月山館

Yueshan-guan

The Yueshan-guan (Moon Mountain Hall) is a private training activity in Seattle led by Mark Raugas that is centered around the practice of traditional Chinese internal martial arts. I am a formal lineal student of internal martial arts as part of Yin Cheng Gong Fa North America, including Yin style Bāguà 尹派八卦, Hebei Xíngyì 河北形意 and Northern Wu style Tàijí 吴式太極 under Zhang Yun laoshi, who studied under the late Grandmaster Wang Peisheng. This includes unarmed practices as well as a traditional curriculum of sword, saber and spear.

Gassankan

Yueshan-guan can be read as Gassankan in Japanese. Before moving to Seattle in 2016 I studied several approaches to classical Japanese swordsmanship associated to surviving lines of Shinto-ryū and Shinkage-ryū. I have since continued my practice as a form of shugyō influenced by my study of internal martial arts, with a focus on the analysis of kata and freestyle pressure testing. Tōsha Dōjō is a study group in Seattle maintaining a practice of the kata of Jikishinkage-ryū I learned at the Hōbyōkan. It is led by Jake Harlin and Nicky Sayah Sina; training is by invitation only after observing a practice and undergoing a traditional interview process.

気剣体の一致を会得したとき、剣術の極意は全う するのである — When one has mastered the harmony of spirit, sword and body, the secret of swordsmanship is realized

Mark Raugas