Training with Feng Zhiqiang and Zhang Xue-Xin: the Mark Becker Podcast
The 80th edition of my Internal Fighting Arts podcast features an interview with longtime Chen Taiji student and instructor Mark Becker.
Mark lives in Denver, Colorado. He has studied with great instructors such as Liang Baiping, Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang, and Master Zhang Xue-Xin (who was a student of Grandmaster Feng). Mark became Master Zhang's disciple in 2019.
You can listen to the podcast here or download the episode. This is the audio version of the podcast. I also recorded it on video - check out the interview on YouTube.
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Internal Fighting Arts Podcast on Lists of Top Podcasts
My podcast --Ā Internal Fighting ArtsĀ -- has made a couple of lists on Feedspot that I consider quite an honor.
Earlier this year,Ā Internal Fighting ArtsĀ was listed as the #1 Tai Chi podcast.Ā
Now, Feedspot has listed it as number 30 on the list of Top 70 Martial Arts podcasts, which is a much more crowded field and includes all martial arts, including MMA.
I was also listed as #8 on the list of Qigong podcasts.Ā
I launched my podcast in 2014. My goal each time is to have a good teacher as a guest -- someone with ties to a top master. Occasionally, I go off-topic if the guest appeals to me like the lastest one -- Aaron Leisinger, who is a martial artist and a police officer. He had information I found very interesting about martial arts and the job of keeping the peace. You can browse through the list of podcasts and guests by following this link. You can also find the podcast on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Winners Announced for Digital Copies of "Enter the Dragon"
A few weeks ago, Warner Bros. contacted me as they prepared to release the new 4K version of "Enter the Dragon." They asked if I wanted to do a giveaway on my podcast of 10 digital codes. Of course, I enthusiastically said "Yes!"
So in the recent edition of the Internal Fighting Arts podcast I asked listeners to come to this blog and leave comments on what Bruce Lee and "Enter the Dragon" meant to their study of martial arts.
As it turned out, hundreds of people have listened to the podcast but only nine people actually left comments here on the blog.
Those nine people who followed the rules will automatically win a digital code for a copy of "Enter the Dragon." Those nine people are:
** Tom Norio Sakaishi
** Liam Machlin
** Eddie Ooms
** Neil White
** Jim Strother
** Mike Sherlock
** Ernesto Pon
** James Helms
** Jovan Lezaravic
Since the people above followed the rules and left messages on the blog post, they will each get a code. So that means I had one left. Several m...
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