Yizong · The Moral Dragon · Bath, UK
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Training notes, lineage stories, and writing on the Yizong internal arts.
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My kung fu story From Monkey Magic and boxing to Shaolin, Xingyi, and eight years training with master Luo Dexiu in Taipei — Ollie Smith’s path into the Yizong internal arts.
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Cheng Tinghua — Eyeglasses Cheng and the swimming-body Bagua How Cheng Tinghua carried Dong Haichuan’s Bagua into the open — from shuai jiao and an eyeglasses shop in Beijing to the Cheng-branch “swimming body” method behind Gao-style practice.
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Gao's 10 Rules for Practising Baguazhang A historical English rendering of Gao Yisheng’s Ten Rules for Practising Baguazhang — presented as lineage reference, not as today’s school code of conduct.
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Finding Baguazhang From Bill Tucker’s university class and a Canterbury seminar with Luo Dexiu to eight years in Taiwan — how Ollie Smith first found Gao-style Baguazhang.
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