Great interview! John Braeley likes to talk and fortunately for us he's interesting and articulate. Mr. Bentley did a great job of letting Braeley talk with just enough coaxing and questions to keep things rolling well. Thank you 🙏
Met GM Chin and trained at his HQ for a day. He’s such a nice person. Smart, accessible to new students and his skills are for real. I’ve touched with a lot of people and his skill is elite.
I had the pleasure of meeting Ismet in 2008. He is one of the warmest and most generous people I have ever met. In 2008 and 2009, he sowed seeds in my life, and I think he might not realize how much that has helped and sustained me through all these days. And it still continues to have an impact and grow. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Actually the Ma Family calls their system Tongbei similar pronunciation to the martial art but with different characters. The Ma Family Tongbei means "to connect all and prepare for anything". The arts include in the Ma Family system are the Daqiang, Bajiquan, Piguazhang, Chuojiao, Fanziquan and other material.
Wow what a nice find this podcast is. Quality conversation and down to earth guests and host. Will be listening to other episodes too. As an additional comment to this dantien conversation I spent many years and way too many hours in grinding it based on instructions received from japanese zen and taoist teachers and while there were signposts like you discuss and advancement, I felt that it shouldn’t be that difficult and demanding. My late zen master agreed and actually left the whole traditional training system that he had pursued for many decades, he was the principal heir to his master and very famous in Jp in his own right. Anyway, then years later I received dantien instructions from a dzogchen master with a transmission and that’s when everything clicked. That’s when I learned about the purely spiritual (for the lack of better one word term) and effortless aspect of dantien which is directly linked to the energy/power generator and physical power aspects. ✌️✌️
My teacher is Mike's martial brother. I only trained with Yang a handful of times and hung out with him an equal amount. His stepping method was unparalleled to anything I've encountered anywhere else. The level of consciousness and intent his method carried is insanity. At the same time Yang was a unicorn of unfiltered honesty, judgment and poetic insults. Such a gem. "Wei!!! Your no listen!" Forever humbled.
We will definitely see if we can convince him to do more. Even though it's two hours, this interview is just a small fraction of the discussions we had. Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching and for the feedback!
White Settler Imperialist Colonialists who practice Internal Martial Arts love to keep asking about the Cultural Revolution. Their racist anti-Communism is always-already present. They never ask about The Boxer Revolution, or Western Liberalism's attempt at colonising China and the 100 years of shame. They should stick to interviewing Kuomintang fascist Martial Artists in Taiwan to get the answers they want.
Thank you for watching and commenting and for the topic suggestions. We'll keep those in mind for future videos. It's the interviewer's job to bring out the interviewee's thoughts and opinions to the public and I think Bill handled it very well. Not everything is about racism and politics. FYI, both Bill and Master Yang work together on DAOI and interact on a weekly if not daily basis. What you see in the video is a rather small snapshot of the conversation that Bill had with Master Yang during his visit to Montreal (both on and off-camera). DAOI owes Bill a debt of gratitude for making the podcast happen.
I actually forgot to mention - at 73 years of age he beat the living crap out of me every day I trained with him, which is a big part of why I went back to my students and quit teaching after 2 weeks...
Thank you for facilitating this very important conversation and btw I have also once at a workshop thanked master Zhou Xuan Yun for inviting prof. Komjathy to Daoist Gate's online conference to which he replied "Oh yes, Louis is very good, very good!" 😊
He had many students in the Columbus and Dayton Area. D one of the other club instructors is a Student of Tyrone Jackson who was one of the Dr.'s most promanate students. So we have some of his good teachings.
The way Meeks describes bagua's mud-wading step is basically identical to the way I learned Mocabu in Yiquan - my hunch is that it's v likely that Wang Xiangzhai imported that whole practice from bagua in the first place!
This was not "Meeks" from rumsoakedfist...entirely too polite, measured, and a complete lack of innuendos!! All this nonsense talk about Bagua, mudding the waters of walking with all these exercises!?! He's passing himself off as Yang Guotai's disciple and talking about walking...and not once mentioning "heel no up?" This is clearly staged. 😉
Thank you Neil and Daniel and Bill. I have been following Neil's work for sometime and Id recommend his literature on this subject too! I have read a few of his books. They are great. Look forward to checking Daniels work out. Keep it up guys! Dan Tien is a great subject and i feel this is a topic that could go on for days. Keep nourishing that beautiful glowing ball of light with the sweetest jade nectar :)
