An illustrated comparison of the 

Tai Chi movement, Single Whip, 

as performed in four of the five 

orthodox styles of tai chi - 

Chen, Wu/Hao, Wu, and Yang.

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Lee Style Tai Chi Scarborough Summer Course

Tai Chi Group practicing Lee Style 

Tai Chi as taught by 

Master Chee Soo in Scarborough, 

North Yorkshire, England

http://www.howardgibbon.com  

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"There is no rain

without condensation. 

There is no tai chi

without releasing."

                                                             - TCJ

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See what happens when American young kids practice Taichi

 

See what happens when American young kids practice Tai Chi...

Students from Cornwall-on-Hudson Elementary School and New York Military Academy were amazed recently when they learned  some Tai Chi moves from Tai Chi master, Xiao Bing, from China’s Foshan City. It was fun to watch these American young kids practicing their newly learned skills.

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"Tai Chi: The parts 

and the whole are one." 

- TCJ 

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Yang Lu Chan (1799-1872)

  

"Yang the Unsurpassable"

 

Yang was the undefeated founder of Yang Style 

Tai Chi Chuan.An outsider, Yang was accepted 
as a student of Chen Changxing of Chen Style

Tai Chi Chuanin the Chen Village, 

Henan Province, China.

"It's not the knowing 

that is difficult, 

but the doing."

  - Chinese Proverb

- Photo by TCJ

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. William Butler Yeats
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. William Butler Yeats
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Wu Jianquan (1870-1942) 

- Co-founder (with his father)

of Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan

- Seen here practicing

tuishou (push hands) 

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Tai Chi - Xian, China

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"The path to perfection: 

engage, examine, improve." 

                                                                                             - TCJ

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"Tai Chi - Make it great. 

Make it true. Make it yours." 

                                                                           - TCJ 

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Kong Jin demo by Master Shr

THE MYSTERY OF CHI

From the Bill Moyers 

five part PBS series,

HEALING AND THE MIND (1993)

Bill Moyers and David Eisenberg, MD 

visit tai chi master, Shr, in Beijing, China

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#ChiKung #Qigong

"In tai chi we find the place 

of stillness within motion." 

                                                                            - TCJ 

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"The spirit of tai chi 

must reach beyond forms 

to vitalize one's entire existence." 

                                                                                        - TCJ 

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            "TAI CHI...

                         a blessing for the one,

                                           a gift for the many."

              

                                                                                                   - TCJ

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64 Guang Ping Yang Style Tai Chi

 

James Lusk doing the 

Guang Ping Yang Tai Chi Form

 as learned from 

Master Henry Look 

of Sacramento, CA

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"In tai chi

we can become

quiet enough

to find our true nature." 

                                                                                            - TCJ

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If there is light in the soul, 

There will be beauty in the person.

If there is beauty in the person,

There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,

There will be order in the nation.

If there is order in the nation,

There will be peace in the world.

- Chinese Proverb

- Photo by Robert Lio

"To relax and center body, 

mind, energy, and spirit... 

this is tai chi." 

                                                      - TCJ

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"I began learning tai chi 

in my living room, 

because a mountain temple 

wasn't available." 

                                                                        - TCJ

 - Photo: Wulong, Chongqing China

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EVENING TAI CHI 

- A way to put the day to rest.

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MORNING TAI CHI 

- A tune up for the day ahead.

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"The great man is he

 who does not lose

his child's heart."
                                                             - Mencius 

  Zhang Yuanzhen, 92, climbs the footsteps 

at Tiantai Mountain in Hanzhong city, 

Shaanxi province, China on June 29, 2013. 

Zhang has been a Taoist priest since he was 18. 

Then he started to learn martial arts and Taoism 

medical skills from his teacher Sang Zonglun 

in Zhouzhi county of the same province. 

He came to stay at Tiantai Mountain in 1989. 

For 92 he is in good health and can climb 

more than 2,000 footsteps everyday.

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"Only when a man 

will not do some things 

is he capable of 

doing great things." 

                                                                      - Mencius

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"To know the road ahead, 

ask those coming back." 

                                                                               - Chinese Proverb

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"Let your life breathe... 

mind, body, energy, spirit 

brought to life." 

                                                        - TCJ

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"To embrace tai chi

is to know

the form and the formless." 

                                                                              - TCJ

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"To know yourself, 

practice the form. 

To know others, 

practice push hands." 

                                                                             - Tai Chi Saying

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"The key to growth is 

the introduction of higher dimensions 

of consciousness into our awareness." 

 

                                                                             - Lao Tzu 

 

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"We invest too much 

in external appearance 

and not enough into 

internal well being." 

                                                             - TCJ

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"Learning is a treasure 

that will follow its owner 

everywhere."

– Chinese Proverb

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"For endurance seek stability

–of body, mind, 

heart, and spirit." 

                                               - TCJ

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"Tai chi can heal, 

renew, open, 

and calm." 

                                                   - TCJ 

 

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