Manco from China a year and a half now. It had never happened in the past nine years, from January 2001 when I decided to go to study baguazhang with what seemed to be one of the best instructors that I was able to get information from Italy. I remember the bitter cold of that year - 18 ° C below zero - remember the bitter taste in the throat of the air saturated with black soot, in a metropolis of 15 million people heated with coal.
more time passes and more I see the luck I've had in nell'imbattermi Master Sui, and begin this journey of thousands of miles on a circle of a few feet in circumference, I do not alienate, particularly from my traditional beliefs about gongfu, but at the same time leads me further and further, to a virtually infinite growth.
We are planning our first trip to Beijing as a school, and the memories fly back to 2001. I see eyes and expectations of some of my students have the same look full and excited that I had. I know that they too will experience those feelings that made me naively thinking about living a dream, as stated by the dazed look that appears in the video.
The video takes the official ceremony by which the Master Sui accepts me and other students as disciples in the house of the Grand Master Li Ziming. It was the summer of 2001 in fact, and the house of Master Li Ziming soon to be demolished along with others in the neighborhood to make room for a sad commercial area. Of course, the house itself was not of value, despite being an old dazayuan in Beijing, but the sentimental value was priceless. In his study of Master Li had done his research and Dong Haichuan baguazhang, searches that were a good starting point for the work of Prof. Kang Gewu. In the courtyard they met teachers of a generation ago, and trained their students. That same house was the headquarters of the association of baguazhang founded by Master Li, the first Wushu Association is dedicated to one style only.
In the Lounge you can see several photos They portray the Master, some with his grandchildren. The small room where the ceremony is held is his studio. You can recognize the altar with portraits of Dong Haichuan (the only authentic and never painted), and Liang Zhenpu, in addition to the many paintings came from the hand of Master Li.
that my memories and my nostalgia can be a boost for my students, in continuing in that tradition.
In October, Beijing!
