INTERNATIONAL YIQUAN ACADEMY

The 5th All China Yiquan festival was organized on 5-7 October 2017 in Linqing, Shandong province, China. There were demonstrations and tournaments in tui shou and san shou. There was also "chinese yiquan vs. japanese karate" challenge. The first fight was won by the Japanese, the second by the Chinese by knock out, the third ended with a draw, but the Chinese was pronounced the winner because of lower weight.

Tui shou and san shou tournament was organized at the Yiquan conference in Linqu, Shandong province, 28-30 October 2016.

One of many variants of Yiquan san shou sparring training

3 days yiquan seminar was organized in Warsaw, Poland, focusing on hitting cotton ball, wooden staff, tui shou and san shou training.

All China Yiquan Conference was organized in Handan, Hebei province. There were tui shou and san shou tournaments. The winner of tui shou was Ma Yan and of san shou contest Chen Chaoqun.

Students of master Yao Chengguang demonstrating san shou at a conference commemorating master Wang Xiangzhai. Beijing 2005.

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...

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

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".

Some goal oriented sparring exercises

This was part of disscussion in one of Facebook groups. Planned to make a proper article based on those notes, but it would take quite a work, so finally decided to publish it in original form. Again about the practical verification, testing of skill, as important part of the learning process. When talking about regular testing of skill, I don't mean everyday hard full contact fighting. That would be something crazy. Even boxing training is not just all the time hard fighting, it is only one part of the whole training, and still it is possible to this extent due to relatively limited scope of possible situations, with keeping tight guard with big gloves, which makes it relatively safe. And in Muay Thai, training regularly like they compete would create too many injuries. So in fact in Thailand they don't really do full contact sparrings regularly. Usually they spar light contact, and only with bags and pads they hit full power. Their tests of hard fighting are at com...

This was part of disscussion in one of Facebook groups. Planned to make a proper article based on those notes, but it would take quite a work, so finally decided to publish it in original form. So with traditional chinese martial arts we have situation that even if they are very good in a way, they were created for fighting in conditions different from present day sports formats, and they are just not good for this. But this means, that basically practicing them you will not have opportunity for regular testing your skill in conditions for which they were designed, so your perception of your skill and your ideas about fighting might be illusions. Of course people might practice some of such styles, just because they like practicing it, learning it. But if you are serious about seeking the truth, you should not deceive yourself, you should understand things like: you cannot be sure about something, if you are not testing it, you cannot really understand it, until you put it in p...

This was part of disscussion in one of Facebook groups. Planned to make a proper article based on those notes, but it would take quite a work, so finally decided to publish it in original form. You can touch hands with someone, and be impressed, feeling something unusual. But then, will this person will be able to exhibit what you expect under conditions of actual violent fight? Now, Wang Xiangzhai's thinking, especially in later years, when he called himself "Contradictions Old Man", was based on dialectic philosophy. In situation of contradict ions creating some balance, which creates next level of contradictions and so on. Relating it to developing fighting abilities and skills: when you start, any opponnent can destroy your "balance", hitting you, projecting, throwing etc. You develop some basics, and it turns out that you can deal with some opponents easily, maintaining your "balance", but still there are some who are able to destroy this ...

From Yiquan Academy Summer Course 2012

One more clip from YIQUAN.COmpetitions 2012, illustrating the close relation between tui shou and san shou.