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Grandmaster Wang Hao Da Master Wang is considered to have been one of the most energetic and gifted push hands artists in Shanghai. He studied many years as an indoor student of Wu Style Grandmaster Ma Yueh Liang. He was willing to share a wealth of neigong and neijing practices. He developed the highest level of sophistication of spiral neijing energy, zhong ding jing, and spine biomechanics in his form. NEW VIDEO RELEASE FROM THE LIBRARY OF GEORGE XU
It was a rare treat and opportunity to see this level of Taiji skill.
Wang Hao Da Article and Biography by J. Reynolds Nelson Pictures from Annual Taiji Camp, La Honda, California. Worth the wait if you have been to camp. See friends.
Dear Susan Matthews
Thank you for the information about Master Wang
Hao Da.
It is a sad news, I met him in June 2001 summer camp (San Diego Cal.)
with master George. By that time he had some problems with his lungs, I
noticed it, but he worked the 10 days camp all the way through.
Really he impressed me very much, since that was the first time I saw the
real qi working. I played with him push hands and he issued qi, and he
would find my qi with great facility.
One thing that impressed me, one day he sent off to the ground a
student standing at 4 meters away from him by just looking at him, he
absorbed his qi from a distance.
I must say that he changed my perception about taiji 180 degrees, since I
had studied only taiji theory and by then the concept of qi was very
difficult for me to understand.
I flew from Venezuela South America just to be with Master Wang Hao Da and
Master George Xu in California 2001 Summer Camp. He had a weird way
of doing taiji, it was difficult for me to do the movements at that time,
since his style was new to me, I was accustumed to play Yang taiji.
He threw me off to the ground every time he wanted to and then he would
laugh out loud, I thought to my self: "he goes everywhere in the
world throwing people away, laughing and making money with it,
next time I am born perhaps I will have that job".
The experience with masters Wang Hao Da and George Xu was most excellent,
I love both masters very much since they conformed an inseparable team
Wang Hao Da and George Xu.
His taiji went as far as the Amazone Jungle where we live, we still share
with our taiji friends the practice Wang Hao Da
teachings, his videos and personal experience.
The day we finished the 2001 taiji summer camp, I went to his cabin to
say good-bye, we did a little more push hands for the last time, then he
laugh out loud and I said to him "Master Wang you a rare taiji
jewel".
Amazone Jungle
Prof. Alfredo Zurita
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Master
George Xu Presents Wu Style Taijiquan Grandmaster Wang Hao Da in
San Francisco. This video contains
excerpts from key instructional moments during a weekend workshop
hosted by Master George Xu. It includes many close-up and slow motion
views displaying intricate details of most first section movements
and some second section. Viewers will find several testing sections
for analysis and simply for the fun of watching Master Wang demonstrate
zhong ding jing throwing off Xu and students. Some minutes are dedicated
to longevity massage and loosening exercises. This was the first
of Grandmaster Wang’s several trips to the USA in the late 1990s
and early 2000s as visiting teacher for Master Xu’s Summer Camp.
This video presents a variety of insights into his unique expression
of Wu Style, filmed mostly at Spreckle’s Lake in Golden Gate Park
in San Francisco. Grandmaster Wang, who passed away in 2003, was
a top student of Grandmaster Ma Yueh Liang, the legendary Wu stylist
of Shanghai who was a disciple of Wu Chien Chuan, the lineage’s
originator. Master Xu joins Grandmaster Wang in testing, push hands,
and explaining and translating internal secrets of Grandmaster Wang’s
style of Wu taijiquan, but there is a wealth of information if you
speak Shanghai dialect. This video contains fascinating insights
into his knowledge and ability that will thrill seasoned practitioners
and inspire everyone else. 
