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Jan Lucanus, 3X Tai Chi World Champion, coaching Tai Chi as a human performance tool.

03/27/2026

Congratulations for getting a new stripe on his BJJ belt. Thanks for all the quality training. 🙏🥋💪☯️❤️

03/20/2026

I’ve been meaning to post this photo since summer. I’m more calm around Sifu David Ross and the family he built at . Sifu Ross was the very first sponsor for back when I was still in film school at NYU, providing our training facilities since my older martial brother and fight choreographer was Sifu Ross’ student. Eventually Sifu Ross and I became friends, and I’ve been honored to call his schools home, especially during the times when the dojo represented more stability than my home life. When J wasn’t making JFH scenes, I was focused on Tai Chi training, or weapons disarming, or Sigong Chan Tai San’s Lama Kung Fu tapered staff form. Sifu Ross encouraged all of it Being entrusted with a space to train and create is one of the greatest gifts anyone can receive.

Sifu Ross even helped me evolve my perspective of my own martial history fighting on Li Ti Liang’s NY International San Shou Team. That was a challenging (sometimes dreadful) chapter of my late teens, getting paid to fight pros for the first time ever, being marketed as a fighter with over 43 matches when I had only 3 prior, and more. Sifu Ross is a historian, and receiving his perspective helped me balance my own and allowed me to give myself more grace.

I write this on the eve of returning to NYC to host a screening at this school that is a home for me, bringing back the project that brought me there, . This photo collects some great humans I’ve met through Sifu Ross, including who has helped maintain the school for 16 years, who has spent significant time on the mats playing Push Hands with me, and , who designed the key moments new era of choreography.

I’m so blessed to watch this martial family grow and share important training with the world.

03/09/2026

Comics + stunt gear + impromptu Tai Chi Alignment Therapy! Let me explain: called me in the middle of stunt training yesterday and offered to give me some tactical vests as props for our next shoot. So of course I had to run to first to pick up the second issue of Batman Knightfight featuring Dan’s creation of the Klingon Bat-leth on the cover (I gave him issue 1 in November).

Then Dan showed my some new Bat’leth prototypes that came in before they hit the consumer market, plus some of his new paintings. Dan loved our new action short and the subtle VFX work that I made on .ai. I suggested that there may be a valuable partnership to explore between him .creators, given that his paintings are worlds and his work is beloved in the sci-fi world (so if anyone from Higgs reads this, connect with Dan off IG).

Dan had some stiffness in his knee as well, but we got rid of that in a few minutes with the .jin.wellness method, so he didn’t need the knee brace after. Thanks for assisting with zero notice.

Awesome day.

I’ll post about how Dan’s work in VFX has provided me with pivotal instructions for meditation since childhood soon. I know has been waiting for that one.

❤️☯️🪐

03/06/2026

Sharing Tai Chi Alignment Therapy with along with my treatment partner . Gratitude to and for bringing us together. Respect to .jin.wellness for the masterful training in this modality. It’s a dream come true to use martial arts for healing. ☯️💪🙏❤️

02/23/2026

Honored to watch and square off in their first freestyle Push Hands balance game yesterday. Both are already well attuned to gentle strength, so the grappling came with a lot of joy and laughter. We got some Qigong and Nei Kung in too. ☯️💪❤️

01/26/2026

Keep your HANDS UP when fighting! More specifically, use the sensitivity and balance skills of Tai Chi Push Hands as a foundation to lay other practical ideas on, like protecting your face. This concept is incredibly valuable for competition in Push Hands and all martial experiences I’ve participated in. HOWEVER, the rule set of a given martial sport you may play in does matter, so you don’t need to go overboard with this concept. For example, in my first Tai Chi World Cup competition, I reverted to my San Shou fight training when I felt like I was losing against Tuishou Chen and kept my guard up at the expense of having my hands ready to grapple. That’s overindexing on my note in this video. As long as your hands stay in the martially viable zone (never past your hip line or compromising your rotator cuff, always aware of the distance from your face) you’ll feel more confident on your game. ☯️💪

01/01/2026

Honored to bring more Tai Chi Structural Alignment Therapy to my buddy ’s Narnia-themed holiday party. is a great partner in healing modality. I don’t really go to parties without a specific intention, so it felt great to treat the good humans Ravé surrounds himself with. Shoutout and everyone that we treated. We missed a bunch of folks since the waitlist was long, so you’re welcome to schedule time when you’re here in LA.

Deep gratitude to master Ben Sanchez for bringing us into his lineage of this .jin.wellness practice. ☯️

Also, I owe some better camerawork on his amazing piano performance. I talk a big game about my Tai Chi camera system and this clip I shot can be way better. 😂🎥

12/28/2025

This is what thinks of me 🤣☯️ aka What AI Thinks Taiji Guys want for Christmas 🎄

12/25/2025

Free Christmas Meditation Workout 🎄☯️

Slow down. Breathe. Move with intention.

Join me for a free Tai Chi + meditation workout
Tomorrow | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PST)

✨ Join remotely via the link below
https://meet.google.com/cdm-kxdm-epp

✨ Or watch live at https://tiktok.com/

Give yourself the gift of presence, balance, and calm this Christmas.

12/15/2025

I’m always grateful to the Chen family and how they accepted my father and I with open arms coming from a different style of Tai Chi. When my Coach Josh Waitzkin came and challenged my Wu style Tai Chi school and proceeded to throw my father and my Tai Chi uncle Bob on the concrete, I was away from class making a movie. When I got the call after the sparring, I vowed to find Josh and beat him at the next tournament.

That didn’t happen.

But my father and I gave Josh and assistant coach Dan Caulfield new movement patterns in the ring due to the mix of my time competing against pro San Shou fighters mixed with our Wu style pummeling. Josh invited us into his martial home, Grandmaster William C. C. Chen’s Tai Chi Chuan school (then on 23rd street in Manhattan).

My father and I came into the school like respectful challengers, wearing our Wu style shirts with calligraphy from our Sigong (our teacher’s father) ready to fight. I had grown up hearing stories about the Chen school, how they had the best Tai Chi fighters. The stories always felt like the evil Empire in Star Wars. My father and I waited in the lobby where we met Grandmaster Chen’s wife Priscilla for the first time. She called Josh to vouch for us, and we were let into their beautiful space.

There, we trained harder than ever in the most focused and scientific space we had ever encountered in martial arts, guided by Josh, but led gently by Grandmaster Chen and his joyful method of cultivating innovation. There we met one of my dearest friends, , and the family’s secret weapon, Uncle Howard.

My father and I were the first “outsiders” allowed to train in the school, but eventually became formal students of Grandmaster Chen to better understand Josh’s strategies for the team, which leaned heavily on their style’s “inverted breathwork” body mechanics.

It’s a gift to share space with the Chen family, and seeing them this Thanksgiving with my brother was a surprise. I always remember to text on Mother’s and Father’s Day.

Salutations to all those that know how to allow new ideas into their everyday lives expanding hearts. ❤️☯️

12/12/2025

Training with my Big Bro Josh Waitzkin revolutionized my entire life. One of the key pattern recognition exercises that helps me across disciplines and industries is the Forummula of 3’s he gave me. I immediately realized O could adapt it to any technique, idea, system, relationship, etc. It’s also an infinite game since the depth of any practice or technique has no true end.

Wishing Josh the best birthday yet. I’m eternally grateful for the fire of training we went through together and for introducing to BJJ through . I recommend anyone serious about mental or physical training look into his work.

11/23/2025

Found some old medals and one of my Tai Chi World Cups at my mom’s. All of these were won competing alongside my father and brilliant teammates on the US Tai Chi Team. ☯️💪🏆

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