Saturday is always one of my best training days since I normally do not have to deal with the career job. On Saturday August 27, 2011 I had the great fortune of having the opportunity to participate in some Taijiquan and Baguazhang park classes in Honolulu Hawaii. Before my trip, I corresponded with whom I had seen his website many years previously since Tung family and Chip were both in Hawaii. I was always interested in the fast forms of Taijiquan since my 1996 visit to Shanghai were we met Dr. Li Li, a disciple of Ma Yeuh Liang and his class at Olympic park performing Wu’s fast form. I had purchased some of the Tung family demonstration videos from and had watched several of the forms before. According to Chip, Tung (or Dong) family studied with both Yang Cheng Fu and Hao Wei Zheng lineage. Tung Yieh Jie collaborated with Yang Chen Fu to put together a Fast form based on Yang’s combative knowledge, but was not completed since Yang Chen Fu’s premature death. Tung Yieh Jie also created his own second fast form based on his own knowledge, so the Tung family teaches 2 fast forms. According to Chip, the Tung family practices 4 forms: the “Slow form” or Yang long form for soft and smooth energy, the Tung family fast form and the Yang Fast form are for fajin training, and lastly the “Hard form” or Hao Taijiquan long form for cultivation of a “kai he” opening and closing using a solid, and stable energy much different than the way the Yang Long form is taught.

So my first place of visiting was ‘Magic Island’ in Waikiki that was next to the same boat docks where Gilligan’s ship “The Minnow” took off for that famous “3 hour tour”, and the beach where I went surfing. The park had four groups practicing at 7 am. One group was doing 24 form, another some Taiji sword, 3rd was a very large Japanese group doing some kind of Qigong, and last was Tung Hu Ling’s group of about 12 people. I was able to join in the Yang Long form in which there were some slight differences in a few movements, mainly the starting part of “Fist under Elbow,” the ‘fa jing’ in the kicking section, and some other sections, but not too far off from Fu Zhong Wen’s Long form variation I normally practice. Their timing was a bit slower so I got a good leg burning as the form went about 30+ minutes. I then watched and took some pictures and clips as seen here of the Tung fast set and Yang fast set. Tung’s son was very playful and demonstrated his form as well.

Chip then took me over to a Bagua class over at the other side of Waikiki near Diamond head called Kapiolani park. There was an archery field there and another but small Japanese group doing Qigong of some sort. We practiced some Yin Style bagua circling a huge tree and worked 8 various changes with his wife Xiu Zhang from Shangdong Provincial team. She is ranked 7th Duan with Chinese wushu association and knew many of my teachers. Afterward they asked me to demonstrate a form, so I showed what I remembered of a Cheng Bagua form He Weiqi had me learn. As they continued with their training in Bagua sword, Chip and I worked on the Yang sword form and chip showed me some details from the original form that are not in the more common public Yang sword form and its application. Afterward, Chip took us to his beautiful home overlooking the island.

Tung Family fast form: second clip:

Yang Fast form: Yang chen Fu and Tung Yieh Jie created form called Hua Jin Chuang or “Energy changing fist”

Tung Hu Ling’s Son:

Yin Bagua with Xiu Zhang