Eight Gates Information

 Eight Gates info 

1. Peng or Ward-off

2. Lu or Roll-back

2. Lu or Roll-back

3. Chi or Press

3. Chi or Press

4. An or Push

5. Tsai or Pull-down

6. Lieh or Split

6. Lieh or Split

7. Chou or Elbow

7. Chou or Elbow

8. Kao or Shoulder-strike

The Eight Gates

 

The Five Elements

The Five Elements

The “Wu Xiang”, also known as the Five Phases of Change.

Table of correspondences

Table of Correspondences

Element	Wood	Fire	Earth	Metal	Water
Direction	East	South	Center	West	North
Season	Spring	Summer	Indian summer	Autumn	Winter
Climate	Windy	Hot	Damp	Dry	Cold
Emotion	Anger	Joy	Pensive	Grief	Fear
Taste	Sour	Bitter	Sweet	Pungent	Salty
Sense Organ	Eye	Tongue	Mouth	Nose	Ear
Yin Organ	Liver	Heart	Spleen	Lungs	Kidney
Tang Organ	Gall Bladder	Small Intestine	Stomach	Large Intestine	Urinary Bladder
Tissue	Tendons	Blood Vessels	Flesh	Skin	Bones
Western Element	Fire	Water	Aether(?)	Air	Earth

Link Section

1 school:
The Magic Tortoise Taijiquan School : Run by Director/Shifu Dr. Jay Dubar (Ph.D.) and located in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina.

1 shameless plug:
Tai Chi in a Chair : This is a friend of mine who combines modern and ancient medicines as a solution to health care in the 21st century.

Fa jin, fajin or fa chin (fājìn, 發勁) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Yin and Yang Breathing Exercise -- This helps you coordinate your breathing

Everyday Tai Chi - Tai Chi exercises for everyone, any time, any place -- This is always updated with new things. Don't miss out! Also look at their ancient chinese wisdom link. Tai Chi is an ancient art with many of its fundamental principles reflecting ancient Chinese wisdom. To get you started on the path here is a collection of quotes and sayings from Chinese sages.

http://www.everydaytaichi.org/ - with Lucille Chun

Lucy and her husband Ken taught tai chi for many years on the island of Oahu in East Honolulu at Kileauea Recreation Center.  They taught Yang style tai chi including Yang 10, 24, 16 and the 88 form. 

This website is the product of Lucy's hard and diligent work as a teacher.  Unfortunately in October 2020 Lucy passed after a sudden acute brief illness.  Her program of teaching tai chi has transitioned to a smaller venue with Ken continuing to teach Yang  Style taichi 10, 16, 24, and 88 form at Anakoa Pavilion

In spite of her passing one can still learn more about Lucy and enjoy her tai chi aloha at her website everydaytaichi.org.  It still offers access to a large library of previous lessons as well as notes and information concerning tai chi.

The Six Part Walk

Friends,

This is a long time in coming. You have been waiting patiently for this. Feel free to ask questions about it any time. We will be doing this over & over to get proficient, so you should know this. Please note the weight shifting aspects of this (denoted with a dashed arrow). You can only move an "empty" foot.

I take no credit for this drawing. It was given to me from one of Dr. Jay's students. :)

9 Temple Exercises

Just thought I'd scan a few pages and get these out. They are really good. If I ever get enough time, I'll type in the text for those exercises that are illegible. They are simple enough to do anytime. I especially like the "Prayer Wheel" one. You can do this alone in an elevator, waiting for your coffee to get warm in the microwave or anywhere you find yourself standing around with nothing better to do. Personally, I am guilty of all of the above. Hope you will be too! :)

Addendum:
Oh, by the way...I have a scanned version of this in PDF format and if you contact me here, I will e-mail it to you. For some reason (security related?), I can't upload that kind of file. Luckily I have can convert it to jpg format. You get 12 images,

	Intro
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