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Cheng Man Ching
Our aim: Preserving the Taiji community’s effort
When Cheng Man Ching unexpectedly died in 1975, he was buried with a traditional ceremony, which included the writing of a so-called funerary biography.
Our main interest lies in the roots and branches of Yang Style resp. Cheng Man Ching Taijiquan…
When we cut, and even more so when we thrust, we must do it softly.
“If you hold the blade over your head, 10,000 sword faeries will laugh at you.”
I have chosen five applications from the Cheng Man Ch’ing Sword form, in order to illustrate the Tai Chi principles at work.
This method is a health regime, a martial art and a way to enlightenment. The practitioner follows the changes of “Ti” or the Universe and is the Micro version of the Macro. Ti, in Mandarin, means Earth or our reality, three dimension plus time/space.
Momentum is used in Tai Chi while doing the forms, along with centrifugal force, gravity and levity.
to go with the flow and not to struggle against it-