Nearly forty students, representing many European countries all joined GM Chin and son for the full week, and weekend training. In total, eight countries were represented, including Poland, Ukraine, Germany, Russia, Belarus, Netherlands, Croatia and the UK.
11 students graded for their next levels in the Zhong Xin Dao I Liq Chuan system from levels 1-4. Congratulations to all on making it to the next step in your journey with I Liq Chuan!
Outline
Each days training progressed as follows
Time/Date
Monday
11 nov
Tuesday
12 nov
Wednesday
13 nov
Thursday
14 nov
Friday
15 nov
Saturday
16 nov
Sunday
17 nov
Monday
18 nov
8:00-9:00
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Qigong & Meditation
Qigong & Meditation
Qigong & Meditation
Qigong & Meditation
Qigong & Meditation
Qigong & Meditation
Breakfast
9:00-10:00
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Breakfast
Breakfast
Breakfast
Breakfast
Breakfast
Breakfast
Check out
10:00-13:00
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Training
Training
Training
Training
Training
Training
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13:00-15:00
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Lunch & Rest
Lunch & Rest
Lunch & Rest
Lunch & Rest
Lunch & Rest
Lunch & Rest
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15:00-18:00
Check in
Training
Training
Training
Training
Training
Training
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18:00-19:30
Dinner
Dinner
Dinner
Dinner
Dinner
Dinner
Dinner
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19:30-21:30
Sifu talk
Self training
Self training
Self training
Self training
Examination
Ending talk and feedback from participants
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Thank You!
Thank you to everyone who participated and made this event such a great success. Your support is what makes it all possible.
GM Sam Chin appears for a second interview on YouTube with Hollywood fight choreographer Leo Au Yeung, best known for his work with the Ip Man movies starring Donnie Yen.
This interview discusses the three planes and possible application to any martial art.
This year is the 2nd cohort of the BALANCE Learning Community of 18 incoming first-year students who take Lan and Nancy’s 3-credit academic course, “Conflict and Cooperation,” in the fall. The Zhong Xin Dao / I Liq Chuan curriculum stands at the heart of this course, which is part seminar and part movement-lab.
Lan and Nancy are also happy to announce that one of the newest students from their ZXD Philadelphia group, Henry Pitcairn (student level 1), who moved to Denver, Colorado end of August to go to college, is starting the official student organization: The Community College of Denver (CCD) ZXD ILC Club. While the organization will initially exist only as a CCD organization, students from two other nearby universities will be able to join as they all share a campus at Auraria: University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) and Metropolitan State University (MSU). The club is also open to community members.
Even though he has only been in Denver a couple of months, Henry has made fast work of building on his enthusiasm for Zhong Xin Dao I Liq Chuan. He sought out ZXD instructor Ken Forsythe in Fort Collins, CO when his dad, Jeremy Pitcairn (student level 2) helped him move westward from Philadelphia, and Ken soon put him in touch with his ZXD student and new group leader in Denver, Eric Campbell (student level 3). Henry is enlisting the help of two fellow CCD student leaders, Dee Garcia and Mary Sawyer as well as economics professor Dr. Scott Brocket in the role of faculty adviser. We’re looking forward to Henry visiting the East Coast over the Thanksgiving holiday and training in Philly and NYC.
ZXD ILC Philadelphia, PA (USA)
Nancy Watterson and Lan Tran, in their role as Co-Directors of the ZXD Academic Approach, have been
busy in 2018 with various academic initiatives. Their proposal, “Stillness and Motion: Using Body
Mindfulness to Observe and Connect” has been accepted for the University of Pennsylvania’s
Ethnography in Education Research Forum (Feb. 2019 with Rich Kelly and Ezekiel Mathur assisting in the
presentation). In October, Nancy and Lan presented at another scholarly, peer-reviewed conference as
part of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACMHE) Conference held at the
University of Massachussetts (Amherst).
On Cabrini University’s campus, Nancy and Lan piloted the inaugural cohort of the “Balance Learning
Community” for 18 first-year students enrolled in “Conflict & Cooperation,” a full-credit academic
course which revolves around Zhong Xin Dao; the course also fulfills the Values Core Curriculum
requirement for the University. Nancy and Lan received a small grant from the 1976 Foundation to
travel to the instructors’ retreat in Oregon, offered several on-campus ZXD mini-workshops to faculty
and staff across the disciplines, conducted an on-line session for graduate students in the Masters of
Education program, and gave short interviews for the campus radio station and student newspaper.
Beyond these academic endeavors, the Philly group traveled to Baltimore, MD for the Taiwan / US Tai
Chi Cultural Exchange in May (with Lan and Inari gave a demo), gained some new members and
welcomed returnees: Lan and Nancy became disciples of GM Sam Chin at the Fishkill Intensive (Feb.
2018), 4 members (Lan Tran, Nancy Watterson, Raj Singh and Ezekiel Mathur) graded for level 4 and
Ezekiel also joined them in completing his Instructor level 1; two students (Dwight Epps and Bruce
Tomascik) recently graded for student level
1) 10 Feb 2018 I did the exam for 2 children from my group (14 years old), they showed 3 dimension fajing and butterly iliqchuan form. Now they got 4th junior student level.
2) 17 feb 2018 Iliqchuan team (26 students) participated in Moscow Kung-Fu Championship in taolu taichi form with 21 iliqchuan form, in taolu fast forms with butterfly form, then butterfly form with butterfly knifes (children), push hands and da- dzen (fighting on the soft swords, children). The first time children showed butterfly form bare hand in competition.
The results: 16 gold,11 silver, 11 bronze. The team was consisit from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg students from 4 ILC coaches: Alex Skalozub (sportclub KANON), Daria Sergeeva (sportclub KANON and sportclub TENGU), Marina Gubnitskaya (sportclub KOKON) and Daniil Novikov (sportclub PODNEBESNAYA). The Iliqchuan team also got special Cup and Diploma for group demonstration of 21 ILC form (5 people).
The results of ILC Team:
Coach Alex Skalozub, sportclub KANON, adults:
– Araslanov Andrey – gold in push hands, gold in fast forms, gold in taichi form
– Kulikov Sergey – gold in push hands, bronze in fast forms, bronze in taichi form
– Malakhova Tatiana – silver in push hands, silver in fast forms, bronze in taichi form
-Orlova Dina – gold in taichi form, silver in push hands
Coach Daria Sergeeva, sportclub KANON, children 13-15 years old:
– Arkhipov Egor – gold in push hands, gold in da-dzen, silver in fast form with pare weapon
– Zverev Ilya – gold in push hands, gold in da-dzen, bronze in fast form with pare weapon
– Bogdanov Egor – gold in push hands
– Markachev Artem – gold in push hands
– Savosin Fedor – gold in push hands
– Badaev Ivan – silver in push hands, bronze in da-dzen,
– Malakhov Svytoslav – silver in push hands
-Zdetovetskaya Yulia – bronze in push hands
-Orlova Vlada – bronze in push hands
Coach Daria Sergeeva, sportclub TENGU, adults:
-Zadernovskaya Tatiana – gold in push hands, gold in fast forms, gold in taichi form
On August 29, 2009, the founder of I Liq Chuan – Chin Lik Keong, officially announced his eldest son – Chin Fan Siong (Sam F.S. Chin) as the
1st Lineage Successor Holder of I Liq Chuan.
The ceremony was held during the same time as the founder’s annual birthday banquet at Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Everyone in attendance received an autographed copy of the newly published – 2nd edition I Liq Chuan System Guide.
In celebration, the founder also gave an one week intensive workshop.
