Old Beijing Yin Style Baguazhang instructor based in Tokyo. Senior student of Master Xu Shi Xi. Martial artist, Sichuan chef, and fluent speaker of both Mandarin and Japanese. Co-transmitter of Yin Style teachings alongside Shifu Marc Mastrandrea.
Bagua
Forms
Internal Training
Hand Techniques
January 2002 - Present
Teaching Yin Style and health cultivation practices Bilingual teaching (Japanese & Mandarin)
January 2000 - Present
In the early 2000’s Simon started studying (遊身連環八卦掌) swimming dragon, also known as swimming body Baguazhang under master (馮正宝) Feng Zhengbao who Simon stayed with him for up until his retirement as well as studying under, Paul Imperatrice, who was, master, Feng Zhengbao’s top student.
“The divine mechanics of the Eight Trigrams are infinitely profound, but the movement never starts from the palms…” 八卦神機妙無邊未從動於掌…
In today’s episode I have two guests joining me, Simon Lockett from Japan and Marc Mastrandrea from the USA, currently residing in Beijing. Simon Lockett has lived in Japan for the past 26 years. Originally from New Zealand, He studied under Feng Zhengbao for 8 years fully learning his Bagua Zhang system. More recently he started to study Yin style Bagua Zhang under Xu Shixi through his close friend Marc Mastrandrea. Marc is originally New York, he is a qualified Chinese medicine practitioner. He started his Chinese martial arts studies in New York, and in 2016 Marc decided to relocate to Beijing in order to further his studies with Xu Shixi in Bagua Zhang as well as Chinese medicine.
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