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| Sifu Morgan with Master Law in his training centre, 2009. |
Master Law Lun Yeung, transitional posture. |
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| Morgan with his grandmaster, Master Hsu Yee Chung and Mrs Hsu at the Tai Chi Championships in Perigeaux, France in 2002. Master Hsu is a student of Professor Cheng Man Ching and the
President of Professor Cheng's school in Taiwan. |
Morgan
(2nd from right) at the 1st European Cheng Man Ching
Tai Chi Championships in Perigeaux, France, 2002 where he represented Australia.
In the front centre are Tai Chi masters and Professor Cheng's students Jen Pang Lo (Benjamin Lo) and Chu
Hong Bin.Standing next to me, representing Malaysia is my teacher's friend Master Teh
Seng Pheng. |
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| Morgan
visiting with Master Hsu Fun Yuen in Chicago, 2004. Master Hsu studied with
Professor Cheng for 15 years in Taiwan and is also a master of Hsing Yi Chuan.
In the background behind Master Shu's head is a picture of Tai Chi's legendary
founder Taoist Immortal Chang San Feng. |
Sifu Morgan receives a private lesson from Professor Cheng's senior student Master Maggie Newman who is also the highest ranked Western Kabuki dancer, a Chinese painter, a black belt in Aikido and a master of Zen meditation. |
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Master Eric Fitzgerald and Sifu Morgan at the Canberra based Fundamental Tai Chi school. |
Sifu Morgan with Professor Cheng's student Master Bill Phillips. |
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Sifu Morgan with Professor Cheng's student MasterKen Van Sickle |
Sifu Morgan representing Australia in the European Tai Chi Championships |
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Morgan with Sifu Eric Fitzgerald, Sifu Law and Simu Elise Law when Sifu Eric
visited Melbourne in 2004. |
Sifu Morgan attends a seminar in Detroit with Master Yuan Wei Ming (centre) of the Taiwan Shr Jung school and Professor Cheng's student Master Carol Yamasaki (bottom left). Also present is Mark Westcott, Cathy Chou and Patricia Cullotti. |
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Morgan with White Tiger Kung Fu (Bac Fu Do) master Sifu David Crook (right)
and senior student David Kwong-Wing, Canberra, Australia, 2004. |
Sifu Morgan with Sifu Mark Westcott and Professor Cheng's senior student Master Maggie Newman, Central Park, NY. |
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| Master Law corrects Sifu Morgans posture. |
Sifu Law corrects Morgan's posture, in his home training area. Tullamarine,
2004. |
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| Sifu Morgan demonstrates Cheng style Press posture. |
Sifu Morgan demonstrates the rarely seen advanced self defence Tai Chi set invented by Professor Cheng's student Master Yue Shu Ting for the International Martial Arts Alliance. It combines elements of Tai Chi, Hsing Yi, Ba Gua, Thai Boxing and Shaolin Kung Fu. |
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| Arriving
at the tournament in Perigeaux, 2002. Master Benjamin Lo's students Garrett
Chinn (first), Arnold Lee (second) and Alan Kepner (fifth - not including
Professor Cheng in the middle). Myself and Mr. Teh Seng Pheng are third and
fourth. Mr Teh is the student of Malaysian Tai Chi master Tok Seng Gim (Chock
Seng Kam). |
Working
hard for the money. Morgan working as a martial arts journalist feels the groundfighting techniques of Fudoshin
Ryu master, Soke Tony Ball during a photoshoot for Interactive Martial Arts
Magazine. |
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| Master Law Lun Yeung demonstrates Cheng style Single Whip posture. |
Master Law Lun Yeung demonstrates Cheng style Lower Single Whip/Snake Creeps Down posture. |
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| Master Eric Fitzgerald demonstrates Tai Chi Pole practice with student, Sifu Todd Parker for an IMA photoshoot. |
Master Eric Fitzgerald with student, Sifu Todd Parker and Sifu Morgan. |
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Grandmaster Hsu Yee Chung demonstrates Warding Off (right side) |
Grandmaster Hsu Yee Chung teaches the details of Professor Cheng's sitting meditation method. Sifu Morgan is in the foreground. |
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Master Yuan Wei Ming, a senior instructor at the Taiwan Shr Jung school corrects Sifu Morgan's Bear Exercise movement (Xiong Jing) |
Master Yuan Wei Ming corrects Sifu Morgan's Ward Off (right side) posture. |
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Sifu Morgan learns "eating bitter" as he must learn to relax while keeping all he weight on one leg during transition postures. Learning to relax the muscles groups of an actively weighted leg can take some time and involve some discomfort while the body realigns itself. |
Masters Law Lun Yeung & Eric Fitzgerald in Melbourne Chinatown. |
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Master Law and Sifu Morgan practice the 4 pattern sensing hands exercise, to practice the interchanging energies of Peng, Lu, Ji & An. These photos appeared with accompanying article in the Tai Chi Chuan Friendship Association Newsletter of a large provincial association in mainland China. |
Master Law and Sifu Morgan practice the 4 pattern sensing hands exercise, to practice the interchanging energies of Peng, Lu, Ji & An |
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Master Law and Sifu Morgan practice the 4 pattern sensing hands exercise, to practice the interchanging energies of Peng, Lu, Ji & An |
The old Willow Tree School centre in Rochester, New York. |
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The old Willow Tree School centre in Rochester, New York. |
The Taiwan 37 Forms team at the European Championships. |
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Sifu Morgan (foreground) attends a lesson with Professor Cheng's discple, Master William CC Chen. |
Sifu Morgan attends a lesson with Professor's student Master Wang Jin Shi. |
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Master Wang Jin Shi demonstrates his uprooting push technique on Morgan. |
Professor's student Master Chu Hong Bin demonstrates his Single Whip posture. |
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Professor's student Master Benjamin Lo (Jen Pang Lo) demonstrates his unmoveable arm using rooting energy. |
Grandmaster Hsu Yee Chung demonstrates some sensing hand techniques. |
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Grandmaster Hsu Yee Chung demonstrates his Press posture. |
Grandmaster Hsu Yee Chung demonstrates the Hold the Ball transition. |
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Sifu Morgan with friend and training partner, Sifu Cathy Chou, neice of Professor's student Ed Young. In the background Master Carol Yamasaki and Sifu Mark Westcott practice sensing hands exercise. |
Morgan with his teacher Sifu Law Lun Yeung, two of
the Shaolin Monks (pictured in traditional robes)
and Wang Feng Yi, a Wu Shu competitor and up and
coming Chinese martial arts movie star. |
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Sifu Morgan, Master Law & Elizabeth Drake.
Liz is receiving her achievement award and a prize of Grandmaster Hsu's DVD for being the first student in the Willow Tree School to achieve 100 days of unbroken practice. |
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