Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine March + April 2016

Kungfu Magazine・January 28, 2016

Cover Story
8 Diagrams of Modern Wushu
By Gene Ching and Gigi Oh

The 18 Wooden Dummies of Choy Lee Fut
By Emilio Alpanseque

Wong Lai’s Night Tiger
By Donald Hamby with Victor Nordgren

The Guan Dao of Chinese Kung Fu
By Rick L. Wing

The Eight Principal Palms of Pak Mei Kung Fu
By Peter Pena

Bajiquan, the Leopard Style
By Lucas Christopoulos

The Bump
By Arnaldo Ty Núñez

Traditional Events Introduced at 13th World Wushu Championships
By Lori Ann White

Qigong – The Practice of Cultivating Life
By Daniel Cashman

Featured Weapon
Guandao

Tournment - Events - News

Clawmarks
By Zhao Xiaohu

2015 Taiwanese and Chinese American Athletic Tournament: Shuaijiao Tournament
By Ryan Chen Photos by Jumiana Weng

Martial Artist Anthony Kelly Captures Another Guinness World Record
By Hanna Riviera

The 13th World Wushu Championships
By Eugene Moy

Chollywood Rising: Year of the Monkey and More

Kung Fu Horoscope

By Julia Sultana For centuries, humans have looked down humbly upon cradled hands – a mudra gesture - in order to seek higher truths within themselves. Mudras are used within many belief systems and in meditative practices all over the world. This article explores some basic Indian mudras and the...

Mike Soohey・Jan 10, 2025

Unique Yet Vicious Two-Fisted Punches

For Part 1: Unique Yet Vicious Closed-Fist Punches, click here. Very rarely do you witness a Kung Fu artist use both hands to throw two simultaneous punches to attack or counter an opponent. Despite this rarity, such a practice of punching makes for a very compelling weapon. Typically, these punc...

Mike Soohey・Dec 20, 2024

Unique Yet Vicious Closed-Fist Punches

The closed-fist punch ranks as the most popular and widely utilized handcraft on the fighting art spectrum. Not only is this punch favored, but it is also potent. Experienced Kung Fu artists and full-contact combatants will attest that this hand technique is the most powerful. This attestation li...

Will Wain-Williams・Dec 12, 2024

The Core Forms of Taiji Mantis Kung Fu

The style of Kung Fu known as Praying Mantis (Tanglang Quan 螳螂拳) or just Mantis for short, is probably one of the most visually identifiable styles of Chinese martial art, due to the prolific use of Mantis hooks in its forms. It is a style that many people will be familiar with its origin story t...