INTRODUCTION First of all, I’d like to thank the DAOI team for accepting my contribution to their organisation. I feel honored to be published amongst such qualified and knowledgeable practioners of Daoist arts. In this text, based on my journey so far, I would like to lay out few issues Read more…
Hearing about Mr. Yang Hai’s view on “cultural utopianism” expressed in his Youtube video series, one can wonder how much bias plagues history as we know it. In the example he provides, credit for developing XingYi was given to General Yue Fei, an important historical figure who was actually not Read more…
Sun Lutang ruined it for everyone. That’s a cheeky thing to say, I know. Sun was a famous martial artist, philosopher, and scholar of Daoist mysticism & esoterica. His detailed books on kungfu remain popular to this day, nearly a century after his death. He is indisputably the most influential Read more…
The recent advent and popularization of mixed martials arts (MMA) have changed the perception of martial arts for multiple practitioners and for the wider public. The objective of such competitions is to emulate an environment where fighting is as realistic as possible, thus trying to recreate a context of a Read more…
There are many myths pervading in the public about the martial arts, as a result of people having watched one too many a movie about them. Among the worst of these myths, is the idea that a martial arts teacher must be modest, to the point of being poor. Yesterday Read more…