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Wang Xiangzhai about fighting
"When you meet opponent, your body is like fire. You destroy him easily as if there was no barrier for you. What is attack? What is defense? Attack is defense, defense is attack. Each action is in the right place. The only thing which you can plan in advance is unexpected changes. Spirit must be in each movement. You must be cruel, only then you have chance to win. What is dodging? What is moving into opponent? Dodging is moving into opponent, moving into opponent is dodging. You don't need to seek something unusual. You don't need to seek visual aesthetics." Wang Xiangzhai - "The right path of yiquan"
Stand Up Elite 2014
YIQUAN.COmpetitions Stand Up Elite 2014 Warsaw, 14 June 2014 This will be first time YIQUAN.COmpetitions Stand Up Elite event, using full contact elite san shou rules. It will consist of a series of sparrings between pairs of opponents of similiar weight and skill level. Only those who participate in all formats of YIQUAN.COmpetitions You Can Fight 2014 will qualify to this event. The cost will depend on number of participants. Preliminary registrations should be made together with registrations for You Can Fight 2014. After that the registrations for Stand Up Elite will be confirmed. http://www.yiquan.pro/news.php?readmore=70
First ever Yiquan San Shou competition
Beijing 1998. A lot of people, when they see this clip think that this stuff is total shit... I just received such a private message: "I love Yiquan and I respect to master Yao Chengguang, but these two warriors are not a good example of what I would get developed yiquan. I preferd make this opinion privated, because i understand that we are yiquan brothers, so i try to not offend." Recently I wrote several posts trying to make people understand better. If you have not checked it yet, please read carefully: http://www.yiquan.pro/articles.php?article_id=54 http://www.yiquan.pro/articles.php?article_id=55 http://www.yiquan.pro/articles.php?article_id=56 Still a lot of people are not able to understand... Their thinking framework is kind of limited by perspectives of fighting taken from elswhere (other sports formats) or in some cases are completely illussory. Some had already chance to check their ideas of fighting against yiquan, inlcuding against Bu Yi, who is...
Yiquan for health and well being 5
Fifth day of the course. Third level of Wang Xiangzhai's 10 sections of moving exercises for health.
Yiquan for health and well being - 4
Fourth day of the course. Sitting postures, lying postures and second level of Wang Xiangzhai's 10 sections of moving exercises for health.
Yiquan tournament in China!
All China yiquan tournament will be organized in Handan city, Hebei province, 2-4 October 2013. There will be demonstrations, lectures, tui shou and san shou competitions. Tui shou tournament will be open for people from outside yiquan - for example taijiquan, shuai jiao etc. San shou tournament this time will be open only for yiquan practitioners. There rules are not announced yet. Media covering this event: "Zhonghua Wushu" martial arts magazine "Boji" martial arts magazine "Wudang" martial arts magazine "Shaolin yu Taiji" martial arts magazine "Wuhun" martial arts magazine "Quanqiu Gongfu" martial arts magazine Handan city and Hebei province newspapers Hebei province television station Handan city television station Handan city radio station
Yiquan for health and well being - 3
Third day of the course. Practice included basic wariant of Wang Xiangzhai's 10 sections of health cultivation moving exercises.
On Yiquan. Part 6
This was written as reply to questions on one of Facebooks groups. It happens quite often, that people seeing yiquan sparrings or competitions (not too many of those were organized so far though) comment and criticize yiquan people for not protecting their head and not keeping proper guard or tight guard and generally lack of defense. Very often they comment: "this is just like very bad, low level boxing or kick-boxing" or "they should rather learn some boxing or kick-boxing instead wasting time for this shit".
A new book
A new book about Yao Zongxun's contribution to the development of Yiquan was published. Contains text written by himself and also by his students and other Yiquan experts.
