Luo Dexiu or Lo Te-Hsiu is a Taiwanese martial artist who specializes in the internal Chinese styles

Neijia

Nèijiā is a term in Chinese martial arts, grouping those styles that practice nèijìng , usually translated as internal martial arts, occupied with spiritual, mental or qi-related aspects, as opposed to an "external" approach focused on physiological aspects...

 of Xingyiquan

Xingyiquan

Xingyiquan is one of the major "internal" or Wudang styles of Chinese martial arts. The word translates approximately to "Form/Intention Boxing", or "Shape/Will Boxing", and is characterized by aggressive, seemingly linear movements and explosive power...

, Baguazhang

Baguazhang

Bāguàzhǎng is one of the three main Chinese martial arts of the Wudang school, the other two being Taijiquan and Xingyiquan. It is more broadly grouped as an internal practice...

, and Taijiquan.

He was born in 1956 (25th day, 11th month of the lunar calendar

Lunar calendar

A lunar calendar is a calendar that is based on cycles of the lunar phase. A common purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar or Hijri calendar. A feature of the Islamic calendar is that a year is always 12 months, so the months are not linked with the seasons and drift each solar year by 11 to...

, which he follows for his birthdate) in Taipei

Taipei

Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...

, Taiwan

Taiwan Province

Taiwan Province is one of the two administrative divisions referred to as provinces and is controlled by the Republic of China . The province covers approximately 73% of the territory controlled by the Republic of China...

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Luo Dexiu entered the Tang Shou Tao

Tang Shou Tao

Tang Shou Tao is a system of Chinese internal martial arts training founded in the 1950s and 1960s by Hung I-Hsiang , a well-known Taiwanese internal martial artist...

 (唐手道) school of Hong Yixiang (洪懿祥) in 1971, where he began his study of the Internal Martial Arts, devoting himself in the beginning to the use of these arts for fighting, with particular emphasis on Xingyiquan. He became one of Hong Yixiang's best fighters.

He later became deeply interested in Baguazhang, which was at the core of the skills taught by Hong Yixiang, having been passed directly from Zhang Junfeng (張俊峰), who trained under Gao Yisheng

Gao Yisheng

Gao Yisheng was the creator of the Gao style of the Chinese Internal Martial Art of Baguazhang. His life bridged the second generation and third generation of Bagua practitioners into the 20th century. He was one of the few third generation Bagua practitioners to live beyond the 1940s...

 (高義盛), a master in the Cheng Tinghua

Cheng Tinghua

Cheng Tinghua was a renowned master of Chinese Neijia martial art Bagua Zhang.-Biography:Born in the Cheng family village, Shen County, Hebei , he was the third of four brothers....

 (程廷華) branch of Baguazhang. Zhang Junfeng had brought the Gao style of Baguazhang

Gao Style Baguazhang

Gao Style Baguazhang is the style of Baguazhang descended from Gao Yisheng , a student of Cheng Tinghua, who founded one of the two main branches of Baguazhang. Gao is alternatively said to have originally studied with Song Changrong or Yin Fu , later studying with one of Cheng's students,...

 to Taiwan. This lineage and school is called Yizong. Luo Dexiu studied Gao style Baguazhang with Hong Yixiang, and with many of Zhang's other students as well, including Hong Yixiang's brothers Hong Yiwen (洪懿文) and Hong Yimian (洪懿棉). He later continued his intensive studies of Baguazhang with Liu Qian, an early student of Sun Xikun

Cheng Style Baguazhang

Cheng Style Baguazhang is the style of Baguazhang descended from Cheng Tinghua, the fourth disciple of Baguazhang's founder, Dong Haichuan ....

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Luo Dexiu currently teaches Gao style Baguazhang and Hebei

Hebei

' is a province of the People's Republic of China in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province, a Han Dynasty province that included what is now southern Hebei...

 Xingyiquan, carrying on the Yizong tradition through his classes in Taipei, Taiwan, and holds seminar tours annually throughout Europe, America, and the Middle East.

External links

• Master Luo's own website (in Chinese, English and French)
• Videos with Master Luo: Clever hands Gao Style Baguazhang
• Area seminar schedules: Albany, CA, USA London, England
• Boston bagua Seminar Blog
• Master Luo performing Xinyiquan (YouTube)
• Master Luo performing Baguazhang (YouTube)
• Yi Zong Bagua Men
• Boulder, Colorado Affiliate Yi Zong School
• Zhen Wu Men U.K. Affiliate Yi Zong School
• Zong Wu Men, George Wood's school
• Yizong Kung Fu Long De Guan, Oliver Smith's school, Bristol and Bath, England
• http://www.shenwu.com/Site of Tim Cartmell
  Tim Cartmell
  Tim Cartmell is a martial artist best known as an author and translator of martial arts books. Tim is an Eighth Degree Black Belt in Kung-Fu San Soo. Tim is a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu...
  
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• Yizongbagua Nîmes, France
• http://www.transformativemartialarts.com, Ed Hines, France
• http://www.gravityandgrace.net/, William Tucker, Edmonton Canada
• http://www.palmchange.com/index.php/component/content/article/3-newsflash/76-bagua-baguazhang-xingyi-ramsgate-kent-kung-fu-lessons, Nick Cumber, Kent U.K.