Kung Fu Secrets

Tiger Talk Teaser

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Beginning On Tuesday February 1st aTigersTale.com will host a new feature. Tiger Talk: informal conversations with some of the great minds in Martial Arts! We’ll be discussing the Lunar New Year of the Tiger, the Tiger’s place within Martial Arts and the kung fu community. Just a short list of the guests who’ll be appearing.

  • Gene Ching: Publisher of Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine, Author of Shaolin Trip and 2nd generation layman disciple of the original Shaolin Temple of China.
  • Anthony Kelly: Kung Fu instructor, coach and holder of over 50 Guiness Book of World Records, including Most arrows caught while Blindfolded and most punches thrown in one second (Spoiler more than Muhammad Ali and/or Bruce Lee).
  • Master Robin Leong: World renown kung fu master, actor and author of the children’s picture books The Kung Fu Force and the Tower of Doom (2020) and The Kung Fu Force and the Perilous Boba Whirlpool (2021). Master David Wei:
  • David Wei (魏 资 容, Wei Zi Rong, “Wayfarer of Vast Capacity”), is a 16th generation lineage holder of Wudang Zhang San Feng Pai and founder of the Wudang West Cultural Heritage Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit wellness ministry, based in Oakland, California, committed to the practice and preservation of classical Chinese healing arts.
  • Sifu Brian Kuttel: Program Director of the Doc-Fai Wong Martial Arts Center and a full-time instructor of Choy Li Fut.

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Sifu Kuttel’s Claws of the Tiger

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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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Comics Unscripted / Black Widow

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Kylar Merrel, host of Foriegn Press Comic’s podcast Comics Unscripted and I enjoy an indepth conversation about comics, Taoism, martial arts and Marvel’s Black Widow who won out over the Tao of Pooh for our book club conversation. But Winnie proves to be a winner in his own right! Find out how…

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A Tiger’s Tale: Tamo & Tea

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It is said the 28th Patriarch of Buddhism, Bodhidharma was also know in China as Tamo (達 摩). As the founder of the Zen school of Buddhism and Shaolin Kung Fu, there are many firsts attributed to him. This is just one such tale.

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Yijinjing: the original workout

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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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Protected: Tiger’s Tale’s Secret Code

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The Tale of the Tiger

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In both the Chinese Zodiac and the Martial World of Kung Fu, the Tiger is venerated for its tenacity and ferocity. Indeed, it could very well be argued that it is the most powerful of the real life animals embodied in both the aforementioned landscapes.

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