Tag: Form
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Treaties of Tai Chi Chuan
Famous Taiji Treatises The classical literature of Taijiquan is a fairly bounded canon of texts written between the 18th and early 20th centuries, supplemented by works attributed to earlier, sometimes legendary figures. The list below collects the principal treatises and songs that practitioners and scholars actually draw on, organised into foundational treatises, classical songs (歌訣),…
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Grasp Sparrows’s Tail is like two men sawing
This is the push-hands sequence of Wardoff, Rollback, Press and Push. The action is that of sawing. When you saw, the force at both sides should be equal; then the action is smooth. If one side tries to change the force, the saw’s teeth will bind. If my partner binds the saw, then even if…
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