april moore skelton

Carl Lindberg almost broke my wrist.

That’s a lie. He didn’t almost break my wrist, not even close. But he could have. That much is true.

Lindberg, widely known in the Athens music community as a jazz musician and member of local groups Grogus, Squat and DubConscious, also is a 15-year practitioner and decade-long teacher of Chinese martial arts, including Qigong and Taijiquan. And though he’s never applied his expertise outside of practice fights, you would be well-advised to not throw a punch at Lindberg, who has logged enough hours in pursuit of mastering the arts of qigong (pronounced chi gong) and taiji (the more Westernized spelling is tai chi).