Handing on the tradition of martial arts from China
Welcome to the website thewushucentre.ca. This is a slightly pared down site from the one that I have had up since 2000, reflecting the advancements in online resources, it doesn’t need quite so much content. Also, for quite a few years I travelled four times a year, going to China to train almost yearly, and twice a year across Canada and to England. Now I go to England in the fall and to the West Coast in the summer. I teach a few special people where I happen to be, and spend more time training on my own and working on the books.
About this website
I (Andrea Falk) play traditional Bagua, Xingyi, Chen Taijiquan, and Taiji Changquan. I translate books about Bagua and Xingyi, and have written a few books as well. This website is mostly to talk about me, the club and its group of friends, and my teachers, so that you can see that I am indeed qualified to translate and write the books.
Sorry, but the ‘next’ and ‘previous’ buttons have a mind of their own. I have put the pages in a sensible order, but if you use those arrows you get what you get.
I made a major mistake, and accidentally deleted the whole tgl books website. The people at the Green Geeks help desk are amazing, and saved me from myself within hours, on a Sunday.
The books can be found at tglbooksca.com, on Amazon, and at quite a few online book sellers (best to get directly from the printer Lulu or a small book seller). They are all available as soft cover, hard cover, Ereader, and PDFs. Plum Publications also sells my print books, and sometimes has special prices. tglbooksca.com is where the books are more clearly presented than before.
So far, the translations include Li Tianji’s The Skill of Xingyiquan, Jiang Rongqiao’s Baguazhang, Yan Dehua’s Bagua Applications, Di Guoyong on Xingyiquan, and Zhang Wenguang’s Chaquan. The writings include A Shadow on Fallen Blossoms, Beijing Bittersweet, Shadowboxing in Shanghai, and the massive Falk’s Dictionary of Chinese Martial Arts.
To keep the retro wushu side of my character happy, years ago Anthony Chan and I brought back his Beijing Wushu Team Training Video Series in digital format. I have moved the list over to the wushu centre too (the site formerly known as thewushucentre.com), where there are also a lot of photos of traditional and classic wushu. I know that people have posted them on youtube for free, but if you want an actual disc, there are still some available.
I have a website dedicated to Ma Gui Bagua, at www.maguibagua.ca. This is a personal explanation of some of the methods of the system. It is just my training notes, but people have found it helpful. I have updated it, but not changed much, mostly updated the links section.
Zen lapin insisted that this site was more important than the others, so it is up and running, though at a new url address.