Tai Chi Chuan

Tai Chi Chuan

A community portal about Tai Chi Chuan with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Tai Chi Chuan, T'ai Chi Ch'üan or Taijiquan, commonly known as Tai Chi, T'ai Chi, or Taiji, is an internal Chinese martial art. There are... [more]

A community portal about Tai Chi Chuan with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Tai Chi Chuan, T'ai Chi Ch'üan or Taijiquan, commonly known as Tai Chi, T'ai Chi, or Taiji, is an internal Chinese martial art. There are different styles of T'ai Chi Ch'üan, although most agree they are all based on the system originally taught by the Chen family to the Yang family starting in 1820. It is often promoted and practiced as a martial arts therapy for the purposes of health and longevity, sometimes even to the point of being taught exclusively as an exercise technique ignoring martial applications entirely. T'ai Chi Ch'üan is considered a soft style martial art, an art applied with deep relaxation or "softness" in the musculature as possible, to distinguish its theory and application from that of the hard martial art styles which use a degree of tension in the muscles.

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Written by johncrewdson on
The great and infamous Master of Duhism, Bob Tzu, never ceases to amaze me with his incredible insights and how they apply to tai chi. Recently Master Tzu shared this profound tid bit. “It’s better to teach not with words, but with action. And the best action for teaching is speaking.” This is the same thing - sort of - that Master Cui says to us as students when it comes to releasing energy, or fali. Master Cui teaches us to feel the energy and allow it to flow, but without really focusing on it. The act of focusing on our own chi (qi) ... Read Full Story
Written by johncrewdson on
I’ve been talking, all right writing, about tai chi for a while now and one of the my more common subjects is that tai chi is broken down into two schools of thought. The one most people in the West seem to be familiar with is health related tai chi, where the movements are taught in a general way and are intended to provide relaxation and a wide variety of well documented health benefits. The second is the martial school of thought, the original intention and use of tai chi chuan (taijiquan). Since I’ve been writing this blog I’ve become friends with a very ... Read Full Story
Written by LosAngelesTaiChi on
Tai Chi Workshop Series in Los Angeles On a regular basis the TC Society in Los Angeles California offers a multi-part workshop covering the fundamental principals of Tai Chi. The Los Angeles Tai Chi Workshop home page can be found at http://tcsociety.com/workshops. Please read below for a summary of the topics covered in each workshop. Tai Chi Essential Workshops: 1 History, Principles, and the Evolution of the Tao You may study or hear Wu-Wei, Yin Yan, Tai Chi for a long time. But how are them relate to our practice of Tai Chi Chuan? Reading these philosophical principles always help us to comprehend the ... Read Full Story
Written by johncrewdson on
I just read a sales letter for a martial arts video that made the statement, ‘The armed forces create soldiers in 3 months.’ The implication being that it shouldn’t take all that long to learn tai chi or any other martial art. While this may be true to a point it’s an interesting over-simplification. I imagine if someone with a modicum of ability were put into an intensive training regime to study tai chi, where their core beliefs were torn down and replaced with more self-empowering beliefs, and they were told they needed a certain level of skill to survive, they could be reasonably ... Read Full Story
Written by dojorat on
I just got back from another great weekend workshop with our Tai Chi Chuan instructor Michael Gilman. This class was on what he calls "The Inner Journey", and delves into the hidden ways of movement that make for really great Tai Chi Chuan. Michael explains things in great detail, and this is the second of an eight-part series. In Tai Chi Chuan, the power is generated from "the root". In this video, Michael explains the importance of "gathering" to the inside of the foot and "releasing"(energy) from the outside of the foot and the heel. This is the key to success in rooting and ... Read Full Story
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