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WUDE – Martial Morality

| July 23, 2018

Martial morality has always been a required discipline in Chinese martial arts society. Teachers have long considered martial morality to be the most important criterion for judging students, and they have made it the most important part of the training in the traditional Chinese martial arts. It includes two aspects: the morality of deed and

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Tai Chi Chuan – real Martial Art

| July 9, 2018

Hopefully that video will help you understand that Tai Chi Chuan isn’t only moving meditation, but can be a real Martial Art. The principles that taiji uses for fighting are quite different from those of most other martial styles, which rely on muscular force. Taiji uses the soft to defend against the hard, and weakness

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Some Remarks About Sparring

| June 20, 2018

Taijiquan is an internal style of Chinese martial arts. All Chinese martial styles, after a thousand years of practice and experience, understand that in order to have an effective way of fighting, they must acquire the four skills of kicking, striking, wrestling, and Qin Na. The skills of kicking and striking are good for subduing

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How Fascia Can Help Us Unravel Deeply Held Tension

| May 30, 2018

The Gifts of Fascia Once you’ve experienced the aha moments that accompany practices that release the body’s fascia, there’s no going back. You know it. A subtle shift. A feeling of letting go. Maybe you haven’t been able to describe it in words. It’s an experience that needs to be felt. But you know it. You may

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Ealing Tai Chi video

| May 5, 2018

We just publish short video on Youtube about our Ealing Tai Chi classes. Practising Yang style Tai Chi in our school is life process – you always find more and more to develop 🙂 It never get easier… You just get BETTER!!

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Practicing Tai Chi helps improve respiratory function in patients with COPD

| April 19, 2018

Tai Chi offers a low-cost, easily accessible alternative to pulmonary rehabilitation, according to a new study in the journal CHEST® Finding ways to help patients with COPD improve their functional status is an area of interest for pulmonary healthcare providers. Currently, pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is used where available to improve exercise capacity and quality of

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The real life stories behind kung fu movie legends

| March 26, 2018

We dig into the lives of Wong Fei-Hung, Ip Man, San Te, Huo Yuanjia and more, as we look at the people who inspired classic kung-fu movies. While martial arts films can often be outlandish or fantasy-themed, there are many rooted in true stories of kung fu through the ages. They take liberties with the

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Reflections on Taijiquan—A Complex Art

| March 6, 2018

One of the best decisions I ever made in my life is to learn Taijiquan. It is one thing that has always brought me great happiness. I cannot deny how much health I have gained, how balanced my mind has become, and how deeply I have pondered life since I began training it at 16

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An Introduction to Qi and Qigong

| January 23, 2018

If you study the history of the human race, you will see that a large part of this history has been taken up with war, conquest, killing, and the struggle for power. We have tended to worship as heroes those who could conquer and rule other countries, and we have wrongly educated each new generation

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The Standing Eight Brocades Qigong: Exercises 1, 2 & 3

| January 23, 2018

The standing set of the Eight Pieces of Brocade qigong is more popular than the sitting set, so there are more versions of it. You should not worry about which version is better or more accurate, because the basic principles are the same. It is more important that you really understand the root of the

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