Momentum is used in Tai Chi while doing the forms, along with centrifugal force, gravity and levity.
Cheng Man Ching
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to go with the flow and not to struggle against it-
To vie and struggle in order to win is not doing Cheng Man Ch’ing Tai Chi.
“Doctors heal the sick with Medicine and Surgery. — Tai Chi, when practiced regularly …
When Cheng Man Ching changed the Yang form, it was not simply to make it shorter.
Roll Back is not an aggressive move, it is a ‘passive’ response to an aggressive move.
Misalignments usually cause problems in other parts of the body as well.
„Swimming in air“ – practitioners of Cheng Man Ching Tai Chi know this expression as a description of Tai Chi form practice.
Fight or Flight: Tai Chi’s general attitude; or, a ‘Walk or Talk’ mode.
Cheng Man Ching’s Tai Chi System is praised by some as a corner stone of Tai Chi’s reinvention in the modern age.
Ken van Sickle is famous for his swordplay & his photographs of Cheng Man Ching
In their wisdom the ancient masters evolved the forms and passed them down. The forms are of a nature that when they are practised they inform us as…
This sometimes happens while doing forms, in dreams, while reading the Classics or viewing films of the master…