VHS: Taiji Chin Na In-Depth 2

Chin Na is the art of seizing and controlling, and is an element of all Chinese martial arts including Taijiquan.

Today, most people practice Taijiquan to maintain health or cure sickness. For the last fifty years the martial aspects of Taijiquan have been ignored, and the art is now incomplete. Most practitioners no longer understand the martial applications of Taijiquan, or even that it is a martial art. For example, the concept and training methods of Taiji martial power (Jin), and how to apply internal Qi (internal energy) in the martial arts have become an unfamiliar subject in Taiji societies today. As a result, actual martial applications of Jin and Qi, such as Chin Na or Cavity Strikes, are currently not popularly known or studied.

This video reveals effective, powerful Chin Na techniques hidden in the Yang style postures, the Eight Moving Patterns including Rotating Neutralizing and Counterclockwise

Coiling in Crossed Pushing Hands.

• Rotating Neutralizing
• White Crane Nods Its Head
• White Crane Twists Its Neck
• Lift the Elbow to Break the Wing
• White Crane Covers Its Wings
• Hands Embrace a Guitar
• White Crane Bores the Bush
• Large Python Turns Its Body
• Large Roc Twists Its Wing

Crossed Hands Counterclockwise Coiling (Yin Coiling)

• Small Finger Hook (Seal Tightly)
• Thumb Press
• Prop Up Elbow (Play the Guitar)(Seal Tightly)(Wardoff)
• Roast Peking Duck (Seal Tightly)
• Old Man Carries Fish on his Back
• Turning Around Heaven and Earth (The Crane Spreads Its Wings)
• Arm Wraps Around the Dragon’s Neck
• Backward Upward Turning (Grasp the Sparrow’s Tail – Right)

AUTHOR(S)

Yang, Jwing-Ming Ph.D., is a renowned author and teacher of Chinese martial arts and Qigong. Born in Taiwan, he has trained and taught Taijiquan, Qigong and Chinese martial arts for over forty-five years. He is the author of over thirty books, and was elected by Inside Kung Fu magazine as one of the 10 people who has "made the greatest impact on martial arts in the past 100 years." Dr. Yang lives in Newton, Massachusetts.