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Master Law & Sifu Morgan
Master Law Transition

Sifu Morgan with Master Law in his training centre, 2009.

Master Law Lun Yeung, transitional posture.
Sifu Morgan & Master & Mrs Shu
Sifu Morgan, Ben Lo, Chu Hong Bin, Teh Seng Pheng

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.

Sifu Morgan & Master Hsu Fun Yuen
Sifu Morgan & Master Maggie Newman

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.

Sifu Morgan & Master Eric Fitzgerald
Sifu Morgan & Master Bill Phillips
Master Eric Fitzgerald and Sifu Morgan at the Canberra based Fundamental Tai Chi school.

Sifu Morgan with Professor Cheng's student Master Bill Phillips.

Sifu Morgan & Master Ken Van Sickle
Sifu Morgan with Professor Cheng's student MasterKen Van Sickle
Sifu Morgan representing Australia in the European Tai Chi Championships

Morgan, Yuen Wei Ming, Carol Yamasaki
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.

Sifu Morgan & Master David Crook of Bac Fu Do
Sifu Morgan, Mark Westcott, Master Maggie Newman
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.

Master Law corrects Sifu Morgan's posture
Master Law corrects Morgan's posture

Master Law corrects Sifu Morgans posture.

Sifu Law corrects Morgan's posture, in his home training area. Tullamarine, 2004.
Sifu Morgan Press
Sifu Morgan Yue Shu Ting's Self Defence Form

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.

Sifu Morgan France
Sifu Morgan & Soke Tony Ball

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.
Master Law Single Whip
Master Law Lower Single Whip Snake Creeps Down

Master Law Lun Yeung demonstrates Cheng style Single Whip posture.

Master Law Lun Yeung demonstrates Cheng style Lower Single Whip/Snake Creeps Down posture.

Master Eric & Todd
Master Eric, Sifu Todd, Sifu Morgan

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.

Master Hsu Yee Chung Ward Off
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.
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.
Masters Fitzgerald & Law
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.
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
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.
The old Willow Tree School centre in Rochester, New York.
The Taiwan 37 Forms team at the European Championships.
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.
Master Wang Jin Shi demonstrates his uprooting push technique on Morgan.
Professor's student Master Chu Hong Bin demonstrates his Single Whip posture.
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.
Grandmaster Hsu Yee Chung demonstrates his Press posture.
Grandmaster Hsu Yee Chung demonstrates the Hold the Ball transition.
Shaolin Monks Master Law Sifu Morgan
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.
Elizabeth Drake, Sifu Morgan, Master Law
 
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.