Taijiquan and Fujian White Crane
Prior to learning Tàijíquán, Teacher Huang Sheng-Shyan was a renowned exponent of White Crane in Fujian province, China. From the age of 14 he learned White Crane directly from Xie Zhong-Xiang, who was already an old man. After a few years of personal tutelage and still, only in his late teens, Huang was sent by Xie to study…
By Paul Fretter A link between our system of Baihequán and Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate Do is understood to be via Higaonna Kanryo, an Okinawan who was the teacher of Miyagi Chojun, the modern founder of the Goju Ryu Karate Do system. Thanks to many years of painstaking research by historians such as Patrick McCarthy, it has become…