Episode #85 - Interview #28 - Michael Dorgan - Chen Taiji Quan, Feng Zhiqiang, Hun Yuan Taiji - Teaching and Training pt2
Description
In this episode Randel and Owen continue their talk with Taiji practitioner and journalist Michael Dorgan about training Kung Fu, living in Beijing and training Chen/ Hun Yuan Taiji with Feng Zhiqiang.
Form his Web Site:
"Michael Dorgan, who began training in Asian martial arts as a teenager. He first studied Okinawan Karate and then Korean Taekwondo before moving on to Chinese styles in the late 1970s. He trained in Northern Shaolin, Xing-I and Yang Style Tai Chi with Master Wong Jack Man in San Francisco from 1978-1984, and studied Liu He Xinyi Quan with Master George Xu from 1984-1990. For nearly six years in the early 1990s, he trained in Hunyuan Tai Chi with Master Zhang Xue Xin, a disciple of Grandmaster Feng.In 1999, Dorgan moved to China to become the Beijing bureau chief for Knight Ridder Newspapers. Shortly after settling in Beijing, he had the opportunity to begin studying privately with Grandmaster Feng, as well as with his daughter, Feng Xiuqian, and Master Chen Xiang, one of Grandmaster Feng’s most accomplished disciples."
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