Hello everybody, was wondering if anyone here knew of an yiquan school in manchester/stockport? or if anyone was up for just meeting up do some practice? cheers! timo
hi timo i lived in Beijing for 18 months training with yao cheng guang. i'm in manchester area. i tried to pm you but for some reason it wouldn't let me. if it works for you pm me and maybe we can meet up cheers John
hi there, i've pm'd you, i've also trained with yao chengguang, but only for a couple of months. if you haven't got my pm, then repost here!
google is your friend here... but a brief summary. it was created fairly recently by an artist who was convinced that cma were becoming more about forms, superstition and less about practical training methods and fighting. so he created his own art called yiquan, also called dachengquan. it is derived from the founder's experience in many arts, but particularly from hsing yi quan. players of yiquan will practice large amounts of static and near static postures, continually seeking deeper relaxation and the feeling of whole body movements. to aid this, imagery often plays a key roll. once comfortable with that, bigger slow movements are introduced. and finally fast, explosive movements are used. none of these movements are performed in a linked form. they are all stand alone exercises. partner exercises like pushing hands are used. a bit like a cross between tai ji quan and wing chun chi sao. pad work, bag work are also a big part. it's mainly a fist fighting art, though it does train knees, elbows and a few kicks. but it's not like tai ji quan which is more of a very close quarters/grappling thing.
Manchester Hey, I do Xingyi and am in Manchester. Haven't really found much in the way of schools for the internal arts, though, so I train alone. I would be more than happy to meet other IMA people.
Beijing, Yao Laoshi Hey, I'd be really interested to know what the scene is like in Beijing, especially for Bagua. Would appreciate any information. And how was it like, to to train with Yao Laoshi?
When talking about yiquan and Yao Chengguang, you could be interested in seeing some clips: Old clip with Yao brothers [ame]http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=G-ZBR51Tewg[/ame] Yao Chengguang and students demonstrating tui shou and san shou [ame]http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=Txq-r6lr_zg[/ame] Yao Chengguang teaching in Moscow Russia (and me assisting and translating) [ame]http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=CzVr6bWLm3w[/ame] Bu Yi - he used to work as coaching assistant at Yao's school in 1990s [ame]http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=6JjknAERE-8[/ame] Liu Chuncheng - was the coaching assistant before Bu Yi [ame]http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=Omzz1UczoVg[/ame]
Dont think there is any yiquan classes in Stockport But if you want Kung Fu, you could always try Wing Chun at the United Reform Church in Heaton Moor, on Monday and friday Evenings.
Yi Chuan training Hi, Wonder if your still around, I would like to train in Yi Chuan, previously 2 years ago I used to go reading to learn from Karel Koskuba, if you'd like to train let me know where to meetup and when I would liek to continue especially the push hands practise.
Hadster, Are you enquiring in regards to Yi Quan in Manchester/Stockport? If so, we used to have a member (banned now) who was teaching (?) / training up there, also I think his teacher was around that area too. If so, let me know, I think there may be a way to get in touch with him via youtube.
Hi, Thanks inthespirit, I am looking to train in manchester as travelling down south is too much. If anyone wants to get together or find this guy who teaches then that would be great.
No worries. The guy I mentioned is here on youtube, if you have a youtube account just send him a message, he’s a pretty chilled out and straightforward bloke, can mention inthespirit from MAP directed you there and sends his best: http://www.youtube.com/user/FamilyQuan He used to post on MAP using this account: http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/member.php?u=30122 From what I remember, his teacher is/was this guy: http://www.jin-long.co.uk/ Though it does not state on the site that the guy teaches Yiquan, but I do remember him saying that he does not teach it unless asked or something like that… Also, forgot to mention, I did a few seminars with Karel a good few years back, he is a really good teacher and has a very fine sense for adjusting students mistakes.
There's always this place: http://www.manchesterkungfu.com/index.html Heard a lot of good things about this school.
