longlived
Well does anyone know anygood sites that talk about tai chi in practice or philosphy etc?
Well, you could go to wikipedia although I do know a number of them ...
A pretty nice site with rather comprehensive articles to the internal arts and even application clips.
http://www.chiflow.com/neijiakungfu_overview.htm
A Forum for Internal Arts
http://www.emptyflower.net/forums/
A pretty good blog with rather insightful materials
http://taichinotebook.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/what-is-tai-chi-chuan/
Another nice blog with useful articles
http://taijizhe.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html
There is also a very good blog I know of, although the articles and posts on it are rather unoxythdox and the poster is no longer updating it ...
( Although he is seriously experienced in it and could actually manifest its principles physically ... )
On youtube, there are a few rather good videos.
Principles for pushing hands from Ma Wei Qi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYFcUxep9TE
4 Energies of Taiji from Bruce Kumar Frantzis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk0PCIAxD1c
Using the opponent's energy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYuSKycJzHo
Absorption
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdWnVPKlfxc
Rollback
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QdGlLW7yQ
As for philosophy, just read up on the
Dao De Ching or the
Taiji Classics by searching for them on google / yahoo.
Other than that, there are quite a number of Taiji styles like the Chen, Yang, Wu, Hao, Sun, ZhaoBao, Dong, etc. Although it is hard to find a good combat effective school among the majority that discard its fighting applications and practice solely for its health benefits instead. ( Well, don't expect every senior citizen in the park to be a master of Taiji melee combat ... )
Anyway, don't ask me for advice or anything, since I don't practice Taiji and is actually a karateka who hasn't trained for a long time and ended up as an armchair strategist ...
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