INTERNATIONAL YIQUAN ACADEMY

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Wishing everybody big and fast progress in Yiquan training!

Easy Tui Shou (no step tui shou) sparring meeting was organized in Warsaw, Poland. Participants were from yiquan, i liq chuan and taijiquan.

Beginning from January 2014 International Yiquan Academy in Warsaw, Poland will have it's own training gym (so far we had to pay per hour for renting gym). This way we will be able to organize more classes, with various profiles and for various levels students. It will also create more opportunities for students learning by participating in our seminars and intensive courses. Arranging the dates of your training will be easier. You can come at any time of the years to start or to continue learning our program (master Yao Chengguang's method) in systematic way (only with exception of some day, when we have other arrangements). Read more ... here ... and ... here ...

Yiquan Academy seminar was organized in Kiev, Ukraine. There were some beginners, who started learning our program. Those in more advanced group focused on counters in pushing hands, hitting bag and hitting pads training.

This is related to a disscussion during one of our seminars in November 2013. 1. MMA is not an ultimate format for testing value of martial arts (even if we are talking only about fighting aspect). In cases of most styles suggestion to prove their value in UFC is off point, as they were usually created for fighting under quite different conditions. So we feel need to develop a format of confrontation, which will be closer to the character of yiquan (and in fact quite many other chinese martial arts). Only then more people will start noticing value and meaning of things which they don't realize or neglect (e.g. tui shou). Similarly as Gracie family started UFC in order to demonstrate the value of what they were doing. I was quite surprised learning that people think that UFC existed first and then Gracie fighters went there to prove efficiency of their jiu-jitsu. In fact it was Rorion Gracie, who started it and was co-owner of the company organizing UFC. Only some time l...

In 2004 we are planning following events: Push Hands - 1st March 2014 You Can Fight - 4th May 2014 The Challenge - 14th June 2014 Easy Weapons - 21 June 2014

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