Photo & Film

FILMS
(demonstrated by Geert Van Loo and students).



Videos about tai chi chuan can be found on our YouTube account

Men's Fixed Step Pushing Hands
(British Open Tai Chi Championships, 2007)
video 1
video 2
video 3
video 4

Men's Moving Step Pushing Hands
(British Open Tai Chi Championships, 2007)
video 1
video 2

PHOTOS

OUR COMPETITION TEAM IN ACTION AT THE 19th BRITISH OPEN TAI CHI CHAMPIONSHIPS - OXFORD, APRIL 1st 2007
(photos by Muze)

SEMINAR DAN DOCHERTY - OSTEND,
DECEMBER 10th 2005
(photo courtesy of Pascal Rys & Kenny Dauwe)

SOME POSITIONS FROM
THE TRADITIONAL LONG FORM
(demonstrated by Geert Van Loo)

1. Grasping the Bird’s Tail
2. Single Whip
3. Needle at Sea Bottom
4. Fan Through the Back
5. Stepping Back to Strike the Tiger
6. Kicking with the Right Heel
7. Brush Knee, Twist Step
8. Fair Lady Works at the Shuttle
9. Snake Creeps Down
10. Single Hand Sweep Lotus Leg

PRACTICAL FIGHTING APPLICATIONS

WEAPONS

1. Sabre Technique 'Flying Oblique' (Dan Docherty)
2. Sword Technique 'Peasant Digging with a Hoe'
(Dan Docherty)
3. Spear Technique 'Golden Dragon Swinging its Tail'
(Dan Docherty)
4. Sabre Technique 'Chop the Tiger' (Geert Van Loo)
5. Sword Technique
'Spin Around and Rein in the Horse' (Geert Van Loo)
6. Spear Technique 'Lying Tiger and Diving Dragon'
(Geert Van Loo)

NEI KUNG

1. Geert Van Loo demonstrates Nei Kung
(Ostend, 1992)
2. Dan Docherty demonstrates Nei Kung
(Hong Kong, 1976)

TUI SHOU (pushing hands)


1. Anne Peere (right)
2. Timothy Verhaeghe (right)

SOME OLDIES
(selected by Geert Van Loo)


1. My first steps into the world of martial arts. (1982)
2. Practising Yang style Tai Chi Chuan as a teenager. (age 13-18)
3. Started studying Southern Chinese styles as well at the age of 14.
Training in Pak Mei (White Eyebrow style) Kung-Fu here. (1985)
4. Influenced by Bruce Lee??? (1985)
5. Demonstrating Pak Mei fighting applications with Dan Vercammen. (1985)
6. Tui shou practice with Dan Vercammen. (1987)
7. Spreading my wings for
"De Stoeten Ostendenoare", a long defunct local magazine. (age 17)
8. A nicely executed side kick at the age of 18.
9. Demonstrating Yang style Tai Chi Chuan in 1988. (with cartoonist Kamagurka as a spectator!)
10. Punching my brother Tom. (1989)
11. My first Wudang style Tai Chi Chuan students. (1990)
12. Dan Docherty's first time visit to Belgium. Teaching Björn here, one of my first students. (1990)
13. Defeated ;-) by my ex-girlfriend Els on a hot summerday in 1991.
14. Attending an international Tai Chi Chuan competition in Amsterdam with my students in 1993. (including webmaster Wolf, standing, 4th from left)
15. Trying out my "Single Whip" on Tom. (1994)
16. Posing with Dan Inosanto at his school in Los Angeles. (1995)
17. The "1st European Chinese Martial Arts Cup" (Oxford, 1995). My students took medals in pushing hands : bronze (men, -60kg) for Geert Fonteyne (standing, 3rd from right), silver (men, -60kg) for Christophe Calmeyn (kneeling next to me), silver (men, -65kg) for Brendan Rousseau (standing, 2nd from right), silver (women, -60kg) for Anne Peere (standing, 1st from left) and missing on the photo Michèle Palmers (bronze, women -65kg). Won gold myself in the forms division.
18. My students fought many hard style (Kenpo, Karate, Taekwondo...) opponents at the "1996 Flemish All Style Championships" in Bruges. Results : silver (men -60kg) for Wim Provoost (kneeling, left), gold (men -55kg) for Ben Teugels (kneeling, right), bronze (men -65kg) for Miguel Tyteca (standing, 2nd from left) and gold (men -65kg) for Jerry Roels (standing, 3rd from left).
19. As an instructor at the "2nd European Taijiquan and Qigong Congress/Forum" in Hungary (sitting, 1st row, 2nd from right). (1997)