Dante (left), Master Wang Yen-nien and Kenny "Snake Man" Waigand outside of the Grand Hotel in Taipei Taiwan in '97 after sword practice.

Structure of the elbow strike in Yang style Tajiquan.

Tai Chi Chuan... the feel good art!

Cliff Cunningham experiencing turn to hold the ball movement from the Cheng Man-Ching form.

To understand the civil, we must know the martial.  How can you appreciate peace if you do not understand the potential for conflict?  How do you savor joy if you do not know pain?

Form demo vid #5

In 1997 Master Wang Yen-nien held a advanced training seminar in Taipei Taiwan.  My Tai Chi Chuan school sponsored me to go.  It was three and a half weeks of training eight hours a day in Tai Chi form, sword, fighting applications, and push hands.  Practice started at 6am and finished around 8:30pm.  This is Dante doing push hands with Luc Defago.  Luc is one of Master Wang's senior students from France.  Check out how sweaty Luc is.  I'm equally sweaty, but it just doesn't show up in the picture.  Taiwan is fairly humid.  That was an amazing experience.

Form corrections vid #4

Using bow posture for self-defense