Bai Hua – Taoist Lineage Master
Bai Hua, a student of Liu Hung Chieh, was Beijing-educated. I met Bai Hua in Hong Kong and was lucky that he was an extremely articulate Mandarin speaker because I spoke only Mandarin. I shared an...
View ArticleLiu Hung Chieh – Taoist Lineage Master
Possibilities of an Art Realized My last teacher in China, Liu Hung Chieh, was a master of bagua, tai chi, hsing-i and Taoist meditation. In addition, he was a master calligrapher and a classical...
View ArticleMorihei Ueshiba – Aikido Master
I studied with O-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido, during my undergraduate days in Japan. My research has indicated that O-Sensei’s aikido was in a primary way directly influenced by...
View ArticleHung I Hsiang – Internal Arts Master
When I studied with the late Hung I Hsiang, he was in his fifties. He spoke with a gravelly voice that sometimes conveyed a bit of gruffness, but in actuality, Hung was an intelligent, perceptive, well...
View ArticleWang Shu Jin – Master of Chi
In the summer of 1968, I traveled to Taiwan from Japan in search of the internal arts bagua master Wang Shu Jin, who was widely considered to be one of the best empty-hand fighters in Asia. I tracked...
View ArticleCheng Man-ching – Master of Tai Chi
One of the people at the aikido school I attended in New York after high school hours was a judo teacher named Lou Klinesmith. Knowing of my passion for the fighting arts, Lou asked me one day if I...
View ArticleHuang Hsi I – Therapeutic Chi
The solidly built Huang Hsi I was about the same height as the average American man, but tall for a native Taiwanese. His strength and abundant chi—natural and trained—combined with his huge, immensely...
View ArticleKenichi Sawai – Spirit of Martial Arts
A member of the Shibuya tai chi school introduced me to Kenichi Sawai’s hsing-i group, who were fanatics about developing chi through standing practices. Sawai had studied for 10 years in China with...
View ArticleIn Memoriam to Grandmaster Feng Zhi Qiang
This weekend was the supermoon, the one time of the year when a full moon coincides with its perigee, the closest point to Earth in its orbit. On Sunday I was on a call with Alan Peatfield in Ireland...
View Article5 Levels of Tai Chi Masters
There are traditionally five levels of credentials and competence for tai chi masters, which are helpful to know since tai chi doesn’t have black belts or other obvious visible signs of competence. In...
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Musings on Breath to Qi
Daoist Breathing: Commentary by Dr. Alan Peatfield The last time Bruce taught a seminar on breathing as extensive as he plans to this year, was in 2010 on Crete. For all of us who were there, it was...
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