin Kung Fu Games
For the previous installment of Shaolin Trips, see Shaolin Trips: The First World Shaolin Kung Fu Games On July 12th, 2024, during the World Shaolin Kung Fu Games, we were invited into the Abbot’s audience chambers for a private interview with and Abbot Shi Yongxin. It was a short interview becau...
Greg Brundage・Mar 18, 2024
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 46 - Visit to China’s National Sports Training Center
For The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 45, click here. Beijing Shichahai Sports School and Splendid Conversations with thier Wushu Kung Fu Team Coaches and Athletes – Old friends and new Believe it or not, about 10 or 11 years ago I trained with China’s National Wushu Team for a few month...
Gene Ching and Gigi Oh・Mar 07, 2024
Interview with the Abbot of Shaolin Temple, Shi Yongxin
During the second weekend of November 2023, the First North American Shaolin Kungfu Games and Duanpin examination was held in San Gabriel, California. Tiger Claw President Jonny Oh, Kung Fu Tai Chi Publisher Emeritus Gigi Oh, and KungFuMagazine.com Publisher Gene Ching were present there to suppo...
Greg Brundage・Jan 22, 2024
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 45 - Visit to the Chinese Wushu Association (CWA) Headquarters
*A Splendid Conversation with the New Director of the CWA’s International Division, Mister Fu Bo For The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 44, click here. Upon arrival back in China in mid-September, I had a lot to do, like meeting old friends after my two year journeys in South Asia. I also...
Greg Brundage・Jan 02, 2024
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 44 – Chinese Numbers
For The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 43, click here. How to delicately tiptoe around funny and dangerous numbers, and everything you need to know to start reading Chinese! Bad numbers! If I, the intrepid Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour nomad, were to say to someone: “You are two-hundr...
Greg Brundage・Oct 09, 2023
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 43, Introducing Muay Jeung – Northwest Thailand’s Traditional Weapons and Unarmed Fighting Art
For The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 42, click here. Exclusive interview with and demonstrations by Kru Max, a very talented coach of a little-known ancient martial art that is primarily weapons-based from Thailand’s Lanna Kingdom An undisputable gem of a martial art from ancient Lanna ...
Greg Brundage・Sep 25, 2023
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 42, in Chiang Mai - Ancient Roots and Modern Thai Traditional Medicine Continued
Interview with Thai Traditional Medicine Master Sombat Traisri Silp Thai Traditional Medicine (TTM) may be 1,000 – 12,000 years old, but is a science now… For The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 41, click here. Thai Traditional and Complementary Medicine Center Though most people might not...
Greg Brundage・Sep 11, 2023
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 41, in Chiang Mai - Ancient Roots and Modern Thai Traditional Medicine
Interview with Thai Traditional Medicine Master Sombat Traisri Silp Thai Traditional Medicine (TTM) may be 1,000 – 12,000 years old, but is a science now… For The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 40, click here. Mainland Southeast Asia in 1707 (excluding most of Myanmar and Malaysia). Autho...