Piggy banks

Whether you have a physical piggy bank where you store cash or a bank account or credit line, you appreciate the advantage of having a ‘reserve’ that you can draw on when you need. It doesn’t always have to be

Training slow

Taichi trains slow and most people think it is just for old folks and for health. While this may be true for some, training just for health is certainly not the goal for all practitioners. When I went to learn

Happy birthday Canada!

LHBF martialgym is very Canadian if you think about it: Multicultural – our gymnastics portion comes from Japanese men’s rhythmic gymnastics and liuhebafa comes from China. Here in Canada, without any social pressure or cultural baggage, I was able to

Sifu versus coach

Do they mean the same thing? Close but not exactly. Sifu is a Chinese term and concept and can be written in two ways 師父 or 師傅 – the first meaning ‘teacher father’ and the second ‘master’ or ‘expert’. As