The Tibetan White Crane Style actually is only named White Crane Style, but called Tibetan for distinguishing it from the Fújiàn (福建) White Crane Style, and is a sub-style of shīzǐhǒu (獅子吼)/ The Lion’s Roar Style. The Tibetan Monk Ādátuó (阿達陀)/ Ah-Dat-To, also known as the Dai Dat Lama, lived during the fifteenth (some say […]

In the first article of this article series, I wrote: “If you’re floored, yet not done, and your opponent prefers to wrestle, then your opponent will use several so-called guards to keep you down. […]” This has been the eighteenth point. Yet a position chosen for keeping you down isn’t a guard. It is a […]

Lǚ Liúliáng (呂 留良) was a historical person, who was born in 1629 A.D. and passed away in 1683 A.D. and was a poet. When a nephew of him three years after the fall of the Míngcháo (明朝) got executed for opposing the Qīngcháo (清朝), Lǚ Liúliáng (呂 留良) joined the military movement, which tried to […]

Kua’kua is an exoplanet in forty-eight light-years distance and also known as LHS 3844 b. (The light-year by the way isn’t a scientific unit.) Kua’kua is thirty percent larger than Earth and also a stony planet, hence has about double the mass as Earth. LHS 3844 is a red dwarf star and Kua’kua orbits it […]

I was shocked to read that a school in Massachusetts uses electric shock devices on disabled children. Not a mental hospital with dated methods, but a school! Can anybody still wonder that many Europeans see the USA as a part of the Third World?

Some people hear voices. These often claim to be God or Jesus. Yet they abandon people, who hear them, right in the moment, when they would need advice. So these voices are likely to be mere hallucinations or even something evil. Some affected people try to test this by double-checking the voices’ statements with the […]

Fāng Zhǎngguāng (方 掌光)/ Fong Cheung-Kwong shall have been a monk of the Southern Shàolín (少林) Monastery, yet also the father of Fāng Qīniáng (方 七娘)/ Fong Chat-Neung. She shall have been his only daughter or even his only child, yet her personal name means “Seventh Daughter” and thus contradicts those ideas. This indeed is […]

Survivalists are hobbyists, who love stays in the wilderness and who also teach how to cope with the wilderness if for whatever reason stranded there. If you strand in the wilderness, then your main concerns are to find potable water and to get something to eat. Many people, who had never been in the wilderness, […]

A search engine’s AI agent recently and surprisingly told me that aikidō (合気道) isn’t a topic on my blog. So I asked it what Phoibe.home.blog is about. The search engine’s AI agent replied: “The content is characterized by deep dives into specific, often obscure subjects rather than general lifestyle or news commentary.” It also called […]

In a comment section on the Martial Development blog, I found some interesting insights in the fighting styles of US armed forces and police forces. These seem to be based on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, yet only partly. The article to the comment section is about a real fight at a fast food restaurant in Texas. What […]