Taiji Thirteen Positions Movement Characteristics

Taijiquan's 13 movements are characterized as follows:

Taijiquan is easy and soft, not constrained and not rigid, and is in harmony with the natural physiology. Soft activities are conducive to body relaxation and breathing naturally, suitable for people of different ages, genders and physical fitness for exercise, will not occur sports accidents. Especially for the weak and chronically ill, is a better means of physical therapy, so soft is the main feature of taijiquan movement.

Taijiquan exercise should be slow rather than fast, practicing from slow, this is one of the important features of taijiquan exercise, slow to facilitate the mastery of the essentials, slow and non-stop action, the amount of exercise is large. The movements of Taijiquan (upper limbs) are based on various curved lines, which are flexible, natural and smooth to avoid going straight.

The movement is round and active, not stagnant and not rigid, it is necessary to take the waist as the axis, and the theory of Taijiquan emphasizes the movement of the waist, which is called "dominating the hand and waist". Therefore, round activity is very important in taijiquan movement. The whole set of taijiquan movements, are closely linked, coherent air, looks as if the clouds and water, continuous, so as to receive a good exercise effect.

Taijiquan movement requires "a movement without movement", and the movement requires the up and down with each other, internal (ideas, breathing) and external (limbs, trunk) together, so each playing a trend should have integrity, and from beginning to end, it is more necessary to have the characteristics of the complete gas.

Thirteen Taiji posture explained:

1, shed: to tension, to round support, not the top, is viscous force, to be flexible. To follow the trend of traction, two arms round support, waist a turn embrace is also. Embracing is channeling strength, can not be hard to resist. Embrace strength is the foundation of all kinds of strength, all the time, everywhere, everywhere to keep embrace strength not lost.

2. Stroke: the front should be light, do not let the other party to recognize my intention too early. To be introduced without being detected in order to form strokes. Will not be too far away, will be in the hall, but also the day will be in the ruler, to be within the arm ulna. In addition to hand strokes, the front leg can stroke the opponent's front leg, the foot can be stroked, the body can also be stroked.

3, squeeze: to turn horizontally, do not squeeze straight out, that is the top. Squeeze is to squeeze the car that strength, the people to the sides of the dial. Horizontal is a strong road to the waist as the axis.

4, press: to be loose and calm, to use the whole body's strength, especially with the waist. Pressing the hand is basically immobile, as if pumping or carting, the hand posture is appropriate, the rest is the body movement. Press to have a sense of offense, to use a whole body strength.

5, pick: to real, a hand on the shed, a hand under the shed, shed strength two points, so-called pick. Picking to pick solid. Cai is also formed in the movement, it is important to foot deception, grab the other party's center of gravity. Picking in the ten fingers, picking in a little section.

6, 挒: to be cold and brittle, sticky clothes and hair, it seems that the limbs have been almost to the end of the movement, sudden force, known as hijin. To rotate the force, do not move hard.

7, elbow: to punch, to have the feeling of forward, waist and hips first forward, after the elbow forward waist and hips backward, the formation of support strength. In addition, the elbow is not only to fight, to be able to wrap the elbow, a hand when wrapped, the opponent can be wrestled out. When the other side into the available time to wrap its time, he retreated, with the time into its chest.

8, leaning: to collapse, two-handed fist or palm does not matter, in addition to the back, there are shoulders, elbows, hips, hips, and so on a lot, different from the crash.

9, into: progress in lifting the leg must not be too high.

10, retreat: straight retreat easy to collapse, oblique retreat to horizontal.

11, Gu: left.

12, hope: right hope, two eyes sweeping care of both sides, to prevent sneak attack and sound east to west.

13, fixed: in the fixed, with the balance of the encounter.

Taiji Thirteen Positions:

Taiji Thirteen Positions is a traditional Chinese boxing art with a long history, belonging to China's first generation of internal martial arts, which was created by Master Sanfeng. Thirteen Positions consists of thirteen groups of movements with a strong sense of attack and defense, such as Starting Position, Holding the Ball Positions, Single Push Positions, Exploring Positions, Taking Positions, Pouncing Positions, Stretching Positions, Splitting Positions, Clouds Positions, Turning Positions, Double Push Positions, Downward Positions and Closing Positions, and so on. The group is composed of thirteen maneuvers with a strong sense of offense and defense.

Which contains three Taoist internal cultivation techniques such as spitting and guiding, picking up and replenishing the Mixed Yuan Pile, however, the thirteen potential actions are also based on the need to exercise the human body's eight veins compiled by the eight veins are connected to the five internal organs, the entire set contains five internal organs and eight veins, outside of the five steps of eight methods, as well as the work of the thirteen combinations of prevention and defense, allowing for Taoism to maintain the body of the Dan art, so it is said that the "Taiji thirteen potentials "The whole set contains the five viscera and eight veins, and there are five steps and eight methods.