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MARROW WASHING EXERCISES
A look at some of the subtler aspects of the Taoist qi gung exercises, and the way the internal subtleties of each one inform the other two.
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EXTERNAL CHANGES OF THE ARMS
Continuing the āTaijiquan With Partners Goneā series., I explain the best way to approach isolation and study of the external movements of the arms as found in the solo form.
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A Short Talk About Breathing
I just published a short video called About Breathing. This little talk concerns itself with the normal or tidal breath. It references some facts of special relevance to Taijiquan, particularly as concerns the execution of the solo form. Please take a look. I am planning to publish videos every week. If you are interested, please
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Kicking in Taijiquan
This month I am publishing an article written decades ago, which has, I feel, no less relevance now than it did then. It concerns a particularly technical matter, one which is treated very differently by various martial arts, that of the use of the kick as a weapon of combat. As I state in the
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Taijiquan: a Western Boxing Perspective
Robert Amacker In Structural Fundamentals of Taijiquan, I posited eight areas of study and practice that I deem to be fundamental to a mastery of the art, namely: posture, chansijing, differentiating substantial and insubstantial, making taijis (civil aspect), martial techniques (eight trigram postures), taking steps (five element postures), discharge, and continuous or so-called ālongā boxing.
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How Doing Taijiquan is Like Flying a Stealth Bomber
Let me say from the very start that this is not an attempt on my part to be cute, regardless of how much the title of this article might seem to support that case. Nor is it intended as simply a flattering comparison of adjectives sometimes applied to both subjects, of which invisible would be
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Video Blog
We just posted the first of a series of informal videos in which I will discuss aspects of Taijiquan that do not require demonstration or advanced understanding on the part of viewers to understand and appreciate. These may be of either a technical or philosophical nature, the kind of topics that might come up and
Three weeks in Moscow
Three weeks in a Moscow winter should qualify me for lots of sympathy – should, but then Iād have to get in line behind all those Russians. I was very impressed with the condition of the school and the Russian students, who have proven to me once more that their passion. When called in the
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California Dreaming
I once wrote a poem called āA Dream of California.ā I seem to have lost the poem, and it was longer, but it went something like this: I dreamed one night That life was long And roamed through golden hills Like fog I was a man I had a tan I moved easily Across the
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In memory of Ben Lo
I have just this hour received word of the death of my ābig brotherā and former teacher, Ben Lo. When this famous student of my first teacher, Zheng Manching, arrived in San Francisco, I went to see him and declared that I would not continue to teach at my San Francisco School, The Inner Research
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