YES! we have restocked two very important and hard to find Taijiquan texts too…just look!
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Aug
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Aug
21
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2010
Baguazhang Concepts DVD series from Tom Bisio
Look!! A whole new series of Bagua DVDs from Tom Bisio! Good explanations, oodles of applications, and Bagua usage that looks suspiciously like Bagua. We think you are going to like these…
Aug
18
2010
18
2010
Martial Qigong with George Xu
As Shaw once remarked about George Gissing, “He is conducting his education in public.” This is somewhat true of George Xu, but in this case it is a bonus. As he evolves as a martial artist, he brings forward new ideas and some inspired insights. Here’s a small seminar on “Martial Qigong”; the moves are [...]
Aug
15
2010
15
2010
Ma Hong “month”
If it seems like “Ma Hong Month” at Plum…
Aug
11
2010
11
2010
Kick Up Your Heels for Bagua
One of our most requested books is just and finally back in stock: Shi Style Bagua Linked Legs & Guiding Fist. This text offers two hard-to-find Bagua sets, including the Linked Legs. We get many queries for Baguazhang Leg sets, and this one is recommendable.
(The observant visitor will notice two other long-gone books on that [...]
Aug
7
2010
7
2010
Pak Mei Kung Fu
A lot of people are interested in Southern style but there’s never enough written about them…
Aug
3
2010
3
2010
Sifu Ma Hong LIVE at Plum!
Last week we announced our excitement over the SIX Ma Hong DVDs that we had reviewed, and were expecting. Well, the wait is over! They are ALL here and ready for sale.
We are not big ‘gushers’ here at Plum, but this series is pretty exciting. There is a certain intimacy in these DVDs, that makes [...]
Aug
2
2010
2
2010
Tai Chi from an Iron Palm Master
Gu Ru Zhang is the famous master of the Iron Palm
Jul
29
2010
29
2010
At last, Blossoms…
We are proud and happy to announce …
Jul
24
2010
24
2010
Sifu Ma Hong In Your Living Room
We have just reviewed an entire DVD series by Sifu Ma Hong…
Jul
18
2010
18
2010
Product: Eight Immortals Boxing
There’s just no way to say it other than straight: some styles of Kung Fu are in danger of going away
Jul
12
2010
12
2010
JinGang LiGong: Buddha Disciple Strength Method
Jin Gang is said to originate in the Song Dynasty over 1100 years ago.
Jul
8
2010
8
2010
La Blossoms DVD
Some of you (you know who you are) have been anxiously awaiting the coming of Plum’s new DVD, Blossoms in the Spring (this is the companion disk to our most recent book). Well, the wait is almost almost over. We have been holing up in our office with our computer and all of our film-editing [...]
Jul
6
2010
6
2010
Xing Yi Quan Xue (Xing Yi Boxing Studies): Here today, gone…?
There are some titles that go in and out of print almost like the seasons. It’s here, it’s gone, it’s back again, no it’s out again. Xing Yi Quan Xue (Xing Yi Boxing Studies) by Sun Lu Tang, translated into english by Albert Liu, and edited and compiled by that great contributor to martial studies, [...]
Jul
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Jun
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Product: Gong style Bagua Qigong
Bill Hsi (Xi Jia Jun), a long time martial practitioner from Taiwan, has just issued this little treasure. It is a work showing the famous Liu Yun Chiao demonstrating the Bagua Qigong of the Gong Bao Tian style. Beside introductory notes there is a straightforward breakdown of the sections with full page photography. A Qigong [...]
Jun
24
2010
24
2010
Straight to the Circle
OK! We at Plum admit to a less-than-secret love affair with Ba Gua Zhang. So we are always thrilled when we can add new and worthy material on the subject to our ever-expanding collection, and particularly when it comes from one of our favorite author teams: Gao Ji Wu and Tom Bisio. That’s right! Their [...]
Jun
22
2010
22
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Product: Jing Wu Assocation
Now here’s along overdue piece of the puzzle…
Jun
22
2010
22
2010
Xing Yi Nei Gong Has Returned to Plum!
We’ll keep it short and sweet…we have JUST gotten in copies of the Xing Yi Nei Gong DVDs by Tim Cartmell. Another long wait is over…(now, we are sitting on our hands, waiting for the book to come back into print).
But for those of you holding your breath waiting for the DVD, it’s time to [...]
Jun
19
2010
19
2010
Product: First Chinese Jiujitsu book
It’s just like enjoying people, sometimes the most fun is to meet the truly eccentric…
Jun
17
2010
17
2010
Stomping Good News about Bajiquan
As most of you Bajiquan practitioners know, there is just not enough published on this powerhouse art.
Jun
11
2010
11
2010
9 Songs, 81 Postures and a Book
Just a quick note to announce we have gotten this great book back in stock: “Annotations on Taijiquan’s Nine Songs and Eighty One Postures and other selections” by Wu Meng Hsia (Wu Meng Xia) & Wu Bei Feng. This english language book translates an important title in the Tai Chi canon…not always available, but [...]
Jun
9
2010
9
2010
Dragon Fan Book
Just a quick update: We have found a few more copies of this profusely illustrated book on Choy Lay Fut Dragon Fan and it is back (at least, for a little while!) If you have been waiting to break out your fan, this is a good one!
Jun
7
2010
7
2010
Randy Williams Updated
Great news! The missing Randy Williams DVD, that is, the FIRST one on Basics, arrived today. Now, along with those announced below, we once again have a full complement of Sifu Williams’s excellent Wing Chun series.
Let the Chee Sau begin!
Jun
7
2010
7
2010
Still Circling After All these Years
One of our favorite Chinese texts on Liang Style Bagua–Bagua Palm Records–is just back in stock and, to celebrate, we are taking our other favorite english language classic on Liang Style Bagua–Liang Zhen Pu–and putting it on sale!
We’re discounting Liang Zhen Pu’s price of $17.95 to $14.25, BUT that’s not all! If you buy [...]
Jun
6
2010
6
2010
On Chin Na Practice
As I looked at the illustrations I couldn’t help but think of a few things about Chin Na which are rarely mentioned in the books but are useful for the training…
Jun
5
2010
5
2010
Randy Williams, Back in the House!
Turn in your toes, settle into your stance, and brush off the wooden dummy…Randy Williams is BACK at Plum! It has been a very long wait (too long, in our opinion) but we nagged and cajoled the publisher until…Randy Williams’s great DVD series is back in print and once again available at Plum (for those [...]
Jun
3
2010
3
2010
Eight Immortals Boxing
8 Immortals style originated in that crucial period for martial arts at the end of the Ming and the beginning of the Qing dynasties (around 1644).