Tai Chi for health & wellbeing
Here’s a short clip of Bruce Frantzis talking about the 7 key principles of Tai Chi Push Hands. Very interesting and below is a summary of the points he makes.
1. Constant contact
2. Always shifting your weight back and forth
3. Don’t use muscular strength
Here’s a very clever and funny clip of Darth Vader practicing a Tai Chi sword form. After watching this I think I’ll come over to the dark side 😉
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EOZ5vx9ubY[/youtube]
Footnote: I found this clip from one of my facebook friends Toni Tan
Here is a short clip showing the late master Cheng Tin Hung in 1986 demonstrating ‘Step Back and Repulse Monkey’.
I’ve been practicing this technique, left and right side, and wasn’t aware until now there are two more applications – against a reverse punch. That’s a total of four applications for ‘Step Back and Repulse Monkey’.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBxIng2L0X8[/youtube]
Here’s a very good clip by Glen Hairston that shows the correct way of throwing a Tai Chi punch at various distances.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KAT2NQ9ynk[/youtube]
I’ve heard of monkey Kung Fu, but I think this monkey is making a monkey of monkey kung fu 🙂
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWiWFC9lVv0[/youtube]