Thread: QiGong Combat
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Old 05-10-2005, 04:37 AM   #5
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Re: QiGong Combat

Yeh, as a practioner (albiet a bit crap) of tai chi, chi gung and aikido, I would have said that tai chi IS what you are describing. I thought the whole point of tai-chi was that it is integrated (i.e. health and combat). I admire your direction, but I don't understand how what you are trying to develop differs from tai-chi? (most martial tai-chi students would do chi gung as well, and aikido's 'rowing exercise' is a chi building exercise, no?).

I know many Yang-style instructors now forget to mention anything about the martial application, which seems a shame since I don't believe all the health benefits can be done effectively without it (this is the yin-yang aspect).

Ian

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