The story goes that the brother of Wu Yuxiang (founder of Wu/Hao style tai chi chuan and also the student of Yang Luchan and Chen Changxing) found a copy of the "Taijiquan Lun" (Tai chi chuan treatise) in the back of a Beijing salt store. For this reason, it is sometimes called the "Salt Shop Manual" or "Salt Shop Classic." Read More...

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It might be theoretically possible for a punch to travel faster than the speed of sound* for a very short distance. (*about 355m/s or 1130 ft/s or 1230 km/h or 770 mph) But this would only be possible if one could conserve the momentum of the whole body and transfer it efficiently to the fist.

In classical mechanics momentum is equal to mass times velocity. P=mv Read More...

It was with great dismay that we learned of the attack on Sunday morning by assailants who are alleged to have used “nunchucks” in the attack. 

But we were also appalled to read the article describing the attack as a “Martial-arts-style beating” and claiming that the alleged assailant, who is charged with attempted murder, “tore a page form a martial-arts textbook”

There is no such thing as a “martial-arts-style beating!”, and there is no martial arts textbook that advocates such a beating. Read More...