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What are Internal Tai Chi Skills?

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What are Internal Tai Chi Skills? Internal Tai Chi Skills are what is going on inside the practitioner of Tai Chi and…

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Nei Jia – 7 Criteria of the Internal Martial Arts

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…the very next thing that is evaluated and looked at are the internal aspects usually stated as “are they internal”. To someone who has not heard this before it obviously begs the question, “what is internal?”.

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Nei Gung Benefits

In Tai Chi Nei Gung the Wu Chi physical and energetic alignments begin the energetic process by allowing the electrical energy to build and flow.  This causes the Micro Cosmic Orbit and the Macro Cosmic Orbit to turn on without the practitioner having to individually focus on them by themselves.  Physical and energetic blockages can [...]

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Empty Force

The Empty Force is a higher level of Tai Chi Nei Gung expression. Although I have seen and exhibited Empty Force energy at a very high level it is relatively rare in the West. Due to the controversial nature of Empty Force most teachers who know or are familiar with Empty Force don’t even like [...]

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Nei Gung Skills

The basic Tai Chi Nei Gung Skills include but are not limited to: Wu Chi The Micro Cosmic Orbit The Macro Cosmic Orbit Bone Marrow Washing 3 Dan Tiens Linear Golden Bell Covered Iron Body String of Pearls internal unification and manipulation of energy Fa Jing internal transfer of force without external physical movement Empty [...]

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Tai Chi Nei Kung

Most high level Tai Chi Nei Kung can be practiced either stationary or while you are performing your Tai Chi set.  In other words, you do not have to practice Tai Chi and then practice nei kung seperately.  It should all happen at the same time.  Once you really have the internal feel and understanding [...]

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Nei Kung Training

If a skilled opponent can see and understand my alignments, my weight distribution or the energetics I’m using then they can use that against me. In this article I have given some examples of what can be accomplished with proper nei kung training so that you can get an idea of what is actually involved. [...]

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NeiGung & Internal Iron Body

See the Nei Gung post for the first part in this series on Neigung Neigung has many amazing self defense benefits. Iron Body training exists in both internal and external Chinese training methods.  Of course the methods are quite different from one another.  Iron shirt usually refers to an external kind of Iron Body created [...]

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Nei gung

Nei gung literally translates as internal work. Most people involved in the martial arts have heard of Chi Kung / Qi Gong which translates as Energy work but most people are not familiar with nei gung or they may have heard of nei gung but do not have any idea what it means. The 3 [...]

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