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Authentic Kung Fu moves to new location Authentic Kung Fu has moved to a new location in central Fort Worth, just east of downtown. Come visit the new space at 2707 Race Street, Suite 105. Parking is behind the building (turn on Blandin Street, next to Fuzzy's Taco). Enter through either the front or back door. Check out Google maps for directions. Mantis Quarterly launches e-commerce site, Mantis Boxing Conference DVDs available The North American Mantis Boxing Conference DVD is ready for distribution and is featured on Mantis Quarterly's new e-commerce site. Click here to view a video preview of the conference DVD. Along with the conference four-DVD set, a selection of both new and rare books on Mantis Boxing are offered. The rare books are limited in number and once sold may not be available for some time. If you are a collector of rare books or a practitioner of Tanglang who is interested in vintage references on the art, be sure to visit the site. New items will be added, so check back often. Volume 4, Issue 3 of Mantis Quarterly available now, Issue 4 coming soon First North American all Mantis meeting held April 23, 2005 On April 23, 2005 Mantis practitioners from the United States and Canada met together for the First North American Mantis Boxing Conference. The conference, held in conjunction with John Irvin’s Great Lakes Kung-Fu Championships, marks the first time in the West that practitioners from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland Chinese lineages of Tanglang Quan have gathered for seminars, the exchange of techniques and an instructor’s colloquium. Students and instructors exhibited examples of their lines’ approaches to performing sets, and miniseminars were presented by Shifu Tony Puyot, an instructor of James Shyun’s Eight Step Mantis Boxing and Chiu Chi Man’s Hong Kong Seven Star Praying Mantis; Shifu John Scolaro, the Head Instructor in the United States for Master Shi Zheng Zhong’s Pong Lai Mantis Boxing; John Wicker, an instructor in Jon Funk’s Seven Star Mantis association; Master Hu Xilin Laoshi, a disciple of Master Ma Han Qing in both Taiji Meihua and Liuhe Tanglang Quan; Mike Biggie, a long-time practitioner of the Wong Hon-Fun lineage of Mantis; Jake Burroughs Laoshi, an American disciple of Master Hu Xilin; and Sifu Steve Cottrell, a practitioner of the Wong Hon-Fun lineage of Mantis. After the seminars, the instructors and senior students gathered for an instructor’s colloquium to discuss the traditional fighting rules for Mantis Boxing. For more information, visit www.mantisquarterly.com. Authentic Kung Fu, Inc. 817.244.2347 2707 Race Street, Suite 105 Fort Worth, Texas 76111 Send us Email