http://www.tandao.com A Martial Arts Blog. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:23:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At TanDao, we say martial arts is more than fighting. When the warrior’s way of action blends with the monk’s way of stillness, the disciplining of mind, body and spirit for combat is elevated into a path of self-development.  This is the legacy of the Shaolin Temple. Yet we recognize martial ... http://www.tandao.com/2010/03/14/fight-quest-mano-y-mano/ There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.~ Charles Baudelaire Baudelaire's quote captures the spirit of the TanDao Evolving Martial Artist. In Taoism, the bagua follows the flow of nature and the phases of life. We use this concept to ... http://www.tandao.com/2010/03/05/warrior-scholar-monk/ Imagine: having the opportunity to spend a year working with the master who taught Bruce Lee kung fu. Awesome! In 1982, I wrote and directed the first video on Wing Chun - The Science of In Fighting, with Wong Shun Leung. He was one of Grandmaster Yip Man’s inner circle ... http://www.tandao.com/2010/02/28/bruce-lees-teacher-wong-shun-leung/ This awesome Lion Dance ushering in the New Year is spectacular, performed at Pearl River Mart in New York City's Soho district by the Wan Chi Ming Hung Gar Institute troupe. Toni filmed this ceremonial lion dance performed for centuries throughout southern Chinese villages. And here we are in our ... http://www.tandao.com/2010/02/23/lion-dance/ The Year of the Tiger celebration lasts two weeks. A week ago, we marked the New Year by launching our martial art ebook and video - TanDao Tiger Combat Series. Toni, our resident Taoist & Chinese cosmologist, cautions this year of the metal tiger will provide ongoing challenges. But ... http://www.tandao.com/2010/02/21/tiger-omen/ Kung Hey Fat Choy! Happy New Year! It's a tiger year---rrrrROAR! http://www.tandao.com/premium-videos/ http://www.tandao.com/2010/02/14/year-of-the-tiger/ How inspiring to turn a half century birthday into a celebration. To mark his 50th, Neil Hall, Chief Instructor of London Chinatown Tae Kwon Do, took the challenge of creating a new martial art, Ensodo. In the spirit of the zen circle, the enso, Ensodo is a soft system ... http://www.tandao.com/2010/02/03/an-evolving-martial-artist/ We are implementing a new feature. Each week we will select a question from our forum or social media network: facebook, twitter, etc., and answer it on our blog. This week's question is from twurman on our TanDao forum: Regarding the 1982 Tiger and Crane Shaolin Kung Fu Lawrence choreographed, wrote, directed ... http://www.tandao.com/2010/01/30/hung-gar-tiger-and-crane-today/ Kicking it old school! Here's the opening sequence from Wing Chun - The Science of In Fighting, an instructional video that Lawrence wrote and directed in 1982. It features the late Grandmaster Wong Shun Leung, a legendary figure in Wing Chun and the world of martial arts. As one of ... http://www.tandao.com/2010/01/29/wing-chun-the-science-of-in-fighting/ Lawrence wrote, directed, choreographed and was featured in this 1982 video, Tiger and Crane Shaolin Kung Fu. We were surprised to find a few of these on You Tube. The Hung Gar tiger and crane forms are demonstrated by Master Chiu Chi Lin, a descendant of the style's originator, who ... http://www.tandao.com/2010/01/22/tiger-and-crane-shaolin-kung-fu/