My wife, Inetta and I happened to run into Warrington while walking in Tribeca Labor Day weekend. I asked Warrington what he was up to, and he excitedly told me about this film he was producing. A protest movie against the overturning of Roe vs. Wade. Inspired by Warrington’s vision, I took a chance and offered to help, Warrington said yes. He called our chance meeting—destiny.

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Me the People vs We the people Harm vs Respect is the battlefield, frontline, strategy, and weaponry of the conflict that is engulfing the political discourse, human relations, and that is shaping policy and business in the US. We have reached a point where proponents of respect must assert clear limits to harm if we are to live in a just and equitable society. The harm is getting worse, according to a recent New York Times article titled “Domestic Terrorism” by David Leonhardt. The article cites a recent YouGov poll that asked “...if it could ever be justified for their political party to use violence to advance its goals.” Roughly 16% answered that it could be “somewhat” justified. Nearly double what it was[...]

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world. -Archimedes Give an activist enough energy and a platform on which to stand and they will change the world. -Shifu Ed

8 Points of Root—A new perspective If you have ever trained Chinese Martial Arts, then you are familiar with Stance training—Horse Stance, Forward stance, Nail Stance, Crane Stance, Empty Stance, Dragon Stance, Snake Stance—to name a few. To gracefully accomplish these while using them to express power requires Root. Let's go beyond Theory. Try This...

Can we successfully train Kung Fu and Tai Chi through zoom? Yes!We are successfully and safely training through zoom throughout the pandemic.

I remember hearing about how Lou Reed studied Tai Chi back in the early 90's when I first started studying. His fame and sincerity gave legitimacy to the art of Tai Chi when few people knew what Tai Chi was, or cared. "That's those slow movements the Chinese Elders do in the park down in the city?" On August 3, 2019 my students and I had the honor of demonstrating the Wu Chan Taiji Dao form on the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library at the International Lou Reed Tai Chi Day. "...the banality of ordinary life is replaced by the awe and grandeur of the soul." –Deng Ming-Dao, "365 Tao" Karin Alpert (top row, 6th from the right) is an extraordinary person. Her son and daughter gifted her this sword

功夫 Gong Fu- Time, effort, [energy], with attention to detail. –Grand Master Wang Tian Min and his Honored Student Shifu Ed. When you watch a master of Chinese martial arts (or any discipline) perform their art, what you are seeing is an expression of their Gong—the minutes, hours, days, and years they devoted to honing the details of their art. When a Master expresses their art form, it appears unique, effortless, natural, and is inspiring to the observer.

In a recent online Tai Chi class, an honored new student asked: "How is your style different from other Tai Chi I find online?" A very important question for anyone interested in Tai Chi. It all comes down to lineage and purpose. Martial? Meditation? Both? Read ahead to find out what makes this essential for all of us with the demands of the pandemic reality we face.

People are suffering. Stress is the suspect. Everything bad is stress. Stress makes everything bad. Many avoid stress whenever possible, resign themselves to what they can't avoid, and seek relief whenever possible. It is as if they believe more in the power of stress than they do in the power or energy. People relate to stress like it is the bogeyman of a horror movie and it is out to get them. Given the absence of energy management in the current models of stress management, they are not wrong, and for most people, it plays out like a horror story. I dislike horror movies. I do not enjoy victimization as entertainment. In a horror movie 15 victims run and scatter and the bad guy monster picks them off one by[...]