A little while ago I bought some DVDs at the Xidan Bookstore. One of them was “Stance Training”, apparently one of four by Zhang GuangYu. The DVD drive on my laptop is playing up a bit, so the video and sound are pretty choppy, but the DVD actually appears to be really, really good – just what I imagined yiquan to be like… I’m just wondering if anyone out there knows anything about Zhang Guang Yu, because Google turns up nothing apart from the DVDs, as far as I can tell…

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   I did a quick Google search in Chinese and found this: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_473995c901009f9x.html In short, he has apparently learned this and that from various people (his main teacher was a grandstudent of Zhang Zhaodong; regarding yiquan, he learned some from Zhao Daoxin and later a disciple of Yao Zongxun; he also learned some bagua spear from Wang Wenkui).

   Comment by Ed — June 14, 2008 @ 5:49 pm

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   Thanks for the info! I’m not quite sure how to interpret the tone, though (the trouble with text-based information).

   “he has apparently learned this and that from various people” could be interpreted rather dismissively, suggesting that he’s not really very good – is this the impression that you got from your sources? Any idea where he’s based?

   Thanks again, though – much appreciated

   Comment by Emlyn — June 15, 2008 @ 10:40 pm

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   Hmm – sorry, not trying to be dismissive here – it’s just that since I am just looking at one Net source, I can’t really say for sure much about him (i.e. I don’t know people that know him, etc. – anyway, I didn’t know about him before). He could be really good – I have no idea.

   Comment by Ed — June 16, 2008 @ 10:53 pm

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