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Newest Joanna Zorya: What is Your Intention (Part Two): The Fine Art of Conflict Resolution Ted Mancuso: A Lesson from Cousin Push Joanna Zorya: Who, What, Where, When, How and Why? - An Almost Too Simple Formula
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Jamie Blair Tournamentality: If You Promote It, They Will Come The changing tournament landscape.
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Randy Coplan Lessons by Mail From a small town in Louisiana, a world is opened with the arrival of the postman and some books on martial arts. |
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Jose de Freitas Internal Martial Arts and Physical Conditioning Examines the place of physical conditioning in the martial regimen. |
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Maia Farrell Achieving Concentration in Martial Arts Training An examination the classic Five Obstacles to Meditation and applies the wisdom gained to martial training. As It Is The problems and internal workings of practice. |
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Michael Jones Internal Martial ArtsThe editor of Internal Martial Arts Magazine speaks of the internal approach... |
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Kris Kovach Furniture With her own special insight Kris Kovach ponders the chair and the sitter and what it all means. Getting it All Backwards Aspects and refinements of getting everything backwards. Stella Maris Ameditation from on the applicability of the starfish as a model for T'ai Chi. |
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Brian Kennedy |
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Ted Mancuso
Articles by Ted Mancuso As PLUM's main contributor Ted has a large collection of articles on practicing marial arts, its philosopy, history and just random thoughts pertaining to what it means to use martial studies as a "way of life". Also among his writing you may want to see our Instructors Notebook Series . Reprints, here are some articles in PDF format, from magazines like Black Belt, Inside Kung Fu and the Journal of Asian Martial Arts.
This section shows interviews with Ted...
Here's a longish piece, always in the process of being updated, that answers many questions about the art of Bagua from our customers.
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Jim Mann Lymphatics and T'ai Chi Examining an intriguing correlation between traditional T'ai Chi practice and possibly a new view of the reasons for its efficacy. Winning a Double Bout Regenesis practitioner and T'ai Chi instructor, tells of a student overcoming two very diverse opponents, one outside and one within. |
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Steve Matchett Footsteps Instructor Steve Matchett stands and breathes and considers... Hole in My Sole A nice piece describing the intimate moments in the life of a Practictioner Butterfly Among the Broken Glass Steve reminds us that in the long study of Kung Fu a moment can sum up a lifetime. Day One in Jinan Experiences in China in pursuit of Cha Style Kung Fu. |
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Rich Mooney Tai Chi Ruler The Tai Chi Ruler revealed ... |
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Marco Sainte No Teacher, Will Train What happens when you dearly want to study but have no teacher? Mr. Sainte considers the problems and opportunities... |
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Gary Shapiro married with two children, is a former USAF navigator. He has been practicing Tai Chi for as long as he's been a physical therapist- over 25 yrs- and is interested in applying the practical aspects of Tai Chi to benefit those with which he works.
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Shaykh Mohammad Abdullah Ansari The Mind, The Body and Conscious Movement A Sufi perspective on what we all feel, or do we? |
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Debbie Shayne the guiding spirit of the Plum site, Debbie has been photographing students, sitting with Kung Fu masters and traveling here and there to interview and record pertinent information here and in Asia. She is one of those people that Kung Fu teachers solicit here opinions. And angle and an expert... |
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Andrew Shinn Healing a Martial Artist What can injuries teach us about our arts and selves? |
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Howard Slatoff Soundings: On Seniors & Ch'i Kung A Senior's Perspective on Ch'i Kung |
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Staff T'ai Chi: Why So Slow? How can something so slow be exercise? The Body Natural,The Body Free Exactly what is "Natural"? |
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Staff translation Heaven Mountain Chi Kung A section of Chi Kung you can learn from this never before translated text. |
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David Sterkin Fists and Petals Some aspects of martial training are so poetic ... |
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On the Road to Sisyphus Falls Some aspects of martial training are so personal; and in his inimitable manner Travis ... Conversation Here you eavesdrop on the talk and thoughts of one who really practices martial arts. The Problems of Practice A BaGua practitioner and black belt shares his poetry and insight into the darker impulses involved with martial training. |
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What is Your Intention (Part Two): The Fine Art of Conflict Resolution In one of her longest articles instructor Joanna Zorya carefully examines the nature of martial arts and conflict and comes up with some thoughtful questions ... Who, What, Where, When, How and Why? - An Almost Too Simple Formula To Push, to Stick or To Hit? We heard that this piece inspired some adverse reactions when it first appeared, but we feel this article is right on. Your reactions? ... WuBu, the Five Steps What is the deeper meaning of the seemingly simple act of stepping ... What is Your Intention? J. Zorya shows us the varieties of intention and the degrees of commitment ... Gentle Persistence Brings Just Reward Discussing the pedagogic advantages of persistence ... Purpose, Quality & Direction T'ai Chi teacher Joanna Zorya is a little more than fed up by those who see her art as a "floaty" form of space dance... Understanding the 6 Harmonies A contemplation on some fundamental concepts of Chinese Martial arts. The Way of Water considering deeper issues in the art of Kung Fu. 8 Uses of Reeling Silk Joanna Zorya, the head of the Reeling Silk School, considers uses of Reeling Silk energy. Fa Chin The issuance of power: its dynamics and the attitude it engenders. |
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Peter
Thelin |
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Beth
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Cold
Mountain |
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| The Doctor as Warrior : In what sense are they the same ? ... | ||
| Overtraining : What Chinese medicine sees in positive behaviors turning negative... | ||
Three: "The Right Box " Two: "Here Comes the Sun" One: "Gong is work" |
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Unlocking #5: The Dynamic Stance. Maybe your knees should knock... Unlocking #4: A Pivotal Exercise: using the straight sword to (sorry!) make a point . Unlocking #3: Let's Sing a Refrain. Unlocking #2: Taking a Step. Unlocking #1: Wrapping a Saber. |
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Instructors
Notebook Series
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For what it's worth, opinions on the readability, quality and many successful and not-so books... Review: Jake Burroughs discusses Gao Jian's Six Harmony Mantis DVD CUSTOMERS, STUDENTS and basically everyone's reviews Path Notes of an Amercan Ninja Master T'ai Ch'i Training in China:Teachers & Coaches |
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Visual
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Page Simplified Page Illustrations and descriptions of Chinese martial texts such dealing with BaGua, Xing Yi and other styles. Most are accompanied by a picture from the book's interior. A good place to browse ... |
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Here are some
excerpts from our publication The
Year 1101 The text: 5000 Years |
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We're not sure that this would be of interest to anyone but here are our weblog archives: |
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