Xingyi Martial Arts Club

Happy Chinese New Year!

Tuesday Nights are standing grappling for our martial arts club. 100 hours of practice at any skill you will be better than 80% of the world population at that skill. It does not take 20 years to become proficient, it only take 1-2 years of dedicated practice.

What a nice Shuai Jiao throw. Frank Kyle with Sun & Moon Martial Arts Studio teaching.

Leg Pressing Very Fun

It is about that time of the year for another competition to test oneself. Hosted by Ohio International Kungfu Taichi Association and Sen Gao.

8/2/2025 at 9am in Columbus Ohio.

Push Hands, Sparring, and Forms. See flyer below, and I hope.to see you there.

Some Shuai Jiao basics, "Sickle" of the leg from the outside.

Sickle

There has been nothing but a whirlwind of events since the Arnold-Kumite Classic. So this post is a few days late.

I am very proud of the guys who took part in the competition. You pushed yourselves in your skill building. You tested yourselves against others of various styles and systems of standing grappling.

Sean- You came to me with a background in Chen Taiji with some teachers with good reputations, like Ken Gullette. However you had very little experience with push hands. You first asked me to help you get better at push hands. Later you desired to learn more about the Sun Style. I hold nothing back in my teachings. No secrets, no magic, no gatekeeping, just hard work and practice like Sun Lu Tang told his students on his deathbed. Only practice will develop skills in martial arts. Well my Friend, enjoy your gold medal. You earned it through hard work and dedication training over the past 2 years. You have defeated former Arnold Classic champion. As a teacher I can not be more proud of your developments. I know you are moving in a few months and I hope Scott M. Rodell can help continue to develop you in your future sword training when you move.

Austin- 2 Bronze medals was a good hual for your first Arnold event. You came to me wanting to develop better standing grappling. Thus far you have learned a lot of new skills and throws. You are constantly improving and we will keep pushing to new heights and skills together. Your basic skills are becoming very strong, and you are now seeing things you want to develop and work on. That is such a great place in ones training moving towards advance skill and understanding. You have finished learning all of the Sun Style Bagua this year. Now we will look towards training for Sen Gao 's tournament in August. We have a lot of work to do so you can win it.

To anyone else in the Dayton Area, if you want to develop standing wrestling skills, or want to learn Taijiquan, Baguazhang, or Xingyiquan come out and join us at the Xingyi Martial Arts Club.

A very honest interveiw. I know exactly why they scrubbed it off the internet the best they could. It is the same reason the PRC attacked Xu Xiaodong over his challenging of "Masters" specifically the current head of Chen Family Taiji. It is all about image and money. Protecting the tourism money to Chen village, Wudang Mountains, Shaolin, and Hong Kong. Every year millions of dollars floods in from Westerners and outsiders wanting to come learn "Authentic " kung fu. Only thing is a vast majority of kung fu was gutted for health purposes only. There is a huge MMA combat sports movement in China. There are a lot of Sanda, BJJ, MT kickboxing that is currently growing in China.

If you do study a Traditional Chinese Martial Art, remember you must subject it to rigorous pressure testing through sparring, fighting, and competition. Otherwise, you are just dancing and obtaining no fight skills.

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