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- Tue May 23, 2006 11:10 am
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: San Shou taiji seminars
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8489
Re: questions
How are laternal movements of left and right applied with the left and right arm striking? these are regularly taught in our sanshou classes, both on wednesday evenings and on saturday mornings. the michuan system includes snake stepping, diagonal stepping, side stepping, and lotus blossom stepping...
- Tue May 23, 2006 10:43 am
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: Michuan and Chen Style
- Replies: 61
- Views: 103949
validation of skill
I take issue with the underlying assumptions. I believe we live in an overly aggressive world. The spirit of our art is to create balance in the world. As martial artists, sometime we may have to create that balance with our palms, feet, or swords. But this can only be done with a peacful heart, min...
- Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:48 pm
- Forum: GRTC Announcements
- Topic: DC Saturday Seminars for 2006
- Replies: 11
- Views: 25352
After speaking with students and classmates, i've come up with the following as a fairly comprehensive list of topics people are interested in for 2006 seminars. We will use this forum to narrow it down to about 8 topics. If there is anything, taiji related, that you don't see on this list but that ...
- Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:20 pm
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: some thougts about training methods
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7363
... I think the art and spirituality are higher goals than the martial applications, but it is the martial applications that keep us honest. Josh that's a great way to put it. i wasn't interested in learning a martial art when i began training at GRTC. i'm not sure i even realized that taiji was a ...
- Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:40 am
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: Jingshen
- Replies: 18
- Views: 25903
improving jingshen
so if qi is cultivated through the use of yi and yi comes from the jingshen , it seems that jingshen is vital for developing an advanced skill in taijiquan . the question naturally arises, how does one improve one's jingshen ? i'm not expecting that the classics will give a complete answer to this. ...
- Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:28 pm
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: Taijiquan for Health...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 49591
re: taiji for health
From Master Cheng's New Method of T'Ai Chi Self-Cultivation by Man-Ching Cheng Page 25: "Every joint in your body must be strung together. This allows qi to pass smoothly through your body and benefits both form and application. Issuing energy and uprooting your opponent especially requires an unifi...
- Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:16 am
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: Diet and Nutrition
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12785
nutrition
i agree with bede. i'm primarily a vegitarian and have been for years. i eat fish maybe once a month and other meat even less than that, but i have never had a problem with energy, as far as my taiji practice goes. i would add that, in addition to getting enough sleep, making sure the body is hydrat...