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It is accurate to say, anyone doing an exercise has made more than a mental note about it; these include simple writings, magazine articles, books, films, videos, and websites. Each includes their understanding, viewpoints, vanity, and intent to record or to teach.  For this subject, too often, the media is intent on a sale rather than a complete record or to hypnotise and control to become a follower.
 
General Encylopedic Introduction: en.Wikipedia, this is a well-intentioned public encylopedia resource assembled by open-public 'committee'. Unfortunately the material tends flow back and forth as if the file was written in 'sand-scratch' depending on the knowledge and intent of the contributor tends to place their own website content and organization ahead with the intent commercial promotion or the intent of 'correct knowledge'. Wikipedia attempts a 'neutral' unbiased public resource.
 
However, their is the zealot, unversed dogmatic 'editor' that wishes his own interpretation and own standards to be adherred to, ie. 'there is no support to call this exercise LiuHe BaFa', based on no knowledge of the subject, the context, and the diversity possible within the subject schema.
 The factual content thus  suffers with the inclusion of unsupported fantasy regarding origins [chen tuan is highly unlikely] or that the best students came through the lineage of the HongKong school under Chen YikYan [unsupported by facts regarding the personal schisms that divided and disoluted the school].
 
An alternative is the chinese language site  http://zh.wikipedia.org/  which only offers the core factual material as just another martial art. To access the chinese site, some ability to identify or read the chinese is useful and a cut and paste of the chinese pictograms is required, not english letters. The complete chinese phrase Liu He Ba Fa Chuan is necessary  六合八法拳 to perform a search; entry of LHBF alone will not or may result in the seperate philosophies of Liu-He and Ba-Fa, one being more 'taoist' and the other being more 'buddhist' is usage. Speaking within the context of martial arts most chinese understand LHBF is boxing; without context identity, most chinese will 'hear' and associate the LHBF as being an idiom of buddhist philosophy.
 
Chinese website on Liu He Ba Fa, caution as some use only PinYin characters.
 
A complete thematic-clustered search can be obtained with:  A9-search and alternate would be Exalead-search for thumbshots. Be sure to input all of the various titles: liuhebafa, liuhe bafa, liuhopafa, liuho pafa, waterstyle-boxing; caution: as 'water' boxing is associated with boxing in water
and the HongKong New Years burning of gift boxes.
 
For visual imagery on Liu_He_Ba_Fa, either the Google or Yahoo are OK.
 
A thematic-clustering visualization search return is available using TouchGraph with the Google
 
Useful also is an images visual search with oskopeOskope is like using Google image search mode with all of the images returned on one view frame and you being given the option of view formate. Select image source: youtube, flickr, amazon, ebay, then search name-entry: liuhe bafa. Next select view-form: [useless] grid, stack, pile, [useful] list, or graph.  The youtube site has most of the video clips for LHBF, the flickr site has only the photos of Yun Yin Sen at SanFrancisco Lake seminar with George Xu.
The ebay and amazon sites do have some books, the amazon site does however return 52 frames of images for the query tai chi, everyone promises 'masterly' information.

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