, Manchester Bagua Meet, Dave Bolton, Wilbraham St.Ninian's United Reformed Church Egerton Road South Chorlton-cum-Hardy Manchester M21 0XJ, 10 Nov 2012
A friendly and informal meet of Bagua practitioners. Bagua is an internal martial art similar to Tai Chi. New students are always welcome. Students are free to learn at their own pace and concentrate on whichever aspects of the syllabus interest them the most. (although people especially interested in the Internal Martial arts for health should be aware that there will be an emphasis on hands on training and that all classes will contain an element of conditioning with physically challenging exercises that many would describe as "external") The Manchester Yizong Bagua school has been situated in Chorlton since William "Aarvo" Tucker, senior Disciple of Luo De Xiu, returned from Taiwan and began teaching in England in 1997. Aarvo is now teaching in Edmonton Canada and the class is taught by his senior student Dave Bolton. Dave has over 20 years martial arts experience having trained in and taught kickboxing and Chinese external martial arts for sixteen years before meeting Aarvo tucker and beginning Bagua in 2001. He earned 3rd degree black belt in kickboxing and 2nd degree black sash under NWCKB and 2nd degree black sash under the BCKA and competed nationally and internationally between 1993 and 2005 representing NWCKB and Great Britain with the WKA squad in 1999 and 2000. Since retiring from kickboxing and competing Dave has concentrated on his Bagua and Xing yi practice under Aarvo Tucker and Luo de Xiu and has run the Manchester club with the help of Derrick May (another senior student of Bill Tucker) since 2007.
