 Above image from www.baguaplam.com, probably taken around 1928, when Yang Cheng Fu (front row, center) was Chief Instructor of tai chi at the Nanjing Central Martial Arts Academy. Fu Chen Sung (front row, person to the left of Yang Cheng Fu) was Chief Instructor of pa kwa at the same school.  Sifus from the Nanjing Nanjing Chung Yang Kuo Shu Kuan (Central Martial Arts Academy). Front row: Principal, Chang Chih-Chiang (3rd from left); Chief Instructor of Pa Kwa, Fu Chen Sung (2nd from right); Chief Instructor of Shaolin, Wang Tzu-P'ing (far right). See also: http://www.jiangschool.com/academy.htm Photos below from the Pa Kwa Chang Journal. Plum publications: CD ROM of the Pa Qwa Chang Journal         Fu once demonstrate using the stone by bouncing it repeatedly from his chest into the air. When one of his students asked to learn this, he refused, saying the student would end up breaking his ribs trying to. |