The Whole Story

In 1982 I set off from my native land, Morocco, on a long journey to the four corners of the Earth, with France my first destination. There I led courses and seminars in over twenty cities.

In 1985 I went to China to study Sports-applied Traditional Chinese Medicine and polish up my performance in Traditional Chinese Arts such as Daoyin Qigong, Wushu Kungfu (Taijiquan, Chaquan, Shaolinquan …), Calligraphy, Feng shui, Yijing (Yi king) …

I am averse to any kind of competition, and my participation in various world championship events acquainted me with what is generally referred to as “top level sports” (!). I achieved my results without stress or over-training.

Thanks to the various teachings I received, I was able to specialize in Preventive Health and develop my own method, combining as it does a strictly scientific approach with the millennia-old practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The purpose is to promote greater balance through Prevention by means of health exercises and other common-sense behavior.

My method is especially well suited to the general public (healthy or sick), Health and Sports professionals. It combines Health exercises, Diet, Massage, moving in Harmony with one's Internal Body Clock and the Environment in order to achieve Flexibility, Balance, Well-being, Vitality and good Self-management.

BACKGROUND

Résumé

Najib Bouchiba
Health Care Expert.
China State certified in Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture-moxibustion, Massage therapy, Reflexology ( foot, hand, face), Auriculotherapy, Scrapology (Guasha), Cupping (Baguang),
Herbal medicine , dietetics,
Daoyin Qigong & Kungfu Wushu Taijiquan (Tai chi chuan) Professor.
International Kungfu Wushu Judge.
Health care instrument developper

Languages spoken and written:
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Moroccan dialect and a little Martinique Island Créole.

Ongoing Activities
Since 1980: - Artistic Advisor to dance, theatre and film companies
Coaching top-level artists and athletes in Stress-management
Since 1988: - Instrumental in the introduction of Chinese Traditional Arts (Kungfu Wushu, Taijiquan, Shaolin …), Daoyin Qigong, Calligraphy … in Morocco and the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe)
1996-2004: – Organizer and sponsor for the first seven Moroccan championships in Artistic Kungfu Wushu (without combat)
2001: the Morocco Kungfu Wushu & Traditional Chinese Arts Union set up .
2002: - Videos on the Arts of Health Preservation: Daoyin Qigong, Taijiquan, Kungfu Wushu, TCM, Calligraphy...

Awards
1992: International Kungfu Wushu Champion, Tianjin (China)
1993: International Kungfu Wushu Champion, Beijing (China)
1993: Participant at the the 2 nd World Kungfu Wushu Championships, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
1994: First place at the Chinese Daoyin Championships, Changde (China)
1995: Fourth Taijiquan World Champion at the 3 rd World Kungfu Wushu Championships, Baltimore (USA)
1995: First Taijiquan World Champion, Beijing (China)
1997: Seventh Taijiquan World Champion, Rome (Italy)
1997: Second Taijizhang World Champion, Hangzhou (China)
1998: Second Taijiquan World Champion (Taiji Sword), Beijing (China)

Other Big Interests
Golf, surfing, Arabic and Chinese calligraphy, Chinese painting

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My Mentors : competence, modesty and class !

Zhang wenguang , aged 92, 9 th Duan, one of the four oldest Grand Masters in China. He performed at the 1936 11 th Olympics in Berlin, Germany. He is one of the greatestt pioneers in the history of modern Wushu, and the topmost name in Chaquan.

Kan guixiang , 8 th Duan, one of the ten Wushu Grand Masters in China. She has created some magnificent Chen- style Taijiquan forms. She and her husband, Men huifeng, jointly developed the Dongyue Taijiquan style.

Men huifeng , Technical Director of the International Wushu Federation; nicknamed “the Wushu Walking Encyclopedia”; 8 th Duan, one of the ten Wushu Grand Masters in China; co-founder of the Dongyue Taijiquan style with his wife Kanguixiang.

Wu bin , 8th Duan; one of the ten Wushu Grand Masters in China. Master of the famous actor Li lianje (Jet li).

Zhang guangde created the Daoyin Yangshen Gong method and is considered a “Walking National Treasure”. He was awarded the prize for Scientific Progress in 1992; 8 th Duan, he is one the ten Wushu Grand Masters in China.

Zhao ping : famous professor in Orthopedics, Traumatology, and Functional Sports Rehabilitation; he combines Chinese and Western medicines; applies Daoyin and Taijiquan as complementary therapy in the treatment of various locomotive malfunctions.

Li xiaoping: a big name in the history of modern Wushu; Chinese champion in the Changquan style (sword, lance, etc.) over more than ten years She belongs to the Lilianje (Jetli) generation, and is currently teaching mainly Taijiquan in Japan !

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CHINESE PORTRAIT

My Alphabet in low and high-key:

Tree: all favorites, esp. the olive, date, coconut and argan-tree
Actor (favorite): several, especially Louis de Funès
Actress (favorite): several, esp. Emmanuelle Béart
Agriculture : all-organics !
Alone on a desert island with just one person: the woman I love
Alone on a desert island with just one favorite object: a scientific dictionary
Animal (land): I love them all, especially the panda
Animal (marine): I love them all, esp. the dolphin
Bamboo: my favorite plant
Bird (favorites): stork, crane
Book (favorite): Laoze's Daodejing (Laotse's Taoteking )
Car: a necessary evil - as means of locomotion, not murder !
Cheerfulness: the spice of life, the zest of life
Circle: the Universe
City (favorite): several, esp. Marrakech
Climate (favorite): tropical
Color (favorite): all, esp. black (even if it's a non-color!)
Day: they're all great, esp. Friday
Dish: all great, esp. couscous with wild fish and organically-grown trimmings!
Dream of my life: heal and teach
Dream (professionally): follow in the footsteps of my mentors Ibn Sina (Avicenna 980-1037) and Hua Tuo (141-207)
Dream for the Planet Earth: no war, no injustice, no famine, no pollution, equality between peoples…… I must be dreaming !
Drink (favorite): bio-grown green or red leaf-tea (never tea-bags !)
Expression (favorite): “with pleasure”
Expression (disliked): “what's more” (in French “qui plus est” … not in English)
Fault (biggest): perfectionism
Film : several favorites, especially The Legend of Bagger Vince
Flowers: I like them all, esp. the lotus and musk-rose
Food - favorites : dates, olives …
Fruit : I like them all, esp. young coconuts
GMOs: Grossly Manipulative & Odious !
Golf: one of my favorite sports
Habitat (natural): the Ocean :)
Hobbies: travel, music
Hunger: one of the greatest injustices on earth
Insect: I like them all, esp. the bee
Joy: family
K for kayak, koala
Letter (favorite): all, especially A
Man (favorite): several, Mandela
Means of locomotion (favorite): bicycle
Memory – the best: several, my first trip to China
Memory – the worst: daily injustice and pollution throughout the world
Month (favorite): all, esp. August
Music: a bond of friendship
Musicians: several favorites, the Davis Sisters
Music for daily enjoyment: all sorts – Afro-Caribbean, Arabic, instrumental solos, western classical (Mozart)
Nature: Conservation
Number: (favorite): all, esp. 8
Océan: favorite natural element :)
Old People: human libraries
Phobias: none
Physician (favorite): Hua Tuo (141-207)
Pollution: caused by life's enemies
Profession that I might have chosen: musician – another of my passions!
Quality ( main): generosity
Racism: intolerance
Reptile: I like them all, especially the tortoise
Season (favorite): summer
Secularism: a precious thing when egalitarian, just and respectful of differences
Singers – male (favorites): several, Louis Armstrong, Pierre Perret
Singers - female (favorites): several, Ella Fitzgerald
Singing: a dream …
Sport: competition-free
Sports (favorite): surfing and golf – apart from Daoyin and Wushu
Square: perhaps the Earth !
Three: stands for the trio human being-earth-sky
UN: utopia ! Might work without the right of veto …
Urgent: peace and ecology
Voyager (favorite): Ibn Battuta (1304-1377)
War is the fruit of intolerance
Woman (favorite): the one I love
Word (favorite): several – unity
Word (hated): several – war
Xenophobia: mental illness
Yin & Yang: harmony
Zoro: my grandfather's favorite actor
Zygoma: my favorite muscle !

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Morocco Kungfu Wushu & Traditional Chinese Arts Union :

MOROCCO


FEDERATION & COURSES
I set up the Union Marocaine de Kungfu Wushu et Arts Chinois Traditionnels in 2001. This is an Independent Association within the extensive national program for Sports Insertion (initiated in 1992) and for the promotion of Chinese Traditional Arts.
Membership includes Associations in the following locations: Tanger, Fès, Meknès, Rabat, Kénitra, Erfoud, Ouazazarte, Casablanca, Oujda, Berkane, Rommani, Salé, Errachidia, Berkane, Rich.

INSTRUCTION
I was in charge of training in the Moroccan dialect and French language. The program of instruction is limited to Artistic Technical forms ( eligible as Olympic Sports forms, Beijing 2008). Combat forms (sanda fighting) are neither taught nor practiced within our Union !

How it was possible to Join the Teaching Course is subject to the following conditions :
•  Adherence to the Union's Rules & Regulations
•  Be of voting age
•  Have a National Lifesaving Certificate
•  Follow at least 5 seasons previous practice with one of my pupils
•  There is no special level of schooling prerequisite for this course of training

PROGRAM OF TRAINING
THEORY:
- Basic theory of Chinese Medicine
- Basic theories of sports anatomy, biology, physiology, psychology.

PRACTICE:
- Wushu Kungfu
* Traditional styles :- Shaolinquan
- Dongyue Taijiquan after Prs. Menhuifeng & Kanguixiang : the 5 principal schools of Taijiquan (Chen,Yang, Sun,Wu,Wu)
- Xhigyiquan , Baguazhang …
- Chaquan after Pr.Zhangwenguang

* International Competition Styles:
All Codified Styles, whether internal or external, ancient or modern:
•  Changquan, Sword, Sabre, Lance, Bare Hands and 3 Duilian (Bare Hands di yi tao, Bare Hands di er tao, Sabre, Baton against Bare Hands)
•  Nanquan: Baton, Sabre and Bare Hands
•  Raijiquan: 24 movements, 32 Sword

- Daoyin Qigong: Daoyinyangshengong after Pr. Zhangguangde
•  Relaxation with “ 5 minutes for Long Life”
•  Yijinjing: Tendons, muscles & joints, traditional form
•  Shujin zhanggu gong: Tendons, muscles & joints, updated form
•  Baduanjin: traditional form for General Health

FEDERATION !!!
None so far … My students are not members of the federation in charge of Wushu. Because according to our past experience this federation is a serious obtacle to any practice or progress.

for further details:
najib206@hotmail.com
najib@najib-bouchiba.com