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Tai Chi by Graham Horwood
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Summary: Tai Chi Chuan as a martial art, and its decline.

Before the evolution of Tai Chi as meditation practice, or as an alternative inner healing practice, Tai Chi was an efficient and deadly combat art that originated in ancient China.

As it was originally conceived, Tai Chi Chuan (the complete name translates as ‘Supreme Ultimate Force’) is a method of fighting based on neutralizing an opponent’s use of force before applying a countering force of his own. Thus, with this concept alone, one can judge that Tai Chi Chuan is more suited as a fighting art than anything else.

The most dominant argument of traditionalists is Tai Chi Chuan being used as any other practice except combat. Their argument states that if you practice Tai Chi for health reasons, you will not obtain its best benefits. Likewise, if you do

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Tai Chi by Graham Horwood
TAI CHI CHUAN. CHI KUNG. PA QUA CHANG. HSING I CHUAN. Holistic Centres. for Complementary Medicine … THE BODY IS THE MERE VISIBILITY OF THE SOUL. THE …

Tai Chi as a dance, you may achieve the flexibility, elegance, muscle loosening and stamina, but not reap everything it offers. Practicing it as martial art alone can get you the full benefit it offers even if you are in a dance or on a health regimen. If you train in Combat Tai Chi, these elements are obtainable since all these features are essential for every Tai Chi fighter.

Combat Tai Chi employs a kind of slow-tempo maneuvers. Redirecting force rather than meeting it head on, dissipating a force by going with it rather than against it, this makes it

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