Chinese Kung Fu Uniforms: Traditional Chinese silk clothing for Tai Chi and Martial Arts Masters

Chinese Kung Fu Uniform:  Traditional Chinese silk clothing for Tai Chi and Martial Arts Masters
Traditional Chinese silk clothing has a long history, dating back to the 27th century BC.
Once the skill of spinning silk, or sericulture, was discovered, the Chinese made silk exclusively for 3,000 years without divulging the secret of the process and it […]

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Tai Chi Skills: Internal Styles Taijiquan and Taiji Weapons

Tai Chi Skills: Internal Styles Taijiquan and Taiji Weapons
In internal styles, YMAA focuses mainly on traditional Yang Style Taijiquan which originated from Yang, Ban-Hou (楊班候). However, other styles of Taijiquan, such as Chen (陳氏, Wu 吳氏, and Sun 孫氏, will be introduced through seminars with qualified masters. In addition, YMAA will continue to invite well […]

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Chinese Martial Arts: External Styles Kung Fu and Shaolin Temple Martial Skills

Chinese Martial Arts: External Styles Kung Fu and Shaolin Temple Martial Skills
You should know the Shaolin Temple if you want to learn Chinese Kung Fu. Also, you should learn Shaolin Chuan or Kung Fu if you know the Shaolin Temple.
External Styles (Shaolin White Crane and Long Fist) (白鶴﹐長拳, Bai He, Changquan)
Shaolin White Crane specializes in […]

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Iflove Kung Fu News and Articles Colletion: Learn Chinese Martial Arts and Conquer the World

Iflove Kung Fu News and Articles Colletion: Learn Chinese Martial Arts and Conquer the World
A Brief History of the Chinese Martial Arts
The beginning of Chinese martial arts probably started long before history was recorded. Martial techniques were discovered or created during the long epoch of continuous conflict between humanity and animals, or between different tribes […]

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Martial Morality, a Required Discipline in Chinese Kung Fu or Martial Arts Society

Martial Morality, a Required Discipline in Chinese Kung Fu or Chinese Martial Arts Society
Martial morality has always been a required discipline in Chinese martial arts society. Teachers have long considered martial morality to be the most important criterion for judging students, and they have made it the most important part of the training in the […]

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Kung Fu Training: Safest Way to Avoid Common Injuries in Chinese Martial Arts Training

Kung Fu Training: Safest Way to Avoid Common Injuries in Chinese Martial Arts Training
Hand Conditioning: Traditionally, iron sand palm provided a method of conditioning the hands, which, once training was completed, would greatly enhance one’s ability to kill or seriously injure an opponent. Iron sand palm was very popular in ancient times, and almost every […]

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Tai Chi Movement Concept and Essentials

Tai Chi Movement Concept and Essentials. Under regulation of “Root in Tai Chi”, Tai Chi has continually absorbed Tai Chi philosophy and gradually completed composition of philosophy and Quan theory in its long term practice, and now through Quanshu sports (Shadowboxing), Tai Chi may embody elegence of Tai Chi philosophy, exhibit brilliance of rational Tai […]

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Tai Chi Chuan: Diagram of Thirteen Trends and Tai Chi Derivation

Tai Chi Chuan: Diagram of Thirteen Trends and Tai Chi Derivation
This showed that denomination of Tai Chi was based on comparison with the eight basic movement methods and five forms to the Eight Diagrams, Five Xing and its generated number of “Yi with Tai Chi Diagram”.
Except aforesaid analogies on movements & forms and practice contents […]

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Tai Chi practice methods and ancient boxing table

Tai Chi practice methods and ancient boxing table
There are two sorts of sayings in Tai Chi practice methods and ancient Quan tables that compare the  “Thirteen Trends” to generated number of Tai Chi. One was Chen Ziming’s analogy of  “Thirteen” to the generated number of Tai Chi. The derivation procedure of Tai Chi was like […]

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Chinese Kung Fu Preview: Chi Kung or Qigong and Taoism

Chinese Kung Fu Preview: Chi Kung or Qigong and Taoism
Qigong is being used as part of the Traditional Chinese Medication (TCM) in preventive and therapeutic health care. Qi is seen as the vital energy in one’s body to maintain life. Qigong will train one to work on physical to control and exercise this energy for […]

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