News May 2008

British grappler Kathy Gifford crossed the Atlantic and won two Gold medals at the 2008 Naga World Championships in Newark, New Jersey. Kathy trains at the London Shootfighers MMA club. Previously Kathy had taken up Qi Gong practice at The Real Taoism studio to help deal with severe knee problems in early 2007.

In a quite amazing about turn, Kathy has turned limitation into success.

The Independant newspaper Friday 25th may 2008 runs an article about the realities of Peak Oil and the world economic downturn. What parallels can be drawn ? ......

Is the world about to be running on empty?

Anyone who has researched the "Peak Oil' phenomenon will know that the scenario we are all in right now was predicted way back in the 1956 by the oil expert M.King Hubbard. At that time he predicted the decline in US oil production which was immediately ridiculed by that special type of expert who in childlike fashion exclaims,  'No its Not  ". Furthermore, Hubbard predicted a global decline in the 1970's and his prediction was only postponed due to the 1970"s  Opec price wars that slowed world production at that time.

I have had the privilige to spend 9 days in the company of Hun Yuan Master Ma Bao Guo and Hun Yuan Chen Style master Wang Zhang Hai. Both men live in the city of Zhengzhou in Henan province China....