Chinese Gong Fu Workshop With Taiwanese Grandmaster Chen Yun Ching

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Hsing-I Walking Cane

Thursday, Sep 11 6:30-9:30 pm Only ($60)

Friday, Sep 12 6:30-9:30 pm Only ($60)

Thursday and Friday, Sep 11 and 12 6:30-9:30 pm ($80)

Tai Chi Sword

Saturday, Sep 13 10:30-6:30 pm Only ($100)

Sunday, Sep 14 10:30-6:30 pm Only ($100)

Saturday and Sunday, Sep 13 and 14 10:30-6:30 pm ($170)

Special Early Registration (by Aug 1)

$250/entire workshop and DVD of workshop

Where:In Motion Center • 1091 Calcot Place Suite 412 • Oakland, CA

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About Chen Yun Ching: Born June 3rd 1939 in Chong Ching China, number seven child, considered to be the favorite of his father’s eight children, migrated to Taiwan with his family at six years of age and began his strict training in Shaolin Boxing at the age of eight. In his adolescence, he progressed to the three main systems of Chinese Internal Gung Fu: Tai Chi Chuan, Hsing I Chuan, and Ba Gua Zhang.

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Martial Arts Camp

Learn Chinese Tactical Arts In 2 Day Workshop ($100/weekend)
Sat, Aug 2nd & Sun, Aug 3rd 10-5 pm (Tai Chi)
Sat, Aug 16th & Sun, Aug 17th 10-5 pm (Bagua/Hsing-I)
Preregister by July 31, 2008 • (415) 453-2057

Private Seminars

I offer private seminars around the world. The seminars will improve your martial arts practice by reinforcing your martial principles. Please contact me for more information.

Previously Offered Public Seminars

Tai Chi Push Hands

The core training in Tai Chi involves two primary features: 1) solo form, a slow sequence of movements which emphasize a straight spine, relaxed breathing and a natural range of motion; and 2) different styles of pushing hands for training “stickiness” and sensitivity in the reflexes through various motions from the forms in concert with a training partner in order to learn leverage, timing, coordination and positioning when interacting with another. Pushing hands is seen as necessary not only for training the self-defense skills of a soft style of Martial art.

Bagua Applications

This workshop is for all levels of students from all martial arts systems, no previous experience necessary. Bring a friend if possible to work with.

The workshop will emphasize both the philosophical and tactical aspects of the Ba Gua and Hsing-i but put the tactical aspects first in the training. Once the student has a “handle” on the tactical aspect – that is they can do drills with a partner with some understanding – we will then begin to introduce the philosophical, religious and esoteric ideas which stand behind any Way of Power which eventually can lead to a genuine Understanding of a given Art. But I must emphasize here, from the craftsman’s point of view – these arts are not arts of form they are TACTILE RESPONSE ARTS. The forms reflect physical applications which come out of physical responses which are trained.

Many teachers, particularly in the Chinese Martial Arts teach “form only” or “form mainly”. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a great deal of frustration and illusion about how these arts work and why they work. Many times students in the Chinese tradition are put on what I call “the ten year program”. In other words the teaching is spread out to fill ten years. Often students are never shown applications or applications are held back so the teacher can maintain the tactical “upper hand”. This is still the rule rather than the exception. It allows the teachers to maintain mediocre skill and still control the students in the class by physical threat. While this may work with the glandular system of adolescents, for thinking adults who no longer need the boot camp mentality –genuine applications must be taught and drilled with other mature adults who are kind and gracious enough to tolerate the process without abusing one another.

Animal Movements Classes help children increase their:

• Self-control
• Strength
• Energy
• Body awareness
• Concentration

Children love imitating animals. I first teach children how to crawl like different animals (e.g., monkey, bear, tiger and lizard). I then teach how to stand and step like animals. These animal movements are adapted from Chinese martial arts (going back hundreds of years) and continue to be taught to millions of children in Chinese and Taiwanese schools.

In Junior and High School movement classes, I introduce swinging sticks. Stickwork tests hand-eye coordination and their ability to perceive their bodies moving in space. Once competent with sticks, I teach open hand movements.

I can integrate into your physical education classes or be part of your after-school program.

Children receive more benefits from my classes than from any other sports. Studies show that children who crawl more (when they are young) develop more cross-brain communication and a larger cerebral cortex.

Credentials

• Martial arts teacher for 24 years.
• Teaching Credential from Sonoma State
• Learning Center permit for after School care.

$35 per hour. Call (415) 453-2057

Class Locations:

• 120 N Redwood Drive, San Rafael (Map)
• Bolinas Park: 124 Bolinas Road, Fairfax (Map) [Spring/Summer/Fall]
• Civic Ctr: In front of the Civic Center Lagoon Park in San Rafael (Map)
• Hal’s Studio: 9 Crescent Lane, Fairfax (Map)
• Park Road : 6 Park Road, Fairfax (Map) [Winter]
• San Rafael Community Center: 618 B Street, San Rafael (Map)

Pricing

• Drop In Classes: $18/each
• 10 Class Card: $130 (no expiration)
  
  

• Unlimited Classes: $150/month
  
  

• Private Lessons: $35/hour
  
  

• Group Lessons: $40/hour
  
  

• Lifetime Lessons: $30,000
  
  

Hsing-I

• 5 Fists
• Sword Form

Bagua

• 10 Changes on the Circle

Instructional Videos For Sale

• Sun Lu Tang’s 8 Changes
  
  

• Sun Lu Tang’s Circle Changes
  
  

1. Open Hand Forms
   • Tiger Claw
   • Mountain Top Boxing
   • Consecutive Step Boxing
   • Long Fist Boxing
   • Free Hand exercises
2. Weapons
   • Staff
   • Straight Sword
   • Kun Tao
   • Short Stick
3. Two Man Drills
4. 8 Chin Na Holds
5. 8 Standing Postures

Tai Chi

• Sun Lu Tang
• Tai Chi 99 Postures
• Tai Chi Sword

Hsing-I

• 5 Fists
• 12 Animals
• Si Ba
• Lien Huan
• Sword Form
• Thunder Stick

Ba Gua

• 8 Dragon Changes
• Double Sword
• Staff Form

Shaolin

• Mountain top boxing
• Tiger Claw

• Basic Exercises
• 3 Part Push Hands Form
• 5 Animals Form
• Sword Form

• Push Hands
• Da Lu
• Sword Play

Expansion on The Five Basic Principles of Tai Chi

• Expansion on The Five Basic Principles of Tai Chi (relax/sink, move from the waist, separate full and empty, straight spine, fair ladies wrist)
• Alignment: Central Equilibrium (Exemplified by the down up Turn, earth, yin and yielding) stand upright, balanced, uniform and even.
• Motion in Stillness, stillness in motion.
• Seven points one plane: 2 shoulders with 2 hips, the sacrum with the occipital lobe and point between shoulder blades. (like a plank of wood)
• In 70/30 postures Front knee goes no farther than the toe and back thigh is vertical.
• The foot should be flat like on tofu sinking into the ground with the whole of the foot not the edges.
• The sacrum needs to go closer towards the full hip and it leads all movement.
• The chest drops as the back rises.
• The tan tien should be treated like an egg that is easily cracked if too much force is applied.
• The sacrum moves into the bubbling well of full foot.
• Moving the Body as a Unit: (Exemplified by the Left right turn, Heaven, Yang or sticking)
• Reeling silk: as the weight sinks down it creates the movement in the hands, like two elevators one goes down creating root and the other goes up in direct proportion creating mobility.
• Turn Like an Axle Tree and move like a wheel. Once the wheel moves all pieces move together from the central equilibrium point at the bottom of the sacrum.
• Move both hips in unison continually. The full hip moving back while the empty one moves forward
• The sacrum turns the hips like a spiral into the foot that then functions through the fingers.
• Nine joints and one turn: wrist to ankles, knees to elbows, hips to shoulders. Each joint moves in dependence on the waist turning as its central hub. The smaller distal joints move in proportion to the central hub, with the proportions expanding as they move away from the waist.
• Connect the three bows: the spine, the shoulder to tip of finger, the hip to foot. Each bow has its own potential energy like a cocked bow which is able to release an arrow, but here these three bows move in dependence upon one another (ie. Through the joints).
• Connect the above ideas to full and empty in opposing hands and feet, like an old fashioned scale where one side goes down the other comes up.
• Movement/Momentum pendulum idea creates a swing with the weight shift and the turn. This idea keeps the body moving and light.
• Expand and Contract the whole body with the movements and the breath.
• Think of a spiral moving internally from bubbling well to tip of middle finger. (chan su chin)
• Taking some of the intention out of your movements. (Let the mind relax too)
• Inhale as you raise the hands and exhale as you drop them.
• Swimming on land
• Practice as if an opponent is there.
• Check your empty foot by lifting it before you shift.
• Find a ward off between each posture.
• Tui Shou: The Two turns become one.
• Stick Adhere, Join and Follow
• No resistance, no letting go.
• Don’t move the hands only the waist.
• Be humble, invest in lost, yield, and listen.
• Watch your opponents waist, if he is turning and your not, follow them where they want to go.
• Use only four ounces on your opponent and don’t let them put more than four ounces on you.
• Use the sacrum to yield and push.
• Yield 100% before you push.
• Try to bring the opponents attack back to your waist by using the down up turn and then giving back their attack by yielding and sticking.
• The yield should be like pulling back a bow and push like releasing an arrow, or like a sponge that fills up completely and spits out the excess.
• Don’t over extend the limbs past the body and keep upright.
• Watch the shoulders they telegraph tension in the waist

The 5 Fists

1. Splitting (Pi Chuan) “Air”
2. Drilling (Zuan Chuan) “Water”
3. Crushing (Beng Chuan) “Wood”
4. Pounding (Bao Chuan) “Fire”
5. Crossing (Heng Chuan) “Earth”

The Animals

1. Dragon
2. The Five tigers
3. Monkey
4. Cobra
5. Fighting cock
6. Hawk
7. Swallow
8. Snake
9. Eagle/Bear
10. Chicken
11. Horse (high and low)
12. Tai Bird
13. Phoenix

Ba Shou

1. Press down and punch
2. Press down and uppercut
3. Slice up and press down
4. Press down, punch, chop, punch and palm strike
5. Slice and palm strike
6. Down strike and punch
7. Double punch and punch
8. Two fists out with a jump gathering back and deflecting

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Gao System

The 24 Tactics

1. Chop
2. Hand Sword
3. Double Chop
4. Elbow backfist
5. Double palm strike
6. Pressing down
7. Weeding
8. Spear
9. Punch
10. Palm strike
11. Direct clamping
12. Direct Clamping with stepping
13. Indirect clamping
14. Indirect Clamping with steps
15. Push
16. Crossing
17. Crossing with steps
18. Cross Pull and Push
19. Dart Throw
20. Filing
21. Slap down
22. Rotate head and hips in circles
23. Turn Head Left and Right
24. Meditation/Prayer

The 64 Linear Movements

The 8 Mother Palms

Sun Lu Tang System

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37 Posture Form (with breathing description)

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37 Posture Form (with turning description)

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Applications of Chen Man Ching Short Form

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5 Fist Applications

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5 Fist/2-Person Drills

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Bagua Circle Applications

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2-Person Drills

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Hal Mosher
9 Crescent Lane
Fairfax, California 94930
(415) 453-2057

hal@PeacefulWarriorTraining.com

I have been teaching martial arts for over 25 years. My teachers include: Robert Smith (Maryland), Ben Lo (San Francisco), Allen Pittman (Atlanta), Liu Hsi Heng (Taiwan), Mr. Huang (Taiwan), and Mr. Jou (Taiwan)

My intention for my students to develop body awareness and through that mindfulness, develop a deep sense of the nature of their minds. I teach the forms traditionally without any omissions.

I have also been studying Buddhism under several teachers including His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Buddhist Studies have added a whole wealth of knowledge to my teaching methods in the martial arts.

I have also studied the following healing techniques: Swedish massage, Thai, Tui Na, energy healing, Reiki, healing touch and energy bone manipulation.

For more information about T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Ba Gua, and Hsing-I, please visit these sites:

• chenpanling.com
• emptyflower.com
• shenwu.com
• hsingi.com
• apittman.com

Instructional DVDs: $25 each (includes shipping)

Tai Chi DVDs

• Tai Chi Warm Ups
  
  
  
• Tai Chi 37 Posture Yang Style Form
  
  
  
• Tai Chi Sword
  
  
  
• Tai Chi Five Animals
  
  
  

Bagua DVDs

• Sun Lu Tang’s 8 Changes
  
  
  
• Sun Lu Tang’s Circle Applications
  
  
  
• Chen Pan Ling’s 8 Changes and Double Sword Form
  
  
  

Hsing-I DVDs

• Chen Pan Ling’s 12 Animals
  
  
  
• Chen Pan Ling’s Linking Forms and Sword Form
  
  
  
• Hsing-I 5 Fists Applications
  
  
  

Shaolin DVDs

• Consecutive Step Boxing
  
  
  
• Chen Family Boxing (Feng Chuan)
  
  
  
• Long Boxing
  
  
  
• Shaolin Staff Form
  
  
  
• Chin Na Applications
  
  
  

Bagua - Spiraling, fluid, and defensive movements.

Hsing-I - Direct linear style

Tai Chi - Slow breathing, balanced and relaxed postures, and calmness of mind.

Chen Pan Ling

Shaolin

Sun Lu Tang

Hal Mosher has studied and written about Tai Chi for over a decade.
All articles © 2006-2008 Hal Mosher. Some rights reserved.

• Meditations On The Five Animals of Tai Chi (June 2007)
• Breathing Practice in Tai Chi Chuan (Apr 2007)
• Why We Do Push Hands (Feb 2007)
• 3 Ways of Shifting and 3 Ways of Turning (Jan 2007)
• The Five Animals of Tai Chi (Dec 2007)
• Reeling silk as a method for unifying internal and external aspects of Tai Chi Chuan (Dec 2006)
• Tai Chi as A Spiritual Practice (Nov 2006)
• Developing Root In Tai Chi Practice (Oct 2006)
• Three Levels of Tai Chi Practice: Li, Chi, and I(Sep 2006)
• Resolving Knee Strain in Tai Chi Practice (Aug 2006)
• Taking the Wrestling Out of Push Hands Exercises (Jul 2006)
• The Two Turns of Tai Chi (Jun 2006)

These free videos are short training aids I created to help improve your martial arts practice.

I also offer full-length instructional DVDs for sale in my online store.

• Bagua Videos
• Hsing-I Videos
• Tai Chi Videos

I teach Tai Chi, Bagua, and Hsing-I classes throughout Marin County 7 days a week (in different locations at different times). In addition to regular classes, I also teach seminars and kids’ classes.

• Increase Physical Strength
• Increase Peace of Mind
• Increase Physical Safety
• Improve Balance
• Increase Stamina
• Reduce Stress
• Increase Self-Confidence
• Integrate Body/Mind/Spirit
• Have Fun

Chinese internal martial arts focus on strength, flexibility, stamina, and energy cultivation.

Classes include warm ups, classical forms, self-defense applications, and two person practice.

While these arts are practical for self-defense, they are also methods of cultivating the health of the body, mind, and spirit.

Classes taught daily in Fairfax and San Rafael.

Classes offered at your office during lunchtime

Martial Arts Camp

Learn Chinese Tactical Arts In 2 Day Workshop ($100/weekend)
Sat, Aug 2nd & Sun, Aug 3rd 10-5 pm (Tai Chi)
Sat, Aug 16th & Sun, Aug 17th 10-5 pm (Bagua/Hsing-I)
Preregister by July 31, 2008 • (415) 453-2057

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