TaijiQuan (Tai Chi Chuan)
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Chinese internal martial art
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About TaijiQuan
| Founder: |  Zhang Sanfeng |
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| Meaning: | Supreme Ultimate Fist |
| Doctrine: | One of the three internal Chinese Arts. It employs slow, exaggerated movements to teach the movement of Qi. Largely employed for health without its martial applications. Also known as Tai Chi Chuan. |
| Synopsis: |
Usually associated with slow-motion movements, T'ai Chi is often also associated with the elderly and those with little to no fighting interest. The style is very useful to become more aware of the attunement of the body and experienced practitioners will be able to feel the movement of individual bones, muscles and ligaments in the body during exercise, none of which must be under any kind of tension, mind you. However the style also harbors a darker side, one with very useful martial application as most of the slow-motion movements are practiced this way it propagates control, balance and muscle tension, furthermore most of the movements are either evasions or blocks, while the attacks are targeted at pressure points within the body. Apart from this attunement of the body and its movements and the martial applications, it is also said that it promotes cultivation of the 'chi' in the dan tien (a point 2 inches below the navel, basically the chi-battery), which will help is in achieving our daily goals. (Synopsis courtesy of Rathryn Ramos) |
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Comment by April on November 11, 2009 at 7:11pm - I do Taekwondo, but I found Tai Chi when I was suffering from serious inflammation. It was really painful to do TKD, but I learned quickly that I felt fantastic after doing Tai Chi.
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Comment by James M. Gray on May 17, 2009 at 3:24pm -
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Tai-Chi been doing it for years can bring pulse rate from 57 down to 27 enjoy work out and it is good for you.
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Comment by Bart Scovill on September 24, 2008 at 3:23pm - Yeah, I guess that article was right up your alley.
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Comment by Berserk on September 24, 2008 at 3:19pm -
Hey SL, thanks for starting this group. I'm very much interested in Tai Chi and have been wanting to start learning it since a while.
I'll have a chat with my kickboxing instructor (He's a Wushu guy with lots of Tai Chi experience too) and fit Tai Chi in my schedule as well.
That article on WP.com was very inspiring btw.
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