Taijiquan Basic Techniques

Taijiquan basic skills include staking, crotch shaking, hand shapes, footwork, shoulder opening, waist activation, stretching, single-form training, tensing, stroking, squeezing, pressing, picking, listing, elbows, leaning, and eight methods of opening and closing, wire wrapping, and auxiliary equipment such as taijiquan rulers, taijiquan poles, taijiquan balls and so on. ......

Basic skills are the basic training for mastering and improving taijiquan techniques.

Taijiquan basic exercises:

Basic exercises are the basic training for mastering and improving the techniques of Taijiquan, and they are the fundamental links for correcting the basic postures of the human body, improving the special qualities, and strengthening the internal and external health.

Through practicing the coordination of breathing and movement in the following single forms under the rule of intention, the combination of intention, qi and power can achieve the unity of intention and power, so as to improve the special quality of the body, so as to make the movements have the strength and power of being heavy and light, robust and flexible, and to achieve the principle of rigidity in softness and the principle of needle in sheep's clothing, and to make the whole body perfect and complete, upright and secure, supporting the eight sides, and being calm and solid and strong, thus laying down a reliable foundation for the study of basic movements and routines of taijiquan. It lays a reliable foundation for learning the basic movements and routines of Taijiquan.

Feature 1: The movement of intention under the domination of the brain.

Taijiquan is the fist of practicing intention and practicing qi.

Characteristic 2: elastic movement of body and limb release.

Outwardly it appears to be a manifestation of the winding strength of the legs, but in fact it is the internal promotion of the lengthening of the legs.

Characteristic 3: the spiral movement of the smooth and reverse silk entanglement.

Taijiquan movement must be like the shape of drawing silk.

Characteristic 4: the virtual and real movement of standing in the center and following up and down.

The movement can be distinguished between the transformation of the real and the imaginary, it can be durable, which is a power activity.

Feature 5: the waist and spine with the head, inside and outside of the joint joint movement.

The waist is the center axis of left-right parallel rotation, and the spine is the root of up-and-down bending.

Feature 6: A continuous and uninterrupted flow of one breath.

The requirement is to be able to further achieve a single breath of continuous internal energy when practicing the full trip frame.

Feature 7: The rigid-flexible movement from soft to strong and from strong to soft.

The main point is to adhere to the initial, still must not lose the soft, under the soft, towards a more elastic firm just on the progress.

Feature 8: Fast and slow movement from slow to fast and from fast to slow.

From slow to fast, from fast to slow fast and slow to slow fast and slow met movement, then becomes the eighth characteristic of Taijiquan.