5 Tong Bei Basics and Applications - Rosa Mei 

Thanks for your support! Very glad you find the videos useful. I'll post more :)

@@Bionickungfu :) that would be greatly appreciated!!!

@@Bionickungfu We can't wait! :)

I do some in my livingroom.❤

In fact tong bei is the mother style of mantis. A lot of tong bei practitioners actually come from mantis. This was true for me as well as Kim Haukland, the other instructor at Zhen Wu Prague. We practiced 7 star and 8 step mantis primarily but also six harmony style. The German and American Zhen Wu practitioners also all come from mantis. I actually film every week with my students. I'll try to be better about posting more regularly. Thanks for your feedback!!

Maybe Chi Gong will help!❤

Hi Robert! Miss you guys! I know you are always training like a maniac :)

@@Bionickungfu Exept 4 weeks covid infection break from 15 oct.. Yes ! Now back on track ;) 👍😉

Thanks for your feedback!! I've been training martial arts over 30 years now and at a certain point I plateaued. I had already learned hundreds of kung fu forms, did 13 years of aikido, a bazillion stretch kicks and stance training... but what was missing in the kung fu training for me was functionality. All the ma bu training and punching the air really didn't seem to make anyone a better fighter... it just wasn't functional. That's what I love about the tong bei. It is 100% functional, from the first basic drills to weapons forms. I completely changed my teaching approach a few years ago and I see the difference in my students now. I guess my feeling is if you have 100 or 1000 hours to train martial arts, you need to decide what are your priorities, what are your goals. If it is a purely aesthetic endeavor, I can appreciate that as well, also because I'm a dancer... but I don't believe in non-target oriented kung fu training anymore. I also believe very strongly in teaching correct fa jing or use of breath and vocalization from day 1 (usually they say after 10 years... add that. I completely disagree) . I will post more videos and I will make one as well that answers your question about the fighting posture for tong bei. Even within different styles of tong bei (which is a relatively unknown branch of Chnese martial arts) there are wide variances.

@@Bionickungfu It sounds like you and I had a similar journey! Around 15 years into my training I had learned so many techniques, principles, etc., but there were huge gaps when it came to application. I and my fellow instructors were getting plenty of forms and techniques, but without the details or explanations necessary until years after the fact. After 15 years, "You're not ready yet." just didn't make any sense. In the years since I've realized that everything we learned was applicable and effective, but the techniques that didn't make sense were just a matter of us lacking an explanation. So many masters have been so tight lipped for so long that their arts are dying. Much appreciation for helping to save a truly amazing art!

@@Bionickungfu Praise the mighty algorithm. For the most part I agree with you. We practice forms for health, and to stretch the ligaments, and to retain a memory chip of the 1001 techniques. Applications are however king. Your kung fu is no good if you can't defend yourself, or if you die at thirty. I'm glad you have this outlook. Just don't throw the baby out with the bath water. I teach my students conditioning all the time, combat self defense first, chi-kung meditation second, and aesthetics last. The ghettos of D.C. and Baltimore are unforgiving. Good luck with your training. All the best to you.

Hope all is well, Herwin!

@@Bionickungfu Yes Rosa i train also a lot on your exercies from Tong Bei.+ on the skills from Howard with Bram.

I don't think there is one, to be honest. It is still a closed door system in China, so sharing of information on Tongbei is pretty rare.

Yes. Our Wuxing Tongbei lineage comes from Masters Zhang Ce (张策) and Zhang Zhe (张喆).