Grandmaster Shu-Jin Wang is an internal martial artist in Xingyi, Tai Chi and Baguazhang. In the 60s, at the invitation of Japan, he was sent by the Chinese MA Association in Taiwan, the Republic of China, to teach Kung Fu in Japan. Soon after his arrival, he received numerous challenges from Japanese MA experts in Karate, Judo, Akido and kickboxing who all looked down upon Chinese martial arts, but each of these challengers was defeated by Wang in a matter of just few seconds and couldn't get back on their feet. Wang is actually the father of Chinese internal martial arts in Japan.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I too read about Wan Shu Jin for many years and had always wondered what he looked like beyond the pictures. My first teacher's teacher was a student of his so this was wonderful to watch. His Taiji is very beautiful...reminds me of how I first learned Chen Pan Ling's form way back when...unfortunately I had to move for college and there was no one teaching the style around. Sadly I've forgotten most of the form but I do hope to relearn it one day. :)

wow, some of the best martial arts I've ever seen. Wang shu jin was the real thing.

Still like a mountain. Flowing like a river. Thank you for the comment. I like the image. There are so many beautiful ironies in Tai Chi and life: we are the most flexible and immovable when deeply relaxed; surrendering ego leads to victory (give yourself up to follow the opponent); life is not happening 'to' us but 'from' us...

These include some wonderful clips of Wang doing tai chi. Though I studied briefly with Wang before his death, and subsequently with his students, we rarely practiced tai chi in the park. These clips are actually not the form we rehearsed, and quite evidently show Yang origins.

.....Many , many times repeating this clip to see the great footage , thanks very , very much with this posting !!! Plse , show more of his taiji short form if available ,,,,,

My old teacher used to say "Imagine your upper body as an air-filled balloon, tethered to the cement block that is your lower half, and that is how you play taiji"

I met a teacher who said that Tai Chi was more about up and down than forward and back. Master Wang seems to be spiraling up and down. It looks so beeautiful to me. Thanks.

@joscofe Hello Joscofe, Thankyou for your comment. That makes sense. My wife and I were just on a short trip and I was thinking about how wether you seem to be moving forward or back you are , in a sense, always moving forward; just forward in a different direction. Then I checked the computer and there was your comment.Tai Chi is wonderful and applies on so many levels. T

@12THEANVIL1 - You're CONFUSED; Wang related to RW Smith that he was a student of Chang Chao-tung from 1929-1938. After Chang died, Wang went to Peking & studied under Hsiao Hai-po, also studying with Wang Hsiang-chai in Tientsin. Chen Pan Ling developed his eclectic style of Tai Chi in 1941, combining Wu-Yang-Chen Styles into a single form. Wang practices the 99-Step Form of Tai Chi which was the form developed by CPL, and is in a photo captioned "Wang teaching CPL's idiosyncratic Tai Chi"

@taopaw Yang style emphasizes the up and down, Chen has both up/down and back/ forth.

@wawei67 Really? I wouldnt have thought he would be keen to teach to Japanese that close to the war. Interesting.

si bu suo ong tai jia hai zhong goa riu she zhen shan mei hai she

can anyone translate the dialog?

Why is this in Japanese?

#2: @12THEANVIL1 - The photo is in RW Smith's book: Martial Musings, pp 184. So, if agreed they practice the same form, how is "Wangs system more powerful than Chen's"? Last, if you're modifying your art for "street fighting", you'r clueless... there is no need to modify arts that are already geared for fighting- hence the name, martial arts :-) Please tell us you aren't a "teacher" as your ego seems to allude to; because if so your students are being ripped off by yet another charlatan!

test........

自從自由搏擊成為主流、拳架已經無法跟上、還稍有防身之功能、若只練拳架不練功、真會越練越笨、就像警察的柔道、擒拿、逮捕術一樣比自残還可憐。