Welcome to the first Tai Chi Notebook Podcast of 2022. Happy new year of the tiger and I hope you are in good health. 

In this episode my guest is David Rogers of the Rising Crane Chinese Marital Arts school in the UK. 

David has an extensive background in Chinese martial arts and has been training since 1984 and teaching for over 25 years, mainly in Tai Chi  and Hap Gar, but he’s also trained people for MMA fights and been quite involved in the competition scene, so he’s got lots of great insights into the practicality of Chinese martial arts. He is a disciple of Master Deng Jan Gong, one of the most famous Kung Fu masters in Southern China. In this hour long talk we address many of the questions that we both have about Chinese martial arts in the current times, and we hear his thoughts on training Chinese arts for a mixed martial arts environment, the origins of forms and much more.

Find out more about David at www.risingcrane.co.uk