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Tai Chi Video Clips

Combat Tai Chi: Whips, Explosive Movement & Whole Body Power

February 1, 2010

Real combat Tai chi is normally practiced slow and relaxed. The reason it’s trained this way is to train relaxation for speed and whole body power as one integrated piece.

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Tai Chi Ground Path with Fingers

January 21, 2010

Tai Chi Ground Path training is essential work for rooting and peng jings. Here’s a video clip of using your fingers with the Tai Chi Ground Path.

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Bagua Combat Applications of Open Hand Basics

November 11, 2009

Some application & examples of the use of the open hand in Bagua

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BaGua video clip

November 8, 2009

Here’s a brief clip of some Ba Gua using the principles from our Thursday night “Internal Combat Arts” class. We spent most of the class focusing on using the strikes from the people around you to power your own strikes.

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Tai Chi Cloud Hands Applications

November 4, 2009

This is just a few of the Tai Chi Cloud Hands applications from the Clear’s Tai Chi intermediate DVD #14

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Cloud Hands Answers

August 22, 2009

We were asked a couple questions about the “Tai Chi Moves for Beginners – Cloud Hands” video. One question was about the distinction between waist and hip movement while stepping, and the other was about the orientation of the hands.
Here are the answers. If you have any more question click on the “ask a question” [...]

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Tai Chi Moves for Beginners – Cloud Hands

August 21, 2009

There are many Tai Chi moves that are suitable for beginners. This is a Tai Chi move called “Cloud Hands.” It’s the sixth move in the “Big 8 Move Set.” However, you don’t need to know the whole set to practice this move.
Each move in Tai Chi can and should be practiced by itself. Beginners [...]

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Tai Chi for Combat – New Video

August 20, 2009

Here is a new trailer for the “Combat Tai Chi with Richard Clear” DVD package.

I would also like to thank Bob Pierce and the rest of the crew over at TRS for making sure everything went smoothly. They made it possible to get a lot of high quality information on film and to have fun [...]

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Mixing and Matching Jing Energy

August 16, 2009

When learning to use different Jings it’s usually best to focus on one at a time in the beginning. However, once you’ve become comfortable with a few different Jings you can begin to mix and match them. You can practice combining two or more at once or you can practice transitioning from one to another.

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What is Internal Kung Fu – video

August 15, 2009

In this trailer for the “Wu Chi and Combat Tai Chi” DVD Sigung Clear Talks about Tai Chi as Internal Kung Fu and what exactly that means.
You also get to see a bunch of us getting tossed around by Sigung Clear.
Enjoy!

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