the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

chenyaolong wrote:I did a language course at Ludong Uni when I lived there. The uni doesn't offer full courses for foreigners (at that time at least), but they do have a well known Wushu department, which focuses on standard Wushu routines and Sanda. They did invite my Shifu's daughter to go and teach traditional Mantis at one point, but she turned it down.

Highlights undergraduate professional: Wushu and Tai Chi Cultural Institute - Traditional Ethnic Sports (Taijiquan)

It aimed at training to engage in martial arts and heritage aspects of Chinese traditional culture professionals. The movement of professional martial arts theory and skills as the core, at the same time integrate Chinese traditional medicine, Chinese traditional sports health, Chinese folk sports, Chinese painting and calligraphy, Chinese tea art theory and technology as a whole, advocated "Harmony" Thought directed "two work" and "five Arts" pass prepared in an undergraduate training model, that is, "martial arts" and "Qigong" as the focus, taking into account the "archery", "medical art", "Huayi" "tea" is a specialty specifically set up for foreign students in China.

Main courses: Chinese cultural history, ancient Chinese philosophy, medicine based on the history of martial arts, tai chi introduction, Taiji boxing manager boxing, traditional Taijiquan, Pushing Hands, large Sanshou, human science courses and the like.

Martial arts is a distinctive program of the Department of Physical Education in Cangzhou Normal University. The department has an strong faculty, including some inheritors of martial arts and some outstanding young and middle-aged teachers. For example, Wen Jing, associate professor and Bagua boxing inheritor, is one of the “Top Ten Martial Arts Masters”in Cangzhou;
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Wen Jing, associate professor and national level referee, was normanated by the Changzhou municipal government in 2010 Cangzhou Bagua boxing inheritor. For years she has devoted to martial arts teaching, scientific research and collecting and sorting out of traditional martial arts.

Professor Jia Qingshan is the seventh inheritor of Qingping sword;

Sun Chunyan, associate professor, has for many times won the champinship of national martial arts competitions.
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Sun Chunyan, associate professor and national level referee, is appointed the outside-school technical guidance of martial arts by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. In 2010 he won the first place of the Chinese-culture-spreading Cup of Martial Arts Championship in Hebei Province in the item of Wu-style Taiji Boxing.

1. Kampfsport und Kampfkunst Etikette Grundlagen (Basic etiquette)
2. Kampfsport Grundlagen, Grundbewegungen (Jibengong?)
3. Chang Quan
4. Tai Chi
5. Nan Quan Grund-Mittel-
6. Ba Gua Zhang Grund-Mittel-fotschrittliche Routine
7. Pi Gua Quan Grund-Mittel-fortschrittliche Routine
8. Ba Ji Quan Grund-Mittel-fortschrittliche Routine
9. Zha Quan Grund-Mittel-fortschrittliche Routine
10. Liu He Quan Grund-Mittel-fortschrittliche Routine
11. Tai Zu Quan, Kun Lun Quan und so wieter

nicklinjm wrote:Honestly my experience with teachers from within the Wushu system has been pretty bad, even if they have a good traditional foundation my experience has been that most can't fight and just teach forms.

Orpheus wrote:One of my teachers studied at Beijing Sports University in late 80s, early 90s. When he was studying there, he noted that students were expected to study with a traditional teacher outside of the university system. Some other programs might do that as well.

One note on Kunming. I can't say anything about the program, but the climate in the city is fantastic. Food in Yunnan is great and there are a lot of amazing sites in the province.