On June 2, seven members of the Lotus Dragon family attended the TIMA Instructor's workshop and Grandmaster Look's birthday celebration. The subjects covered included the Guang Ping short form, push hands, hsing-yi staff, and tai chi spear.  There were about 20 participants in the workshops led by some of Sigung Look's senior students, including Sifu Dug.

One of the more interesting subjects was the first 16 movements of the 64-movement Hsing-Yi staff form. We are hoping to share these movements with the Lotus Dragon students in the next few weeks. Sifu Randy Sugawara has offered to come to Albuquerque and share the entire form with us. Sifu Randy is Sigung Look's most senior student.  If you are interested in having Sifu Randy come and teach this seminar, please email Jonathan at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please vote early and often.

There were about 50 people in attendance at Sigung Look's Birthday Celebration.  The food included sushi made to order by a live sushi chef, bbq, seaweed salad, and other delicacies. 

World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is a worldwide celebration of the healing and health benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong. People, across racial, economic, religious, and geo-political boundaries, who share a common vision of hope & healing for our planet and her people come together worldwide on the last Saturday of April every year; and then, at 10 am local time in every time zone across the planet they begin to practice their Tai Chi and Qigong to create a wave of healing energy that circumnavigates the globe and to provide an example multicultural and international co-operation to the world.

This year the event was held again at Los Poblano's fields and was very well attended, with about 40 participants.  Sifu Dug - who brought the observance of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day to New Mexico in 2007 - led the crowd in Tai Chi Qigong, the Chen Man Ching Tai Chi form, a Guang Ping Tai Chi short form, and conducted a workshop on the Five Animals Frolic Qigong form (the oldest known Qigong Form).

This event continues to be a great success and Lotus Dragon is grateful to all the participants and the Albuquerque Open Space staff to allowing us to utilize this beautiful location for this event.

Again our kung fu family will be training Tai Chi, Bagua, Hsing- yi and Qigong on the beach and in the Atlantic Ocean Sunday July 21st to Thursday the 25th. We'll be doing Tai Chi and Qigong on the beach every morning, Push-hands, Hsing-yi in the surf in the afternoons and Bagua in the park in the evening, as well as spontaneous trainings on various weapons and other advanced forms. We'll also include trips to various fun East Coast cities and attractions.

Afterward we'll be attending the US International Kuoshu Championships at the Hunt Valley Inn in Hunt Valley Maryland which is about 20 miles outside Baltimore. This is still the best run and most organized Chinese Martial Arts Tournament in North America. We always have lots of fun with Kung fu family and friends at the Kuoshu Championships. Here's the webpage: http://www.usksf.org/

On the same weekend the National Qigong Association's 18th annual conference will be held at the Hilton Double Tree Valley Forge in King of Prussia, PA, Friday, July 26 - Sunday, July 28th. There will be 24 sessions, special keynote addresses, impromptu Qigong and musical gatherings, plus all the wonderful camaraderie you would expect from the friends of the NQA. Gary Giamboi their Outreach Chairperson has personally invited our Kung fu family and asked that our family members contact him when we get there. Here's their webpage http://nqa.org/2013/01/the-2013-nqa-conference/