Ren Gang at Double Dragon Camp www.MastersFromChina.com


www.susanamatthews.com Shanghai China internal martial arts master Ren Gang discusses and demonstrates selected key principles of taijiquan as he learned them as a student of Grandmaster Dong Bin, Yang style taijiquan. This clip is an excerpt from a 31-min. DVD of lessons videotaped during the 2009 Double Dragon Alliance Shanghai Training Camp. Seven high-level teachers engaged with foreign learners in this 9-day camp filled with taijiquan training, cultural travel, banquets and shopping trips. A special focus on Ren’s energy is found in Vol 1, which is part of a 3-DVD package. In it, three master practitioner/teachers of Chinese internal martial arts: Master Ren Gang, Master Liu Hong Cai, and Master Wang Ming Bo each present approaches to cultivating and using energy that are truly unique and valuable for learners seeking their own path of understanding. The 3-DVD set also includes Master Shou Guan Shun, doing power stretching and push hands, and Master Liu Ji Fa doing three simple exercises from the Wu Style system. See www.MastersFromChina.com for this DVD and others like it. See www.DoubleDragonAlliance.com for next training camp in Shanghai China. PT RIchard produced the videotaped and edited and authored the DVD. He’s at richardediting.com.

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Things to Consider When Purchasing a Camp Stove

Things to Consider When Purchasing a Camp Stove

Things to consider when purchasing a camp stove.

  1. Which camp stove is the most environmental friendly camp stove for your trip?
  2. Where are you planning to camp?
  3. How many people are you cooking for?
  4. How are going to get to the camp site?

The most environmentally friendly camp stove is the propane camp stove that can be hooked up to a refillable propane tank. This option is mainly only available when camping at a campsite. Most of the camp stoves that use a 16oz. propane bottle can be hooked up to the refillable propane tanks with the aid of adapters and / or stands.

There several camp stoves are able that burn liquefied gas fuels such as butane, propane, isobutane, or blends of these fuels. These fuels burn clean and work well at above freezing temperatures. When the temperature nears the boiling point of the fuel used it ability to vaporize minimizes and it becomes ineffective.

  • Propane boiling point: -43° F (-40°C),
  • Butane boiling point: 31° F (0.5°C),
  • Isobutane boiling point: 11° F (-12°C).

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The Green Iguana Surf Camp

Green Iguana Surf Camp has been in the business for a long time now, teaching guests not just to ride the waves, but also to enjoy the entire surfing experience – all the while making sure that you know how to keep yourself safe in the Costa Rican waters.

Found in the heart of Playa Dominical, where waves are the most constant in the whole of Costa Rica, Green Iguana Surf Camp offers a one of a kind adventure to young and old alike; to the surfing enthusiast and your average vacation junkie; to the thrill seeker and the exhausted traveler.

Picture-perfect examples of tropical beaches, Playa Dominical and its surrounding shorelines and reefs, like Playa Guapil, Playa Dominicalito, Playa Hermosa, and Playa Ventanas, are full of ideal surfing sites.

With their easy-to-ride breakers to more difficult kinds of waves, there are just no flat surfs in the places mentioned above, making them good locations for wannabes to become skilled at surfing. Intermediate and advanced surfers, on the other hand, can further hone their skills in beautiful pointbreaks known as “Papas Point” to Playa Dominical’s natives or “The Point” to many.

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