The Tai Chi Notebook

Ep 41: Teaching Tai Chi as a Martial Art with Nick Walser and Ian Kendall

Episode 41: Teaching Tai Chi as a Martial Art with Nick Walser and Ian Kendall In this episode I talk to two Wudang Tai Chi teachers from Brighton, UK: Nick Walser and Ian Kendall. Both students of the late Dan Docherty, they have continued to practice the tai chi that Dan taught them and developed a new training system called 5 Snake. 5 Snake is a unique and powerful method for finding flow, resilience, and calm through partnered close- quarter practice, and they're here to tell you all about it. Find out more at: https://5snake.co.uk/ and 5 Snake on Instagram, YouTube and Facebook. Read my latest blogs on tai chi and martial arts at: www.thetaichinotebook.com

Ep 40: Benjamin Palmer on Kempo and Xing Yi Quan

Welcome to episode 40 of the Tai Chi Notebook Podcast! Today we’re joined by my friend Benjamin Palmer. Ben has been running a Xing Yi Quan training group in deepest darkest Somerset for a good few years now, but Ben has also been training Mishima Kempo, an eclectic Japanese martial art and is thinking of starting a class in that soon. We share the same Xing Yi teacher, Damon Smith who has been a previous guest on my show. I visited Ben’s Xing Yi class a couple of weeks ago to teach his group some grappling and afterwards we sat down for a chat, and a nice cup of tea, so here we are in Ben’s kitchen! Links: Mishima Kempo: http://mishimakempo.com/ FoxFist: https://foxfist.com/ Xing Yi UK: http://www.xingyi.org.uk/

Ep 39: Graham Barlow and Seymour Yang on their BJJ book launch

My BJJ book, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Ultimate Illustrated Guidebook, co-authored with Seymour Yang is now on pre-sale at meerkatsu.com. The first edition will only be on sale until June 11, so if you want a copy, order now! In this podcast I talk to Seymour about how we made the book. This is a self-published limited-edition print run. It’s a gorgeously-printed hardback edition. At over 260 pages, with 970+ beautiful illustrations this is the ultimate coffee table BJJ book, but it doesn’t just look good, it’s designed to teach you the techniques of BJJ. We’ve got all our favourite BJJ moves from basic movements, standing techniques, sweeps, guard, guard passing, submissions and escapes. There’s also a section on the history of BJJ and lots of advice on training, strategy, concepts and principles of the art. Shipping shouldn’t be too expensive either. Remember, this is a limited edition run and when they’re gone, they’re gone! Get yours today at Meerkatsu.com [https://www.meerkatsu.com/product/brazilian-jiu-jitsu-the-ultimate-illustrated-guidebook/]

Ep 38: Ethan Murchie on Living Neijing

In this podcast I talk to internal martial artist Ethan Murchie about this teacher Vince Black from whom he learned xing yi mixed with elements of Sufism and Shamanism, as well as the North American Tang Shou Tao Association which Vince set up and is still running today. We also cover the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal medicine (the Huangdi Neijing) which Ethan teaches through his Living Neijing website, the meaning of Chinese terms like qi, peng, lu, ji and an, as well as his tai chi teacher Liang Dehua and the Yang Shouhou lineage of Yang family tai chi. North American Tang Shou Tao Association https://www.natsta.org/ Living Neijing https://livingneijing.ca/ Liang Dehua https://taijiacademy.online/

Ep 37: Ancestral movement with Simon Thakur

Simon Thakur is the founder of Ancestral Movement "An ecological approach to movement and mind-body practice, exploring ancient ancestral patterns of movement and awareness built into our bodies, rediscovering the power, grace and ease of natural movement and our bodies’ innate connection to the rest of the living world. In this episode we cover many subjects including Yoga, Chinese Martial Arts, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Tai Chi, Shamanism and more! Simon's website: https://www.ancestralmovement.com/ Simon's new online practice group https://www.ancestralmovement.com/member-site-homepage-1 [https://www.ancestralmovement.com/member-site-homepage-1] The Tai Chi Notebook: https://thetaichinotebook.com/