The Path of Traditional Martial Arts

Thoughts and lectures about the spiritual side of the traditional martial arts.

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

PASSION

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  by Yang Shuangxing Watch a classmate perform a given form...then watch the same thing when it's performed by your teacher or a tourn...
Monday, August 31, 2026

NO SECOND PLACE WINNER

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  by Phillip Starr A well known master of the handgun once said, “In a gunfight, there are no second place winners.” True! In fact, in an...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

THERE'S NO NEED FOR TENSION!

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  By Yang Shuangxing Many martial arts devotees firmly believe that they're to tense their muscles like iron just at the moment of impa...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

MIND YOUR MIND

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  by Phillip Starr We all know (although it sometimes seems otherwise) that we have a brain. It's a marvelously complex thing. If we ...
Friday, August 28, 2026

STANDING AT THE DOOR

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  by Yang Shuangxing Quite a number of martial arts practitioners undertake the study of their chosen discipline in the hopes of following ...

MAKING THE BED...

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  by Phillip Starr It's something I do every day, within an hour after getting up. I make my bed. I've done this since I was a bo...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

JUST THE RIGHT TONE

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  by Phillip Starr One of the anecdotes featured in my book, THE MAKING OF A BUTTERFLY, talks about how my sifu, Master W.C. Chen, chided o...
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Phillip Starr
Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, China
I began training in the martial arts in 1956. My primary art is Yiliquan kung-fu, which I developed after training with my teacher, Master W.C. Chen (a student of the legendary Zhang Zhaodong). I am also a yudansha of Kyokushin karate, and a certified instructor of the Pekiti-Tersia arnis system. I was the first kung-fu stylist to become a U.S. National Champion under the auspices of the USKA (United States Karate Assn) in 1976. In 1992 I came out of retirement to become U.S. National Champion once again. From 1991-95 I was the National Chairman for the AAU Chinese Martial Arts Division, which became the largest kung-fu organization in the nation. I have authored five books to date; The Making Of A Butterfly, Martial Mechanics, Martial Maneuvers, Hidden Hands, and Developing Jin. I lived in China for 3 yrs.,in the bowels of the dragon...Liuzhou City, Guangxi Province, China. and have now returned to Omaha, NE. where I continue to write and teach traditional Chinese martial arts.
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