Traditional Chinese Kung Fu is dying. When it dies it won’t be a homicide but a suicide. Shifus are peddling tricks to kids. Shifus that are preserving Kung Fu can’t find students to undergo the hardship of practice. Students that are willing to undergo the traditional training can’t find a Shifu to train them. Kung […]
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Travis Rath
who has written 5 posts for KaiMen.
Jan
9
2020
9
2020
Jun
15
2015
15
2015
XingYi Quan – The Five Elements: Shifu Adam Hsu
Admittedly, the prospect of sitting down to three DVDs about Hebei XingYi Quan is intimidating at best. Yet, almost immediately, you are taken into a story of practice, of history and, most importantly, Shifu Hsu’s absolute command of his topic. His enthusiasm and dedication become contagious even through the subtitles. And always there is his […]
Aug
3
2005
3
2005
On the Road to Sisyphus Falls
Sometimes the hardest thing is the world is just to keep in there. Refinement of the self can be a lonely business as Travis Rath contemplates while listening to music…
May
21
2004
21
2004
Conversation
“What? You don’t like The Matrix? Are you serious? How could you not like The Matrix? Didn’t you see them do the Kung-Fu?…”
Jan
17
2001
17
2001
The Problem of Practice
“Thoughts come when it was thoughts one came to escape…”
