Three Things People Should Understand About Tai Chi Chuan

Taiji Quan, the Grand Ultimate Fist, but what makes it so supreme

? What makes Taiji ultimate is that it takes brainpower to make work. This is not to insult other martial arts, but an inspection of the concepts necessary to Tai Chi that should convince most people that what I have just said is true.

I've selected three of the many principles that a person should learn to get anywhere in the art of the Grand Ultimate Fist. The first concept is nothing more than nothing. Most arts will take this idea only so far as having the fist loose before impact, what is commonly called focus, but that is where the true art really starts.

To get anywhere in Taiji one must learn that the entire body must become loose and empty. By becoming loose and empty the body can better sense incoming energies, and thus better use them. This is easily understood if one understands that light travels best through nothingness, and in Tai Chi the body must become a vacuum so pure that senses can travel through it, and emanate from it.

The second principle deals with the making of power. In my base art, Karate, this was developed through taking stances hard and fast and causing the tan tien to explode with power. This is fine, except that tai chi relies on a slower explosion of power from the Tan Tien.

To make power in the Grand Ultimate Art one must take the low stance and grind the motion back and forth between the legs, and round and round in the hips. Power comes up the legs and the tan tien churns out energy. Thus, there is a fine line between emptiness of the body, and the power generation of the legs.

Third concept, and, again, there are many more concepts, is the idea of moving slowly. Many people move slowly, and they marvel at how much world there is to see. Unfortunately, most people don't understand that Tai Chi is first and foremost a fighting art.

Thus, when people move slowly in Tai Chi Chuan, they must not just relax and move slowly, they must actively push energy from their tan tien and fill up the body and direct it through their limbs. This is a point many people don't understand, but which is crucial to the principle of enacting the imagination, and making the imagination actuate the true powers of a student. The feeling should be like swimming and the air should feel like molasses, but the waters are imagination, and the resistance is very real, very worthwhile, and totally related to combat.

There is so much to learn, an eternity to learn, and Matrix Tai Chi is a perfect art to enable the learning process. The trick is to relax the mind and awaken the possibilities, the trick is to relax and let oneself absorb knowledge. The trick is to realize that it is not just art we are talking about when we speak of the Grand Ultimate, but the actual human spirit.

by: Al Case

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