Chen Family Tai Chi - Old Form eBook
The most aggressive style of Tai Chi

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Why you should learn Tai Chi

Tai Chi is about turning the opponent's force against them. Tai Chi leverages on the impetus and weight of the enemy's attack to strike. This concept is especially powerful if the opponent is considerably larger in size or strength, as the natural advantage of the enemy is used against them.

A typical Tai Chi technique would seemingly yield to the initial inertia of the enemy's attack, and then counter-attack by pulling or pushing the enemy into a strike. You never meet your enemy head on with hard blocks. At the center of Tai Chi lies a profound appreciation of body-weight balance and how it can be coordinated and shifted.

Tai Chi means the "Supreme Singularity” in Chinese, a Taoism concept. Taoism sees all things as divided between Yin (soft, feminine, dark) and Yang (hard, masculine, light), and each balances out the other. In such terms, Tai Chi first nullifies the "Yang" of your enemy's attack with passive "Yin" techniques, before leveraging on the enemy's inertia to counter-attack. The concept of neutralizing the "Yang" of your enemy's attack with the "Yin" is symbolized by the the Tai Chi diagram. This consists of a sphere where Yin continuously flows to become Yang, and Yang flows back to become Yin.

Tai Chi is founded on circular motion. You move in a range of large circles, small circles, semi circles, arcs and spirals. The enemy's force is dissipated and redirected using circular parries. Their guard is opened using circular action of the hands and arms. Finally, they are thrown off-balance and/or hit using a blend of circular action involving all of the feet, legs, waist, upper body and hands. From the first move to the end of the form, all the moves are closely linked, flowing smoothly from one into another like the harmony of Yin and Yang.

Chen Family Tai Chi

Tai Chi encompasses a number of styles such as Chen and Yang Styles.

Chen Family Tai Chi was founded in Hebei Province by Chen Wang Tin about three centuries ago. Chen practiced martial arts since a very young age and became highly skilled and was appointed the commander of the forces of the Ming Dynasty in the province in 1641.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he went into hiding and led a simple life farming to live out the rest of his days. During this time, he also consolidated his martial arts knowledge, namely Taoist principles of fighting and breathing, into the Old Form.

Characteristics of Chen Family Tai Chi

There are no hard blocks in Chen Family Tai Chi. The aim is twofold in combat:

• To cultivate and channel a type of passive energy called the Dissolution Force (known as "Hua Qin" in Chinese) to draw in any incoming strike like a vortex and dissolve it completely; and

Chen Family Tai Chi focuses on Chi development and cultivation of the Exerted and Dissolution Forces, especially the technique known as Silk Reeling Force ("Lian Shi Qin" in Chinese). It focuses on circling to absorb and dissolve the opponent's energy like a vortex, as well as using internal will to project power. Chen Family Tai Chi is the most aggressive and dynamic of the Tai Chi styles.

What you'd find in our eBook

Our eBook looks at traditional Chen Family Tai Chi and goes through one of its most important forms, the Old Form with instructions, background concepts, drills, techniques and applications.

The Old Form is one of the classic beginner forms of Chen Family Tai Chi, designed to develop proper breathing, pushing hand techniques, understating of the Exerted Force and Dissolution Force, Silk Reeling, circular motion and persistent energy flow for combat.

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Packed with diagrams
The illustrations for the form comprise of over 248 carefully created color diagrams in addition to the many illustrations in the main body of the eBook.

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Multiple camera angles
Multiple angles of the technique are covered in the diagrams where applicable so that you can see the technique from all perspectives.

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