Tongbei book recommendations

[northern_mantis]

Is anybody aware of any good English language books solely on tongbei. I can only find the one on amazon by Peter Jaw (anybody read this?) and nothing elsewhere online.

Thanks

[kenneth fish]

There are only a couple of books on Tongbei in Chinese that are worth reading, and none that I know of in English.

[vagabond]

Lu Shengli’s book “Combat Techniques Of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua” has a little on tongue, as well as baji. zhang yun and strider clark have produced an instructional dvd, and zhang has written a couple of articles, more about history than technique

[allen2saint]

The instructional DVD is pretty comprehensive. The "Combat Techniques" book has good basics gong fu stuff, but very little specific Tong Bei stuff

[northern_mantis]

Thanks guys, DVD ordered. Does anybody know if Peter Law is a legit teacher. He's got some material online but there's no real third party comments on him.

Thanks very much

[allen2saint]

I can't find anything on him. Can you send a link?

I briefly studied with the NYC affiliate to Strider's school.At that time, they were the only school I could find who did this stuff openly in the US that I knew of. That was probably....yeesh, 10 years ago now.

Also, if you search youtube for "Strider Clark Tong Bei" you will find some clips of him demonstrating stuff on a pretty game student.

[Lu da]

Sifu Strider Clark's gungfu is excellent. I highly recommend his dvd, he has a very good understanding of fighting.

[northern_mantis]

I can't find anything on him. Can you send a link?

I briefly studied with the NYC affiliate to Strider's school.At that time, they were the only school I could find who did this stuff openly in the US that I knew of. That was probably....yeesh, 10 years ago now.

Also, if you search youtube for "Strider Clark Tong Bei" you will find some clips of him demonstrating stuff on a pretty game student.

Cool, really looking forward to getting the dvd. Here is a link to the Peter Jaw book. Definitely not going to win any awards for the writing but was wondering whether the techniques are at least authentic as a starting point?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tong-Bei-32-Han ... ds=tongbei

Love that Strider Clark hotel beatdown youtube vid. One of my top ten things on the interwebs!

[allen2saint]

I don't know a thing about the community beyond Strider's family. I know some others here have practiced Tong Bei extensively, so they may be a better resource.
But hey, if you're out there on your own, just trying to pick up some info, what's a few bucks to learn something new?

My impression was a person needed a really solid base of gong fu first before doing this stuff. But have fun. If I had the means and someone was closer to me, I would have loved learning that art.