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      <title>My kung fu story</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Obvious Energy — Ming Jing, the Hard Power of Xingyi</title>
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      <description>What Sun Lutang recorded, as Guo Yunshen’s teaching, about Ming Jing — obvious energy — and notes from conversations with Luo Dexiu on where that power actually sits.</description>
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      <title>Cheng Tinghua — Eyeglasses Cheng and the swimming-body Bagua</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Gao's 10 Rules for Practising Baguazhang</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Finding Baguazhang</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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