Here’s a clip from our new “Internal Iron Body in 100 Days” DVD.

Enjoy!

Here’s another clip from our new dvd Internal Iron Palm in 100 Days.

This 2 Disc DVD includes:

• Tai Chi Internal Iron Palm 100 Days Method
• Training After 100 Days
• Tai Chi Iron Palm Street Applications
• Speed Training
• and more…

Here’s some video from the new Combat Tai Chi DVD. This clip shows some of the Fa Jing and a few other things that are on the DVD.

There’s a lot more on this DVD than what is show here. For more info click here.

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.

Explosive speed has to be relaxed. You can’t be stiff as a board and have explosive speed. you can be fast but not explosive. You have to let everything go to have whip-like speed. A whip is not a board it’s a piece of rope that will flow because that is what’s necessary to produce the speed.

There are a lot of whips in Tai Chi, but to do them you must be relaxed.

The other thing is whole body power while in motion. How does the 70 year old beat the 20 year old?

If the 70 year old weighs 150lbs, and he can touch the 20 year old and make sure that 150lbs hits the 20 year old in the head. The 20 year old will drop like anybody else.

So the trick is to make sure that on the contact 150lbs of body weight goes in. That your entire body weight gets received by the person being contacted, hit, touched or whatever.

Here is another skill you will develop with the new Internal Power DVD.

Some application & examples of the use of the open hand in Bagua.  Advanced Bagua is taught in our silat program.

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.

Our Latest Tai Chi video clip on youtube:

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

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” link at the bottom of any post.

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 should practice the moves individually so that they can become familiar with them before trying to do a complete set. More advanced students can also use this to gain a greater understanding of both the body mechanics and the energetics that each move utilizes.