Grandmaster Doc-Fai Wong invited by Sifu Phyllis Calph of the Chinatown Tai Chi Center
to teach tai chi two person hand form and the 8 and 16 steps tai chi forms
on September 23 - 25, 2005.

photos provided by David R. Volker & Ben Zvan

Grandmaster Doc-Fai Wong arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota, September 16, 2004 to conduct some seminars over
the weekend at Chinatown Tai Chi Center with Sifu Phyllis Calph. Friday evening September 17, Grandmaster Wong
taught a class on push hands techniques for 2 hours. September 18, Saturday morning the Tai Chi forms seminar was
geared for the beginning students of 50 people. Saturday afternoon was an Exhibition open to the public and attended by
over 100 guests. They saw demonstrations of the tai chi straight sword, broadsword, staff, and the fighting fan.
Grandmaster demonstrated the Chasing the Wind Fan Form and Buddha Palm. Simu McRitchie demonstrated a
Lo Han Fuk Foo form. The local Plum Blossom Kung Fu Schools showed some women’s self-defense techniques and
performed a two-person staff fighting form. In the evening, a banquet enjoyed by over 50 students and friends in a
Chinese restaurant with Grandmaster Wong. September 19, Sunday afternoon Grandmaster taught the Plum Blossom
Fan Form seminar. The last seminar was a lecture by Grandmaster about the differences between and the history
of the weapons used in tai chi. Monday September 20, Sifu Phyllis Calph took Grandmaster Wong to the largest
shopping mall in the U.S.A., the Mall of America before his departure back home.