Internal Martial Arts
I maintain a practice of internal martial arts as part of a formal lineage called Yin Cheng Gong Fa. Below you will find some more information.
Essays and Articles
April 2026
Tàijíquán, along with Xíngyìquán and Bāguàzhǎng, forms the core of the internal martial arts, distinguished by their grounding in Daoist philosophy and Nèigōng practices.
May 2025
When people become devoted to a martial art, they are doing so not at a single point in time but in a process that extends through time — the present moment, the memory they have of their training, and their expectations of the future. This can interfere with progress if nostalgia for their first impression of an art is in conflict with its higher-level teachings.
October 2020
The Tàijí, Bāguà and Xíngyì taught as part of Yin Cheng Gong Fa includes an extensive curriculum of jian (sword), dao (saber), and qiang (spear).
June 2017
An important translation of the Tàijí Classics has been published. Highly recommended.
February 2017
Collected thoughts on the historical influence of Chinese martial arts on Japanese jujutsu and how they relate to the topic of aiki in Aikidō and Daitō-ryū. What interested me about internal martial arts and how I have related that experience to my practice of Japanese budō.
August 2015
At the end of summer, I traveled to Princeton for a seminar in Bāguà and Tàijí and was accepted as a formal lineal student by my teacher, Zhang Yun. I also traveled to the Pacific Northwest, where I was able to visit with budō colleagues in Oregon.
May 2011
A brief discussion of power generation in internal martial arts.