written on a happy mac
last update May 9, 2013
Welcome to the website of the wushu centre and tgl books. I (Andrea Falk) play traditional bagua, xingyi, and Chen taiji, but am also an unrepentant classic wushu fan. I translate bagua and xingyi books from the Chinese, and, to keep the retro wushu side of my character happy, brought back Anthony Chan's classic Beijing Wushu Team Training Video Series. My formal education is in physical education, Chinese language history and philosphy, and wushu, so I have naturally put educational material online – a wushu dictionary, downloads of my wushu dictionary and movement name lists, upcoming events in Canada, photographs of athletes and masters in China (most now put into Flickr), links to Chinese martial arts sites around the world, and a list of available translated books on Chinese martial arts. I also have written some books on performance wushu, Coaching Wushu, Coaching Wushu Volume Two, and coming as soon as I find the original, Coaching Wushu Volume Three. NEW! 2012 PDF edition of the Comprehensive Chinese to English Dictionary of China's Martial Arts, now NEW! also available as a print-to-order soft cover book.
The smaller online dictionary is at thewushucentre.com, and most photos are at Flickr. Of course, zen lapin is still traveling and meeting people, sometimes remembering to post at Flickr and Facebook.
The shopping cart payments for the books are through Paypal, but you do not need an account, and you can use credit cards. If the shipping comes up as too expensive in the shopping cart, I will refund the excess after I have the exact amount when I mail the package. Andrea Falk
Quebec, QC