Keefe's Martial Arts

08/25/2026

Tai Chi is good for you!

Analysis finds ‘high certainty evidence’ of their effectiveness for the 1.7bn people worldwide with musculoskeletal conditions

08/22/2026

1. My student found an opponent in Florida!

2. Student gifts. A samurai figurine from Tokyo Japan and a magnet from the Great Wall in China - students summer trips. Thank you!

08/01/2026

It was an truly an honor to be part of the 50th Anniversary of my Tai Chi teacher Bow Sim Mark's school in Boston. The reasons are vast and too much to explain in a post. Research her (pun intended). The Chinese Wushu Research Institute, Bow Sim Mark.
Photos courtesy of Lee-David Tran.
Special appreciation to Jean Luktish, Rick Wong, Chris Yen, and Cecilia Wong for their incredible effort to make the anniversary a success.

08/01/2026

RIF. (Reading Is Fundamental.)
Reading books from my martial arts collection.

07/29/2026

For fifty years, the Chinese Wushu Research Institute (CWRI) has pr...

07/01/2026

MOVIE AT THE BRATTLE THEATER - CAMBRIDGE
FRIDAY, JULY 10 6PM
Live martial arts performances before the show!
Performed by students of Bow Sim Mark

https://brattlefilm.org/film-series/bow-sim-mark-50th-anniversary-screenings/

07/01/2026

Pizza after class for this group! 🍕

06/29/2026

CLOSED SATURDAY.
Have a great holiday weekend! Happy 4th! 🎆

06/27/2026

Martial Arts Seminar at Lake Quannapowitt.
Around 2 dozen students from 2 schools got together at Lake Quannapowitt. Sifu John Keefe and Sifu Rick Wong taking turns teaching taichi aspects, drills and more.

06/26/2026

Bow Sim Mark 50th Anniversary Screenings
Friday, July 10 – Saturday, July 11
BRATTLE THEATER-CAMBRIDGE

Did you know that one of the first tai chi schools in the United States was founded right here in Boston? Bow-sim Mark moved here from Hong Kong along with her family and founded the now legendary Chinese Wushu Research Institute in 1976.

Sifu Mark is credited with helping to popularize the term Wushu (literally ‘martial arts’) here in the United States and she was among the first to teach standardized Wushu to American audiences.

One of her first students was her son, action star Donnie Yen who cut his teeth working with the amazing action choreographer and director Yuen Woo-ping in the ‘80s and ‘90s and has gone on to international stardom in films like Rogue One and JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4.

With Special Live Martial Arts Performance! 35mm Screening • Double feature with JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4