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  2. Taoist tai chi - Wikipedia

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    Tai chi generally provides health benefits. In all the forms of tai chi there are movements that involve briefly standing on one leg, which may improve balance; circular movements of the shoulders and wrists which improve suppleness and circulation; learning the sequence of the set movements may improve cognitive function such as concentration; the social atmosphere can sometimes forge ...

  3. Tai chi - Wikipedia

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    Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art.Initially developed for combat and self-defense, [1] for most practitioners it has evolved into a sport and form of exercise.As an exercise, tai chi is performed as gentle, low-impact movement in which practitioners perform a series of deliberate, flowing motions while focusing on deep, slow breaths.

  4. Bajiquan - Wikipedia

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    This includes the fist, forearm, elbow, shoulder, hip, thigh, knee, and foot to deliver a powerful blow in close range. Bajiquan is also known as the " bodyguard style ", as this was the pugilism style taught and used by personal bodyguards for Mao Zedong , Chiang Kai-shek , and Puyi (the last Qing dynasty emperor).

  5. Miranda Esmonde-White - Wikipedia

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    Esmonde-White combined her own movements and elements of ballet, tai chi, and physiotherapy. [1] Classical Stretch was designed to relieve pain, increase athletes' speed, and lengthen the muscles of the full body. [6] The technique is continuous movement, usually standing. Barre work can be done using a chair or counter top.

  6. Pushing hands - Wikipedia

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    Pushing hands, Push hands or tuishou (alternately spelled tuei shou or tuei sho) is a two-person training routine practiced in internal Chinese martial arts such as baguazhang, xingyiquan, tai chi, and yiquan. It is also played as an international sport akin to judo, sumo and wrestling, such as in Taiwan, where the biannual Tai Chi World Cup is ...

  7. Lee-style tai chi - Wikipedia

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    Chee Soo's tai chi classes invariably included Qigong or energy cultivation, and Daoyin or breathing exercises. [12] The Lee style qigong exercises are called K'ai Men (开门) or 'Open Door'. Chee Soo wrote a book in 1983 under the title Chinese Yoga (later re-titled "Taoist Yoga"), which was devoted entirely to this aspect of the Arts. [13]

  8. Naihanchi - Wikipedia

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    The kata are intricate strategies of attacking and defensive movement, done in either naihanchi (or naifanchi) dachi, a shoulder-width stance with the toes angled inwards, or the kiba dachi, for the purpose of conditioning the legs to develop explosive power. If one rotates one's torso a few degrees to one side or the other while performing ...

  9. List of tai chi forms - Wikipedia

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    56 - Fu-style tai chi seven star sword; 58 - Chen Sword, Beijing Branch (Chen Fake) 60 - Wu-style tai chi Jian (Created by Master Chian Ho Yin) 62 - Chen Single Sword; 64 - 5 Section 2 person tai chi; 67 - Movement Yang-style tai chi Sword Form; 84 - Wu Style Heaven and Earth Sword Form (Qian Kun Jian) 92 - Wudang Single Sword; 108 - Wu ...

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