KUNG FU TAI CHI magazine Winter 2020

KungFuMagazine.com・October 21, 2019

Cover Story
The Show Must Go On
By Gene Ching

Yum Cha
Where the Real Kung Fu Lessons Take Place
By Williy Pang

The Boundless Butterfly Palms of Five Family Fist
By Peter Pena

Fist Like an Arrow
By Brian Kuttel

Developing Pinpoint Accurate Strikes
The Copper Man Acupressure Dummy of Choy Lee Fut
By Emilio Alpanseque

The Mountain Trident of Five Ancestors
By Daniel Kun

Vintage Drunken Style Boxing and Modern Wushu
By Lucas Christopoulos

Immersing in Tai Chi Push Hands
By Jeff Lin with Zhao Xiaohu

From Bruce to the Beast and Beyond
By Gene Ching

Featured Weapon
Sword of Law

Tournaments - Events - News

The 2nd Zhang San Feng Cultural Festival
By Gene Ching

11th ITKFA Chinese Martial Arts Championship
By Gene Ching

The 2019 Northern California Chinese Culture-Athletic Federation Martial Arts Championship
By Gene Ching with Gigi Oh

1st International Lou Reed Tai Chi Day
Submitted by Stephan Berwick with contributions by Haobo Zhao (New York) and Maciej Magura Góralski (Poland)

Grandmaster Zeng Nailiang 1941–2019
By Sue Woo

Brian L. Kennedy 1958–2019
By Gene Ching

Fast Forward to the Fight Scenes: Holiday Rush and the Year of the Rat

Kung Fu Horoscope

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...

Gene Ching・Dec 10, 2024

Danny Trejo on FAN EXPO SF, Tyson vs. Paul, and Doing His Own Stunts

“I love doing these,” says Danny Trejo. “I love doing Fan Expo. And I love the fans.” It’s Friday, Black Friday, the opening day of Fan Expo San Francisco, and Danny Trejo has managed to squeeze a little time in to chat with me privately at the beginning of his packed schedule. He is slated for a...