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13/08/2014 10:43
I am working behind the scenes with two international organizations in order to “legitamize” our ranking system and provide our students with third party rank recognition.
I feel this is important in the event that any student wishes to pursue the teaching of either of our art forms at a facility...
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06/08/2014 07:07
Yesterday I spent 10 hours in the car travelling back and forth to Windsor to meet with Master Art Mason of the Peaceful Warriors Martial Art Institute. Master Mason is an 8th degree Hapkido and 5th degree Kyusho practitioner with over 30 years in the arts.
Master Mason had generously agreed to...
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31/07/2014 14:11
Last night at class we talked a bit about walking the line between Hun & PO, the world of physical reality and the realm of the energetic reality. To experience true taiji one must experience this at least once while doing the forms. I say this because if you never experience the energetic...
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28/06/2014 08:53
Congtratulations to the following members for successfully achieving new ranks:
Gord - 6th Ji
Duncan - 6th Ji
Ritzko - 6th Ji
Karen - silver eagle (old curriculum)
Great work and I look forward to your continued success!
Rod
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27/06/2014 00:00
As of July 1st there will be major changes at the club, not the least of which is transferring the classes to the newly renovated and air conditioned upstairs studio! So please start entering by the back entrance.
Fees are also changing to $50/month for a full membership. This allows members...
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01/06/2014 07:16
This student's writing was inspired when learning the 2nd section of the 108 long form set where our training concept is root.
From a Student (with permission)
"I was thinking about root and my relationship to my root on my drive home last night ( while I was trying to feel root through the...
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26/05/2014 06:52
We hosted Master Evan Pantazi if Kyusho International over the weekend for a course that dove into not only the anatomical targeting and quick results that are the trademark of kyusho but also the legendary Dim Mak techniques.
Using taiji as a basis Evan skillfully took us through some of our...
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18/05/2014 07:39
Next weekend is the Kyusho seminar with Master Evan Pantazi.... very exciting!
I look at incorporating the kyusho knowledge into our tai chi practice as a very high level skill set and something that I very rarely hear any other tai chi club doing. The only tai chi masters that I know of who...
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11/03/2014 17:36
A student came to me last night and related how there's a difficult situation brewing in her life and how she had recieved some advice on how to fight back.
Luckily for her, she plays tai chi and knows that fighting back and adding to any conflict will never resolve a problem. Instead she related...
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08/03/2014 07:58
Master Evan Pantazi has expressed a desire to come to our club and teach a seminar as well as do a filming of how to integrate kyusho/dim mak techinique into the taiji forms.
Master Pantazi is without doubt one of the world's leading "pressure point" masters and learning from him could be a...
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