Thanks for the replies guys.
Gao Jiwu is someone i didn't know much about. So thanks for the info on him, i also dug out my old Bagua journal and read a little about his father. He defo sounds interesting, is there anything on the web that i can find out about him? (I have a quick search myself in a second)
[EDIT: Found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovkKiXedfNY and this
http://www.51bgz.com/index.html (in chinese)]
I knew Ma Chuanxu emphsised the basics but i am happy with that also. And if i can return to Beijing regularly i could live with it.Though i am only goin for 6 months next year the new bullet train means i can be in Beijing in 4 hours from Shenyang so i will plan to returning every couple of months or so afterwards (family allowing!)
Thanks for the info on Zhu Baozhen as well, always good to hear from people who have 1st hand experience with a teacher.
Josh, still studying Tongbeiquan but my teacher's main thing is taiji, so i feel my tongbei is not progressing, though i will continue to practice it in conjunction with my taiji. (The jibengong fits very well with the taiji single movement stuff we do). So going to see your teacher would perhaps be a very good thing from that point of view and definately an idea at that.
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