User talk:Rummyness/David Chan

David Chan (Chan Joe Kee) of Hong Kong is a Chinese internal martial artist who founded the new internal martial style Xinyi Meditation. His Liuhebafa lineage is from Wu YiHui and Chan Yik Yan, and his Yiquan lineage is from Wang Xiangzhai and You Peng Xi. He learned and mastered Liuhebafa, Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, Yang-style t'ai chi ch'uan, Yiquan, in a period of 18 years before going to the Philippines.

David Chan demonstrated his internal martial skills to Mark V. Wiley, a world famous martial arts historian, author, editor, and expert of Filipino Martial Arts. After the demonstration, Mark V. Wiley is noted to have said, "I was then fully convinced of the existence and use of such esoteric and hard-to-find skills, that I continue practicing them to this day." When Mark V. Wiley god married, David Chan was his godfather.

David Chan founded and created the hybrid Xinyi Meditation system, a merging of two internal Chinese martial arts, Liuhebafa and Yiquan. The Xinyi Meditation curriculum is divided into two parts, Skills and Power, which are subdivided again to a total of 6 more sets.

Skills:

1. Liuhebafa

2. Push Hands

3. Combat Skills

Power:

1. Zhanzhuang

2. Strength Trial

3. Power Emission

Between 1976 to 2012, David Chan has taught hundreds of students but only recognizes 4 disciples who have completed the entire Xinyi Meditation system:

1. JR Rodriguez IV

2. Tristan Abara

3. Dylan Halili

4. Emerson Champ

Other achievenments of David Chan was when the famous martial artist Bruce Lee died, David Chan was the first choice selected to double Bruce Lee to finish the movie Game Of Death, along with Yuen Biao, but David Chan left for the Philippiines and wasn't able to end the movie. He was featured in several Chinese articles, newspapers, and magazines during the 1970 for his martial skills with Liuhebafa.

External links and sources

 * Xinyi Meditation
 * AN INTERVIEW WITH GURO MARK WILEY - by Alan Orr

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