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		<title>Fast and Slow</title>
		<link>http://pullupachair.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/fast-and-slow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Elihu
One day, while visiting the old stomping grounds of Hong Junsheng in the summer of 2004, we had the chance to spend some time with one of Hong&#8217;s most senior disciples, Meng Xianbin, in Jinan due to rather sad circumstances. A little man of 82 years of age at the time, Meng is listed in the Grandmaster&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pullupachair.wordpress.com&blog=786321&post=80&subd=pullupachair&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Horse Expert -by Todd Elihu</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Master Chen Zhonghua is a great storyteller. I have often found myself a member of a captive audience as he relays instructive Chinese folk tales or anecdotes of his teachers&#8217; life experiences. Recently, while discussing the true and the fake in Taijiquan, Master Chen told me the story of &#8220;Bo Le the Horse Expert.&#8221;
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		<title>Chest of Steel -by Chen Zhonghua</title>
		<link>http://pullupachair.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/chest-of-steel-by-chen-zhonghua/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a hot summer day in the practice hall of the Wah Lum Temple in Orlando. A young Danny Abrahms was trying to learn Chen Style Taijiquan from master Li Enjiu. Danny had been a student of the Wah Lum system for many years. He was quite eager to learn this new system but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pullupachair.wordpress.com&blog=786321&post=60&subd=pullupachair&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silk Uniform -By Chen Zhonghua</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the maxims that Hong Junsheng lived by was never to bend to authority. This soft spoken old man was said to have a character of steel.
In 1981, the sports commission of the Shandong Province organized a large martial marts demonstration in celebration of the Chinese culture. The gala affair was to be held [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pullupachair.wordpress.com&blog=786321&post=45&subd=pullupachair&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Master Watermelon Peel -By Chen Zhonghua</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1991, Hong Junsheng revealed the identity of his secret Taiji master to me. I was quite surprised by this &#8220;secret transmission&#8221;. I had never heard him mention any such master, other than Liu Musan (his Wu style teacher) and Chen Fake (his Chen Style Taiji master).
The secret was revealed to me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pullupachair.wordpress.com&blog=786321&post=44&subd=pullupachair&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wai Bu Li Shi Kang -by Gordon Muir</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the learning of Chen Style Taijiquan, my teacher, Chen Zhonghua, always advocates the idea that one has to go through fundamental changes of the body in order to accomplish real Taiji acquisition.
However, to cause real changes to occur is not easy. For instance, in the learning of Taiji one has to switch from external [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pullupachair.wordpress.com&blog=786321&post=40&subd=pullupachair&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Can of Pepsi -by Todd Elihu</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elihu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One afternoon during our full time Taijiquan studies, in the Hunyuantaiji Academy studio in Edmonton, Master Chen Zhonghua spoke of the mysterious, spiritual borderlands between yin and yang called ling. This gray area created by the overlap of the two extremes is exemplified within the art of a true Master. The Master is not stronger, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pullupachair.wordpress.com&blog=786321&post=47&subd=pullupachair&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Standard -by Chen Zhonghua</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Feng Zhiqiang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[§ Introduction
Feng Zhiqiang is the ultimate example of Taiji. He is a paradox and a harmonized contradiction. He is the most common retired old man and yet the most feared legendary master. He is our only link (as of 2001) to the time of fists and swords, of legends and heroes, and of dedication and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pullupachair.wordpress.com&blog=786321&post=6&subd=pullupachair&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Life of Taiji -by Chen Zhonghua</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My master was Hong Junsheng. He was the most prominent disciple of the 17th generation standard bearer of the Chen family, grandmaster Chen Fake. Hong’s ancestors came from the city of Ningbo in Zhejiang province, yet he was born in 1907 in Yuxian County in Henan province. Yuxian is a small town close to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pullupachair.wordpress.com&blog=786321&post=5&subd=pullupachair&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jinan -by Chen Zhonghua</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In August 1979, a long waited letter came from the national university recruiting office. In it was a cover letter and a letter of acceptance from Shandong University. The Foreign Language and Literature Department of Shandong University had accepted me into the English language and linguistics department. For three days, I cried, hid in my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pullupachair.wordpress.com&blog=786321&post=3&subd=pullupachair&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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