Zhan Zhuang (Standing Pole) occupies a very important position in traditional martial arts practice. What are we actually doing and how d...

At what point and under what condition is it appropriate for your practice to change from slow to fast? There are two standard criter...

“Song” (translates as loose, unimpeded, relaxed, devoid of tension) is the most important component of Taijiquan and cannot be spoken of e...

The main purpose of form training is the extraction of its core components, referred to as its intrinsic jin. This is the ultimate aim of a...

In China the traditional transmission of the practice of Taijiquan has always been verbal and conspicuously few written descriptions of th...

The combination of movement and stillness in Taijiquan means that the combined practice of static fixed postures and dynamic form routine i...

One often hears the phrase in Taijiquan, “training ‘quan’ without training ‘gong’, in the end all efforts come to nothing”.   The acquisi...