The swordswoman Yue Nu was famous for having vanquished all challengers. She was able to successfully fight several men at the same time and was in charge of training the king’s swordsmen.
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This Tai Chi Aspect encourages you just to play your form – without questioning, without remembering details, without trying to improve, without wanting to get something out of it.
A calligrapher will illustrate the correct energy and movement for the brush by displaying a sword movement, and …
Going faster helps you to check your knowledge of the choreography.
What we learn in Tai Chi has universal validity, that which comes at us, should be returned.
I am separating the fencing study into four parts in order to clarify these stages.
It is said in western sport fencing that “It’s all in the wrist”. With Tai Chi sword work “It’s all in the centre”.
Using a sword in the Tai Chi way will enhance your relationship with any instrument, be it a shovel, a brush, or a violin.
In fencing if the O pushes our blade in a circle we take that energy, continuing the O’s circle, adding a little speed and spiral toward the target – the O’s limb or body.
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…