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Master Sam F.S Chin is in Mesa to present I-Liq Chuan. I-Liq Chuan is a wonderful and complete system. Practice consists of elegant solo and partner drills that can compliment your existing meditative, martial or fitness activities. Materials presented will be for continuing practitioners as well as those new to the art.

Even if you only practice a stand up art, primitive movements are still important to practice as part of you conditioning routine since they are those that mimic the process we all under went as babies. Rolling over, pushing up, crawling and then standing.

Here is the famous Steve Cotter (also of the Tang Shou Dao lineage) doing the "fuhugong" 伏虎功是 (lying tiger exercises). As I understand it, Xu, Hong-Ji took these movements from Judo and added them into the TSD curriculum.

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Hong, Yi Xiang (洪懿祥) founded the Tang Shou Dao (唐手道) association in Taiwan, and taught Xu, Hong Ji, (許鴻基) who in turn and taught noted American CMA practitioners like Mike Patterson, Vince Black and briefly, Tim Patterson. (I've written about the TSD before).

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Master Sam F.S Chin is in Mesa to present I-Liq Chuan. I-Liq Chuan is a wonderful and complete system. Practice consists of elegant solo and partner drills that can compliment your existing meditative, martial or fitness activities. Materials presented will be for continuing practitioners as well as those new to the art.