Interview on Earth-16

This interview made for an exciting Friday! Of the many I’ve been a part of lately, this one was so wide ranging; covering Maus (suddenly topical), Jabberjaw, The Matrix, The Matrix Resurrections and a handful of what I’ll continue to call Secrets from The Kung Fu Forest.

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The Anatomy of a Wuxia Novel

Simon McNeil author of The Black Trillium, breaks down the anatomy of Wuxia: more popularly know as the Kung Fu Fantasy genre

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Sifu Kuttel’s Claws of the Tiger

In today’s post we have a very special lesson to offer. Brian Kuttel is Program Director of the Doc-Fai Wong Martial Arts Center and a full-time instructor. He earned the title of Sifu and was accepted as a disciple under Tai Sifu Jason J. Wong in 2014. He has generously offered to share some of his teachings on the tiger of Choy Li Fut.

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A Brief Introduction to Tea

Excerpted from Haute Tea Cuisine: New Techniques for Tea-Infused French Cooking by F. Lit Yu
A Brief Introduction to Tea: Tea comes from the plant Camellia sinensis. Although there are many herbal concoctions, such as chamomile, that are also referred to as tea, they do not come from the Camellia Sinensis; the Tea Tree.

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Master of Kung Fu: CHAN HEUNG

There’s a new Master of Kung Fu comic this year and he’s from the 19th Century! Learn about CHAN HUENG: MASTER OF KUNG FU in this interview with author/illustrator Sifu Mark Horton (Hong Ying Sifu 洪英老师).

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Yijinjing: the original workout

Image of The Muscle & Tendon change classic (Yijinjin 易筋經) painted by Grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng

According to legend the 28th Patriarch of Buddhism called Bodhidharma wandered China sometime in the 5th Century. Also known as Tamo (達 摩) found himself at a, then unknown, monastery hidden by the small forest after which it was named; Shaolin Temple. It was there he developed the original workout, the Shaolin Yijinjing (少林易筋經).

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A tiger’s tale: an apocryphal history of the universe.

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