By Shawn Cartwright
Real Chinese Internal Boxing*, or Nei Jia Quan as it is called in Chinese, is designed to get you home alive. It is not designed for sport or for entertainment.
But there’s more to it than that. Much more.
One thing most people don’t realize is that these arts are not just for fighting. It is true [...]
By Shawn Cartwright
As a Kung Fu and Qigong teacher, you get to meet all kinds of people.
One day I received an interesting call. I answered the phone and introduced myself.
The voice on the other end said, “So you teach Wing Chun?”
No greeting or introduction. But the timing was not a coincidence as I happened to be practicing [...]
By Shawn Cartwright
Generally speaking, the first part of any culture that gets exported is its products. It is pretty easy to understand why we got silk, spices, and china from China before we got philosophy and Kung Fu. Trade goods don’t need context, just cash.
China has been trading with the west for thousands of years. But where [...]