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The Power to Destroy

The Three Types of Destructive Energy used in Martial Arts

 
The Hidden Meanings Behind The Flash

The King, the Fool, and the Fox Reading and controlling non-verbal communication in the sparring ring

 
Do you know what you're really learning?
 
Balance and the Martial Arts
 
Learn the deadly combination of strategy and attitude
 
 
 
Strategy for the Streets What would Sun Tzu do in a Street fight?
 
Two Man Staff Drills from China
 
Spinning Staff Techniques
 
How to Do a Pole Vaulting Side Kick
 
Stefan Traces The Origins of Kung Fu to Thailand's Mountain Tribes
 
No nonsense advice on what works in real life.

 

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A Case Study of Sensory Enhancement for the Blind and Vision Impaired
 
 
 
 
 
 
Video Clips
 
New!

I first watched this video in Sifu Chans kuan in 1986. It was from an 8 hour BBC documentary series titled the Way of the Warrior that aired in 1983. I had searched for it for years but it was unavailable in any format. Recently someone found an old beta max copy that was recorded from the original broadcast and posted it all onto youtube so the quality is low. I downloaded the one hour segment that focused on Kung Fu and I edited out everything else so that whats left is the 18 minutes that focus only on master Chan.

This video accurately portrays master Chans teaching style and the old Kung Fu traditions that are pretty much gone now.

Part one of two

 
 

Part two of two

 

Featured in a LATV Local Explorer Episode
Co Hosts Elina Chang and Kelly Howard are riding their bikes along the Ventura Bike Trail (See photos here:) when they come across the long abandoned and mysterious Foster Bowl. The intrepid couple brave the forbidding staircase to the bowl where they happen upon the Phantom of the Foster! (yours truly)

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Eighteen Lohan Staff Form

This is the complete staff form, video is paused to show proper form.

 


Whirling Staff Form

Normal speed and slow speed to see the techniques.

 


Lohan Palm Form

This is a clip of my teacher Sifu Tsai Jen Ryu performing an empty hand form filmed in Taipei in 1986. Has it been more than twenty years already?

More clips coming soon.

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