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    I am thinking of learning from his son Vincent Chu. It's Yang style tai chi. Chen style is more popular now, but I have his video and it's real good. Also, there is sme sort of festival r something dwn the street and I can here every word the moron on the microphne is saying. Nw the ice cream man is driving down the street. It plays pop goes the weasel over and over till all the kids are gone and there's alot of kids around here!! It's drowning out Chritina Aquilara "fighter" over at the fest.

    right now I'm really interested in san shou and qigong/ tai chi
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    Quoted from "In Search of Yang Cheng-Fu" By Rene Navarro

    It was 3 years later that I finally had the chance to study with Master Gin Soon Chu. When I decided to study acupuncture, he was the reason I chose to relocate in the Greater Boston area. He was even more impressive when I saw him again in 1989. He was not only bouncing people, he was tying them in knots or stopping them cold WITHOUT TOUCHING them! I asked the advance students how this felt and they really could not explain, except to say that it was like something erupts inside or the muscles get stiff or a wall seems to have materialized in front. Just like that. You'll never know unless you experienced it, they said. I was told it was pushing on the level of Ching, beyond Chi. It was a release of vital energy. The alchemical change from raw Chi to primal Ching.
    Interesting...
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    • #3
      I assume you're holding back there...


      The school doesn't have a mystical vibe at all. It's been there since the late 60's. I should mention i live in Boston. Yang style tai chi and san shou are both popular here. the real in the shit city, not ****ing Cambridge.

      from today's boston globe


      Salvation in slow motion

      An ancient martial art has brought Heg Robinson, founder of the Roxbury Tai Chi Academy, from hopelessness to harmony

      By Jack Thomas, Globe Staff, 6/4/2003

      t Mississippi's in Roxbury, the air is pungent with the aroma of barbecue pork, Caribbean chicken, and buttermilk biscuits, and you don't have to wonder who among the lunch patrons is Heg Robinson, founder of the Roxbury Tai Chi Academy 30 years ago. He's the gentleman seated at the window who is smiling and serene - and strong enough, you suspect after shaking hands with him, to toss Jean-ClaudeVan Damme out the window.




      Not bad for a man who is 60 and now living his second life.

      That first one had a lot of bumps, but the ancient Chinese martial art has helped transform Robinson from a man beset by despair, poverty, and ill health to the happy, peaceful, robust businessman running a tai chi academy that grosses $70,000 a year.

      ''Where would I be without tai chi?'' he says rhetorically. ''I'd be dead.''

      Robinson has a dream, too: to convert his academy to a nonprofit institution, move it to larger quarters, and expand its scope to include acupuncture, health foods, and herbal medicine.

      One of 11 children born to a family of sharecroppers in Parkin, Ark. (population 1,414), Robinson remembers a boyhood spent picking cotton till his fingers bled and trying to avoid trouble in the Jim Crow South. If you were black in the 1950s, you were not allowed in downtown Parkin after dusk. ''The South was a dangerous place for black kids,'' he says. ''You were always afraid.''

      In that first life, Robinson saw hatred, even murder - racial stuff, like the day the white men came for his friend, Caleb, who was just 15. ''He must have gotten into trouble, but I don't know why because nobody ever asked and nobody even talked about it, '' he says. And nobody saw Caleb again until they found him 5 miles away, floating in the river, dead. ''At that young age, you never knew who was going to be next.''

      When he graduated from high school, Robinson joined the Navy - not to see the world, but to get out of Arkansas. After five years as an aviation specialist, he was discharged knowing only one thing for certain: he'd never live in the South again.

      Like a hobo in a folk song, he kicked around. He lived on the West Coast for a while, then caught a bus to Chicago. He later made his way to Cincinnati and a kitchen job in the Cotton Club, where blacks were treated so miserably he never went back for his final paycheck.

      Robinson came to Boston in 1967 to look up a girlfriend, but she'd moved on; then his health went haywire. He was 24 and broke. His hair was falling out. The pain from an ulcer was unbearable. So it made sense to him one morning, just before dawn, to take a pistol to the Fens, where he sat on the grass behind the Museum of Fine Arts and tried to determine the best moment to shoot himself in the head.

      Robinson didn't know it, but he was about to be reborn.

      ''It was April of 1967, 4 in the morning and chilly, and I was having bad feelings and wondering whether to stay in this life,'' he recalls. ''In the dark, across the grass, I saw this little guy in silhouette, dancing or practicing I didn't know what.

      ''I went back the next morning, still thinking about leaving this life, and there he was again, only this time he came over and asked why I was there. I told him I couldn't sleep. He saw the gun on the grass, picked it up, and said, `Come with me and I'll teach you to sleep, and then you won't have to do this.'

      ''I went back again and again. He taught me eight moves, slo-o-o-owly, over and over. It was hard and it hurt like hell, but after seven days, I was sleeping so deeply people could holler and not wake me. His name was T. T. Liang, and he died two years ago at 102, and what he did that morning was save my life.''

      Robinson began his reincarnation.

      He landed a clerk's job at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and, using veteran's benefits, enrolled in the New England Photography School, then in night classes that led to a degree in education from Antioch College and a job at Madison Park High School in Roxbury teaching photography. He continued to study tai chi with Liang and later with Gin Soon Chu of Brookline. The physical training and discipline began to pay off.

      ''Tai chi changed my attitude about everything - drinking, smoking, substance abuse. I just quit all of that, and I started seeing myself as a man, '' he says.

      Robinson began to teach tai chi at the Roxbury YMCA and other community centers, and in 1973, he invested $1,000 to convert a floor of his home on Highland Park Avenue into the Roxbury Tai Chi Academy. That modest investment has grown to encompass seven teachers and 150 students. Robinson teaches another 200 students, from teens to folks in their 90s, at schools and community centers in Greater Boston.

      Derrick Egbert, 52, a management consultant from Cambridge, has been studying with Robinson for a year. ''It's changed my life,'' he says. ''I'm more peaceful, more focused, and I consider Heg Robinson among the wisest men I know.''

      Tai chi is a slow-motion discipline of contrasts, both combative and peaceful, that benefits body, mind, and spirit. It is practiced by a quarter of a billion Chinese people and has grown more popular in Western countries as it has been adapted to emphasize its benefits to health. Proponents say that tai chi aids digestion and that its emphasis on breathing slowly and deeply reduces stress.

      ''If you want to have your doctor look at you and say, `Hey, wow!' then I recommend tai chi,'' says Robinson, ''because first, it keeps you healthy, and second, you don't have to worry about somebody punching you in the nose.''

      Robinson and his wife, Renee Wynn, have a son, Tao Tiger, who is 4. From a previous marriage to Mildred McLean, Robinson has two daughters, one a biologist and the other studying for a doctorate in criminal justice.

      Robinson exudes strength. The muscles in his arm - lean and long, not bulging like those of a weight lifter - are as hard as the table.

      ''Look at me,'' he says. ''I'm 5 feet 9 and look like I weigh 140, but I weigh 180. After you practice tai chi a long time, it makes your bones full, like the bones of a tiger.

      ''As I found out a long time ago, tai chi has the capacity to rejuvenate, which is why I teach it to seniors. If you want to stay away from the old-folks home, and if you want to deal with diseases you don't have to have, and if you want to control blood pressure and stay flexible and keep arthritis away from your body, there isn't anything better than tai chi. People who practice it grow old gracefully, usefully, and healthfully.''

      What about his diet?

      ''This morning I had one apple and one banana,'' he says. ''Tonight I'll have swordfish, salad, and rice. And I take vitamins.''

      Does he ever: ''I take 75 a day. This morning, with a glass of water and powdered rice, I took 50 vitamins, calcium, magnesium, B-complex, sulfur compound.''

      In detail, Robinson describes the use of tai chi for self-defense, the blocking of an opponent's hands or feet. He rises from the table to demonstrate the Golden Treasure, one of tai chi's 108 moves, slowly and gracefully.

      ''To learn that,'' he says, ''takes 12 to 18 months of hard work, but you carry it the rest of your life. With an exercise like that, you can release tension in the body and create calmness in the mind and the spirit.''

      Does he see his life as a rags-to-riches story?

      ''I don't know,'' Robinson answers. ''I used to work for 30 cents a day in the cotton fields, 12 hours a day, from sunup till it was too dark to see. Today I'm not rich in money, but if you're talking about health, then I'm filthy rich. I've got a great 4-year-old son. I'm excited about life, and nothing worries me.''

      Shall we order food?

      ''No,'' he says. ''I really can't eat. I'm sorry. When I leave here, I'll take another 25 vitamins and then I'm off to Cambridge to teach tai chi to senior citizens. And there's work to be done on plans for the new academy. I cannot die and not accomplish that, but I'm only one brick in a great wall that I hope will be standing 100 years from now.''

      After another strong handshake, Robinson is gone, and at Mississippi's, there's a sudden drop in energy.
      Last edited by lester1/2jr; 06-05-2003, 02:48 AM.
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      • #4
        also, in the baguazhang thing I got a nasty triple repost. I don't think blackdaoist needs that much pubicity. thanks and sorry about that
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        • #5
          His son's name is Tao Tiger?

          Oh, and Tupac got stopped. By the way, at the hospital where I used to work, they started calling him "Onepac". One of his balls had been shot off.... Just for your information. That's all.
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          • #6
            lol

            lol..onepak shakur

            thats fun..hehehe

            anyway..ummm where exactly is this guy?

            i live in connecticut and id love to learn some taiji..also a friend of mine lives in hanscom so i could make a nice weekend out of it..

            please tell me!!

            ahh

            peace
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            • #7
              Maestro, if you're willing to drive to Boston 2-3 times a week for taiji classes, I suggest you enroll in classes at Yang's Martial Arts Academy. Dr. Yang Jwing Ming is frickin amazing, if I owned a car I'd be commuting to his classes in boston. He teaches many things, from Shaolin White Crane, to Taijiquan to meditation, to numerous types of qigong, and taijiquan saber and jian as well. Depending upon what you enroll in, he probably won't be the one teaching the class (he spends most of his time writing books and teaching the advanced classes) but all the instructors in his school are very, very well trained. Anyway, him and the guy from the article are both excellent Sifu's if you're willing to commute/move to Boston for classes.
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              • #8
                And another thing Maestro, go enroll in Cheng Yee South Shaolin. Onassis Parungao is a really good taiji sifu who's heavy on teaching the martial applications of the yang style forms. And he's much closer to you than Boston is. Hehe, then you'll be in the same class as my father.
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                • #9
                  mebbe..

                  maybe.. i used to talk to him over the email back when he first moved here..i was gonna sit down and have something to eat with him but i never got around to it..and hes obviously been busy..

                  he gave me another email recently but i cant remember what it said..and that email account expired..

                  anyway..yea maybe ill go train with him..i dunno , id be interested in having that lunch though ehheehhe

                  atm, im not sure what my plans are, id really like to get the hell outta ct..

                  and dr ming..well hes a little shady..albeit ive never read any of his work..but im sure it comes close to the kind of stuff wkk writes and well..that might not be the best way for me to go..

                  i dunno though ...
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                  • #10
                    Just curious, what do you mean by a little shady?
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                    • #11
                      there are a few real high level tai chi people in Boston for what that's worth.

                      Bow Sim Mark, Yang Jwing Ming, and Gin Soon Chu. For me, gin soon's tai chi is a little more distinct than the other two. But it's all good. Bow Sim Mark studied wudang sword for like 10 years. In China, to some people wudang and sword is like the same thing. Like there's Shaolin kung fu and Wudang sword.

                      Yang Jwing Ming has amazing seminars. You can actually sleep on the floor of his studio for ten dollars a night if you can't find anything else. I have his hsing-i and bagua videos with that dude who's name I can't remember. They are great. I mean, he's written a shitload of books.

                      I'm a little more into San Shou and this kuo shu stuff (I'll post about it sometime) but ...um yeah.


                      Also, there's tons of new vcd's in Chinatown. Mostly from this series but cheaper. 5$ for vcd and 10 for dvd.

                      I'm not sure about the dude in the article location but Gin Soon and Bow Sim mark are in Chinatown and Yang Jwing Ming is in Jamaica Plain, right off the deadly Jamaica Way.
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                      • #12
                        Well Maestro, in your opinion he's a little shady. Personally, I like the stuff that he's written, and I think he'd be interesting to talk to.

                        And what an interesting comment about sleepovers for ten bucks in the studio. Just curious, but the last time I looked into this, it's kind of against city ordinances and codes?

                        Then again, we're talking about Boston....
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                        • #13
                          lol

                          lol

                          first person to slap me with a supena(spelling? oh doc i know you know this one) i will come and slap them

                          and what do i mean by shady? well he makes outrageous claims like wkk does..thats what i mean

                          and so does this other guy were talkin about..and ty for the locs..gonna be hard finding china town in a city ive only been to once..but there are always maps..

                          anyway..its just a little ridiculous

                          i mean..look at it this way..

                          this guy that can turn people into pretzels only does this crazy shit to his students right? you said his students said this about it or that about it..

                          well lets see him do it to me

                          or to some stranger whos got no idea what chi, china or chicanery is

                          i mean think about it..a guy who can make an invisible wall of chi and stob attacks..or point his finger at ya and you turn into a big mess of arms and legs

                          cmon

                          thats just a little to george lucas for me

                          never was a big star wars fan..i know where to draw the line

                          but i definately will be going to see this dude..since hes so damn close
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                          • #14
                            first person to slap me with a supena(spelling? oh doc i know you know this one)
                            LOL. I'm glad I'm reknowned for some sort of expertise... All those ****ing years in the legal system, and I guess I have learned something. Oh, it's spelled subpoena. You were close. I am impressed.
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                            • #15
                              Maestro; (albeit ive never read any of his work..)

                              (well he makes outrageous claims like wkk does)

                              If you have never read his works where have you heard these claims and what are a few examples. thanks.
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