“All we have to decide is what to do 

with the time that is given us.” 

 

- J.R.R. Tolkien

 

 

 

“We have to dare to be ourselves, 

however frightening or strange 

that self may prove to be.” 

 

- May Sarton

 

 

Tai Chi Chuan & Aikido

- L'incontro dell'armonia

 

 

A.s.d. Il Tempio del Tai Chi

Due discipline, due culture, due maestri... un'unica armonia. 

 

- M° Alessandro D'Oria (Tai Chi Chuan) 

 

- M° Marco Rubatto (Aikido)

 

 

 

 

“I have no special talents. 

I am only passionately curious.” 

 

- Albert Einstein

 

 

Yang Yu Ting, Tai Chi Master

 

 

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This is from an appreciation for Wu style Tai Chi master, 

Yang Yu Ting who taught Tai Chi for over 70 years. 

 

 http://www.plumpub.com/kaimen

 

 

 

 

 

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, 

but rarely admit the changes it has 

gone through to achieve that beauty.” 

 

- Maya Angelou

 

 

Wang Maozhai & Yang Yuting

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(Wang Maozhai was one of Wu Quanyou's (founder of Wu-style tai chi) three primary disciples. When Wu Quanyou's son, Wu Jianquan, moved from Beijing to Shanghai in 1928, Wang remained to lead the Wu-style Beijing group. He was the founder of the Beijing Tai Miao tai chi Research Centre.)

 

Wang Maozhai - Born: 1862 ~ Died: 1940   Wikipedia 

Wang Maozhai and Students

 

Wang Maozhai formed the famous Taijiquan organization Beiping Taimiao Taijiquan Association (北平太庙太极拳研究会) in 1930. Taimiao was the temple where emperor’s family performed sacrificial ceremony to their ancestors. It became a public park after the Republic Revolution. 

 

On any given day, at least one hundred people, sometime more than three hundred, would practice at Taimiao. This was the biggest Taijiquan organization in northern China at that time. Wang Maozhai’s senior disciple, Yang Yuting, taught most public classes, and Wang taught more advanced students. 

 

Wang Maozhai became very famous during that time. Many people learned with him, and many people came to challenge him. Wang, his disciples and grand disciples never lost a fight in the twenty years they were at Taimiao (they moved out in 1951). 

 

From Ying Chen Gong Fa Website.

 

 

 

 

“We have to dare to be ourselves, 

however frightening or strange 

that self may prove to be.” 

 

- May Sarton