I want to share photos from the past. Here are 2 of the same posture. One from 1970 taken by my brother Florante Navarro in the Philippines and the other from 1998 taken by Laura Billingham in NYC. I started studying Yang Family Tai chi chuan in 1968 at the Hua Eng Athletic Club in Manila’s Chinatown with Master Chan Bun Te. In 1989 I studied Yraditional Yang Family Tai chi chuan in Boston with GM Gin Soon Chu.
I studied the Guandao (called the Green Dragon) with GM Lao Kim at the Hua Eng Athletic Club in Manila’s Chinatown in 1970. I studied the weapon again with Shifu John Loupos at the Praying Mantis School in Cohasset, MA in 1990. The Guandao is the weapon of the legendary General Guan Yu, hero of the epic Romance of the 3 Kingdoms.
