Shifu Alan Ng Kee Shifu says "My master name is 林伯炎 Lin Boyan student of Dong Yinglie, also know as your grandmaster." (Scroll all the way down for more info on Dong Yinglie and Lin Boyan)
what we learnt - aa at 12 Sep 2025 (week 8)
25 July to 12 Sep 2025 (FRI) - 8 sessions
19 Sep to 14 Nov 2025 (FRI) - 8 sessions (rain - lessons cancelled)
28 Oct 2025 to 27 Jan 2026 (TUES) - 8 sessions (rain, power failure - lessons cancelled)
5 Dec 2025 to 20 March 2026 (FRI) - 8 sessions (rain - many lessons cancelled)
27 March 2026 (FRI) to 5 June 2026 (FRI) - with shifu - 8 sessions
12 June 2026 (FRI) to 7 Aug 2026 (FRI) - 8 sessions
14 Aug 2026 (FRI) to Oct 2026 - 8 sessions
learning: Yang Style Taijiquan - 2025-2026 - 108 form (or 85 form)
- 18 form (Singapore) - 13 mixed form (Singapore) - 8 silken brocades (Qigong)
learning other Martial Arts - 2026 onwards
* 七星螳螂拳 - 7 Stars Praying Mantis Quan
Mantis - “躲剛” - Duǒ gāng - evade force or hide from danger
* 快拳 - Kuai Quan - fast fist or fast boxing (created by Dong Yingjie)
* will learn weapons soon (start with Taijijian 太极剑 Sword) - followed the seniors with shifu's sword in July 2026 * sword, dao/sabre, fan
2026 - Beginner's Taijiquan Competition, 50+ years * training in Oct - every Sunday Morning * competition in Nov 2026
To Chee Kan and Florence (to chee kan from hk helps with warm up sessions)
Ho Koon Boh (teaches other new beginners) (Michael's Tues Class) - mr lee (teaches me/beginners) (Michael's Tues Class) - mr liew (teaches the senior students)
师兄, 师姐, 师妹, 师弟 Classmates:
6 of us in same batch - sadly my memory for names and faces terrible :(
- SK (Siew Khim, serangoonsec school VP/teacher)
- NEO (he's learnt WU style taichi) - left around nov/dec 2025
- mo qing i think (china girl staying yishun)
- qiyang or "claw" (young boy from ITE - wants to learn self defence)
- ms ? (lawyer from hk) - left after 1st 8 sessions, no time
- Chieko - Japanese lady from Tokyo (NEW from April 2026)
师兄, 师姐, 师妹, 师弟 Classmates:
- Neo - previously learnt WU style taichi - Koh Siew Khim SKJ - VP Sec Sch (serangoon) - Mo Qing i think (girl from china) - lives in yishun - Qiyang or "Clas" - 18 year old ITE student - also learns karate, wants to learn fighting taichi
- Chieko - Japanese lady
Terms: Shifu (師父): "Teacher-Father" or master, a term of great respect for one's primary instructor. Shimu (师母): Means "Teacher-Mother," the honorific title for the Shifu's wife
Within this structure, seniority is typically determined by when a person joined the school or was accepted as a formal disciple, not necessarily by age.
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3D jelly "cake" made by Angeline (Siew Noi)
below: julie sent me half a photo, not sure why LOL
The eight techniques 八法 Bafa represent the eight fundamental methods of training the body’s power, and lays the foundation of all the skills and techniques of taijiquan.
Taijiquan’s basic movements center upon wubu (五步 five steps) and bafa (八法 eight techniques, eight gates) with a series of routines, exercises and tuishou (推手 hand-pushing skills performed with a counterpart).
八法 Bafa refers to
1- HEAVEN - peng (棚 ward off), 2- EARTH - lü (捋 roll back), 3- WATER - ji (挤 press), 4- FIRE - an (按 push), 5- WIND - cai (pull down), 6- THUNDER - lie (split), 7- VALLEY - zhou (elbow strike) and 8- MOUNTAIN - kao (lean).
Dong Yingjie (Tung Ying-chieh) 1898 - 1961 was one of Yang Cheng Fu's inside students and became a recognised master of Yang style tai-chi. In this video he performs the complete Yang slow form or set of movements. The video quality is poor having presumably been originally filmed with a cine-camera before being transcribed onto VHS tape and then digitised but it remains as one of the best demonstrations of how this set was originally performed. c.1950.
Mr. Lin Boyan graduated from the Shanghai Jingwu Physical Education Normal School, where he learned Tan Tui (a style of martial arts) from Zhao Lianhe, Eagle Claw from Chen Zizheng, Mantis Slash from Luo Guangyu, and Xingyi from Geng Xiaguang.
After graduation, he stayed at Jingwu, teaching in various Jingwu groups in Shanghai, Hankou, Guangxi, and Fujian. During this time, he had the opportunity to associate with senior masters such as Yang Chengfu, Wu Jianquan, Sun Lutang, and Huang Bainian. Favored by General Li Jinglin, he partnered with his classmate Pang Yizhi, learning Wudang sword techniques.
Later, he became a disciple of Master Dong Yingjie, systematically studying Yang-style Tai Chi. In 1940, he traveled south to Singapore and Malaysia, pioneering the spread of martial arts overseas. He taught martial arts at Chung Cheng High School in Singapore, the Selangor Jingwu Association in Kuala Lumpur, Nanyang University, and the Kowloon Hall, among others. He also served as a Chinese language teacher at Chung Cheng High School and Nanyang University. In 1967, he served as the president of the Singapore Kowloon Hall and initiated the establishment of the Boyan Tai Chi Fitness Association, dedicated to the promotion and development of Yang-style Tai Chi.
Today, Tai Chi is flourishing throughout Singapore and Malaysia, largely thanks to Mr. Boyan's pioneering efforts. In 2004 and 2005, Ershui visited Singapore twice to exchange ideas on Tai Chi, interacting with many of Mr. Boyan's students from various periods and meeting his daughter, Ms. Lin Yuting, the current president of the Boyan Tai Chi Fitness Association. Ms. Lin Yuting, inheriting her father's profession, is humble, unassuming, yet possesses a strong and capable spirit. Seeing Ershui's admiration for Mr. Boyan's graceful and refined Tai Chi postures, she showed him several volumes of photos of Dong Yingjie, Dong Huling, and Mr. Boyan from various periods, including photos of their boxing and daily lives, and presented him with Mr. Boyan's "Notes on Tai Chi." These notes are clearly not a systematic treatise on Tai Chi. Judging from the content, they are Mr. Boyan's casual notes of learning experiences or teaching insights from different periods of his Tai Chi studies.
From these seemingly trivial fragments, we can not only glimpse the rigorous and sincere attitude of the older generation of martial artists towards boxing, but also discover the rules and mysteries of Yang-style traditional Tai Chi Chuan between the lines. It truly is a ladder from beginner to expert. Therefore, its lack of systematic structure only makes it more precious. To facilitate reading, Ershui has compiled these notes into text, numbering and punctuating each entry with independent meaning. As Ms. Lin Yuting said, "Those who understand will cherish it, those who don't will discard it," this is offered to those who are destined to read it. Continue reading here - 林伯炎 LIN BOYOAN NOTES - https://taiji.net.cn/article-8869-1.html
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