A master of the Tiger Claw Style or Shàolín-Hǔzhuǎ (少林虎爪) Style, so probably Zhì Shàn (至 善), was planting seedlings in a monastery garden. Then he saw that a crane was picking the seedlings. So the monk grabbed a stick and tried to expel the crane from the monastery garden. Yet the crane deflected all […]

I appreciate the Martial Development blog because there can some great insights be found. Albeit I don’t recall or find the according blog post anymore, I recall the great insight that wrist picks are only imaginary attacks. I agree with this point of view! Yet in the case of some other blog posts, I wonder […]

Yán Yǒng-Chūn (traditional: 嚴 咏春 / simplified: 严 咏春)/ Yim Wing-Chun was the daughter of Yán Èr (traditional: 嚴二 / simplified: 严二)/ Yim Yee and originally known as Yán Sān-Niáng (traditional: 嚴 三娘 / simplified: 严 三娘)/ Yim Saam-Leung. The martial art Wing-Chun either is named after her or vice-versa. In this article series’ fifth […]

Another episode of the same documentary series was quite confuse. The Creationists mentioned the experiments, which Gregor Mendel conducted in the monastery garden of the Augustinian St Thomas’s Abbey in Brno, Czech Republic. Yet neither the experiment nor its results got explained. The Creationists mentioned Lamarckism and they mentioned epigenetics. It led somehow from nowhere […]

The famous samurai and swordsman Miyamoto Musashi distinguishes in his Gorin-no-Sho (五輪書)/ Book of Five Rings whether you hit an opponent intentionally or accidentally. Thus it at least got translated into English. But the German translation instead distinguishes between Hieb and Streich. I recently discussed this with an AI agent and the English translation seemingly […]

Stuart is asteroid #3874 and also known as 1986 TJ1. Stuart measures 8.5 km in diameter. Stuart’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.68 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.05, a period of revolution of 1’604 days, and an inclination of 7.7 degrees. Stuart was discovered by Edward L. G. “Ted” Bowell at […]

Many of my blog posts on martial arts are in truth excuses for talking about linguistics. It’s time for some linguistics in this article series, too. The Chinese language is only for political reasons treated as one language, but in reality exist several Sinitic languages, which for political reasons usually are referred to as dialect […]

Strong is asteroid #22622 and also known as 1998 KV32. Strong’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.36 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.18, a period of revolution of 1’319 days, and an inclination of 6.3 degrees. Strong measures 4.6 km in diameter. Strong was discovered during the course of the Lincoln Near-Earth […]

In this article series’ eighth part, I already briefly mentioned Fāng Yǒngchūn (方 永春)/ Fong Weng-Chun as a Crane Style practitioner or even Crane Style founder. She’s unlikely to be the founder of a martial art. She could as well simply have passed on what she learnt from Fāng Shìyù (方 世玉)/ Fong Sai-Yuk. I […]

If you did read my article on peak wrestling nearing its end, then you could have wondered why I tell y’all about the wrestling shows in German free tv, where you most likely won’t watch them. But that I watch wrestling is relevant because everything is connected with everything. For example, many of my articles […]