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So, I don't know if I'll offend any maximalists here, but I want to write a bit about dance. I'm 52, and took my first Tai Chi class when I was 21. It was Chen style, and I was really dedicated for almost two years. I remember when I experienced the difference in how I now felt about my relation to my center, and to my hips. It's like a feeling of floating on top of the structure of the hips, legs, and heels. It was a profound change in how I understood movement. Then there were times practicing various Yang forms; a few different teachers, forms, and periodic redicovery via book or video (I ..read more

I often see something where someone demonstrates Taiji or a move in Taiji or the explain something about the Taiji they're doing and they say something like: "This is the way we do it in our tradition (or "lineage" or whatever)". Ultimately, what they're saying is that Taiji can be many different things and all of those things are legitimate Taijiquan. But that can't be true, can it? "Taijiquan" isn't really all that special or unique of a name and it's been applied to a lot of Chinese martial arts for many generations. The basic meaning of Taijiquan is that it constantly cycles between Open ..read more

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Since Single Whip/danbian has been a frequent topic of discussion lately, I think it’s worthwhile to delve a bit more into what the term danbian “Single Whip” really means. u/atomic-Taijiquan posted an article discussing possible origins of the term about a month ago in this sub. We both agreed that 單鞭 dānbiān “single whip” deriving from a corruption of 扁擔 biǎndan “shoulder pole” amounts to folk etymology. The phrase danbian is already attested in Qi Jiguang’s Quan Jing Jie Yao “Essentials of Unarmed Combat” from the 16th century, which would have been a document familiar to Chen Wangting—he ..read more

These are the ways I was taught that single whip could express submitted by /u/Aeonhero_Mrk85 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more