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Sacred Cows and Broken Noses: Confronting Martial Arts Misinformation
Sacred Cows and Broken Noses examines thirty common myths, assumptions, and reasoning errors found throughout martial arts culture. It evaluates Qi, forms, Chi Sao, sparring, lineage, conditioning, self-defense, and combat through clear definitions, functional training, resistance, and pressure testing.
Seven-Star Hard-Conditioning Practice
Seven-Star Hard-Conditioning Practice is a 1992 Chinese qigong method that combines standing work, breath regulation, seven core routines, traditional theory, and martial-conditioning aims.
Seven-Star Horizontal-Chain Qigong
Seven-Star Horizontal-Chain Qigong is a 1992 Chinese manual that records a seven-part conditioning method, its Daoist lineage story, traditional theory, safety guidance, and external-qi claims.
Simon Lui 雷龍春
Master Simon Lui is a Hong Kong-born Pak Mei instructor and herbal practitioner who carried the Lum Hung branch of Pak Mei from Toronto into a wider North American teaching network.
Sum Nung 岑能
Sum Nung was the Guangzhou Wing Chun teacher who preserved and expanded the Yuen Kay-shan branch through trauma medicine, teaching, and association work.