Erle Montaigue

Erle Montaigue is the head of the WTBA worldwide and we have a number of Country Representatives around the world. These are students and friends who have trained with Erle for many years and have risen to a high level of competence in Erle's system of Internal Gung-fu.

Lethal Fighting Arts Of The Maori Warrior

I HAD HEARD about the Martial Arts of the Maori, in particular the weapons. So, on my last workshop tour of New Zealand, I was granted an interview with a most revered Priest of the Maoris and keeper of the Maori fighting arts, Irrirangi Tiakiawa (Irri to his friends). This interview is quite rare, as […]

SINK

One of the most difficult and yet easiest to execute, this most important Chinese word with reference to Taijiquan will give you the exactly what the classics tell us that we should receive when practicing Taiji.   The problem that most people (well all actually) is that in the beginning we all TRY to ‘sink’ the […]

The Importance and Hidden Meaning of Large San-Sau in Taijiquan

Many Tai Chi practitioners only see the Large San-sau as a training method to gain the fighting applications of Tai Chi. However, it goes much deeper than that. There are actually three reasons that we must practice Large San-sau. The first reason is the obvious one of purely physical contact and learning about how to […]

Empty Force?

I received in my email box this week a message from some Shaolin based Martial Art system telling about some amazing video clips that I should see. The video clips were about a US based 'Martial Artist' who had just given a workshop in the UK. So, tentatively, I spent some money to wait for […]