Joanna Zorya - Martial Synergy
www.joannazorya.com
Joanna's own website. Here you can find out more about her background and her approach to teaching.
Please note that many of the following martial arts sites on this list do not share our views on qi / ch'i or qigong / ch'i kung.
Plum Publications
www.plumpub.com
Our favourite site! Ted and Debbie sure know their stuff - stacks of articles and information for virtually every Chinese martial art there is. You can also buy literally tons of VCDs, DVDs, videos and books - we do!
Ted Mancuso Santa Cruz Academy of Martial Arts
www.reelingsilk.com
Ted Mancuso's school website.
Ted Mancuso has spent over 35 years teaching martial arts. He teaches traditional Kung Fu in California, USA and has also produced a number of excellent instructional videos on Taiji, Bagua and Shaolin Kung Fu. He is a prolific writer on the subject of Chinese martial arts and has written for publications such as "Inside Kung Fu" and "T'ai Chi Magazine". He is also the author of "Kung Fu for Young People", illustrated by Frank Hill. Additionally, Ted is the publisher of Plum Publications who distribute our DVDs for us in the Americas.
Bob Orlando's Je du-too School of Martial Arts
www.orlandokuntao.com
We like what Bob says about virtually everything - he's a Silat and Kuntao practitioner. Bob has a very eloquent, intelligent and moral approach to fighting arts. He also states on every page of his site "Our Emphasis is on the Practical" which in itself makes him a friend of ours.
Internal Damage - Advanced Tai Chi Chuan for Combat
www.internaldamagetaichi.com
A guy after our own heart - Glenn Hairston has produced a totally amazing martial Yang Style Taiji DVD here. We can't recommend his work strongly enough. Buy it and see. "Make it bang!!!"
Rob Poynton - Cutting Edge Systema and T'ai Chi
www.systema.com
Rob produces some very good "no nonsense" martial DVDs with a nice touch of humour. It is definitely worth checking out his Systema (Russian Martial Art) stuff as well as his Tai Chi.
Mike Patterson Hsing-I Martial Arts Institute / Xingyi, Bagua, Taiji
www.hsing-i.com
Mike produces some truly excellent DVDs and his site has stacks of downloadable video clips so you can see what you're getting. This guy really knows how to use these arts for fighting. Incredibly good.
Pencak Silat Serak
http://www.pencaksilat.com/
A useful and very informative site focussing on the Silat of Stevan Plinck. Great stuff.
China from Inside
www.chinafrominside.com
This is Jarek Szymanski's website. A great selection of articles and interviews with some really top-notch Chinese practitioners. The site also stocks some excellent, harder to obtain VCD & DVD sets.
Dong's International Tai Chi Quan Association
www.chipellis.com/index2.htm
A good resource with some excellent video downloads.
The Taiji Life of Hong Junsheng
www.taijichinesemedicine.com/taiji_life_of_hong_junsheng.htm
Here you can read about Hong's refreshingly practical and scientific approach to Taijiquan in an interview with his standard bearer, Chen Zhonghua. Food for the soul indeed!
Chen Zhonghua
www.chenzhonghua.com
Chen Zhonghua's own site.
CSI: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP)
www.csicop.org
For articles about qigong and pseudoscience in general. The Martial Tai Chi Association is wholeheartedly opposed to the modern qigong craze, which falsely promises its practitioners miracle cures for serious diseases, enhanced virility, invulnerability and even immortality, enlightenment and other "superhuman" powers. It is time that everyone faced up to the truth that charlatanism and occultism are far from harmless. Confucius said "without honesty you can get nothing done."
Sample articles: Sima Nan: Fighting Qigong Pseudoscience in China.
The Roots of Qi.
Adam Hsu Kung Fu
www.adamhsu.com
What Adam Hsu doesn't know about Kung Fu probably isn't worth knowing. His book, "The Sword Polisher's Record", is my number one, all-time favourite martial arts book. Buy it and read it again and again. On this site you can read excerpts from the book plus other articles, as well as being able to purchase his excellent videos.
Traditional Wushu Association
www.home.earthlink.net/%7Ewushujia/
Set up by Adam Hsu to promote authentic Chinese martial knowledge
Gerald A Sharp
www.chiflow.com
Gerald Sharp is a knowledgable practitioner of Xingyi, Taiji and Bagua. Read articles, buy videos / DVDs and view his 'application of the month' .
Konghua Xingyiquan
www.emptyflower.com
A nice looking site, mostly dedicated to Xingyi, it has some really good Quicktime video clips you can download.
Erle Montague's T'ai Chi World
www.taichiworld.com
A very generous site - Erle lets you download all of his out of print books for free. You can also buy his current resources (he's very prolific).
Ottawa Chinese Martial Arts
www.geocities.com/ottawakungfu/index.htm
This site has useful introductory articles on Xingyi and Bagua
TGL Books / The Wushu Centre
www.thewushucentre.com/
Visit this site if only to see prominent experts posing for photos with a cuddly bunny!
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Free download software so you can view our video clips
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