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Foreword In compiling this overview, I am reminded of the translator's note to Douglas Wiles' excellent T'ai Chi Touchstones: Yang Family Secret Transmissions. Two phrases come to mind. First, abandon all hope ye who search for certainty and second, the bitterness and slant of scholarly debate in this area should alert us that this is yet another battlefield for partisan political axe ...

CHINESE INTERNAL MARTIAL ARTS The Chinese internal martial arts (also known as the neijia ), the best known of which are the three sisters of Taijiquan (T'ai Chi Ch'uan), Xingyiquan (Hsing-I Ch'uan), and Baguazhang (Pa Kua Chang), are martial arts which offer fascinating insights into body mechanics. Select Resources and Instruction for Internal Martial Arts: Here you will find links and ...

This page contains commented links and other sources on Chen style taijiquan.

A Website with information about the philosophy and principles of Tai Chi with video streaming ...

Rem's Tai Chi Page.

THE CHEN STYLE OF TAI CHI There are two principal traditions of Tai Chi in the Chen Family. In both cases the traditions were a combination of the Tai Chi that was taught to the Chen Family by Chiang Fa with the traditional Chen Family Cannon Pounding (Pao Chui) art which had derived from the Shaolin Temple tradition. One school of Tai Chi, the so-called Old Frame of Chen Tai Chi developed from ...

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A Simple Analogy Explaining Peng Paths A string of beads can resist longitudinal force (force along the string) in two ways. Let's have the string of beads vertical, so as to demonstrate how they can resist gravity... Without either method, the string of beads will fall over once let go at the top. First, the external method: draw the string that holds the beads together taught against the ...

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