VHS: Taiji Chin Na In-Depth 3

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 and Parallel Pushing Hands.

• Small Finger Turning
• Push the Boat to Follow the Stream
• Turning Around Heaven and Earth
• Lion Shakes Its Head (Single Whip)
• Arm Wraps Around the Neck (Look to the Heavens and Shout) (Single Whip) (Diagonal Flying) (Embrace Tiger and Return to the Mountain)
• Upward Elbow Press (Prop Up Elbow) (Lift Hands to the Up Posture) (Wardoff)
• Twist the Arm and Press the Neck (Lift Hands to the Up Posture)
• Low Outward Wrist Press (Lift Hands to the Up Posture)
• One Post to Support the Heaven
• Old Man Carries Fish on his Back
• Rotating the Sky Post
• Wild Chicken Breaks Its Wing (The Child Worships the Buddha)
• Twist the Head to Kill a Chicken (Grasp the Sparrow’s Tail – Right)
• Cloud Hands to Prop the Elbow (Wave Hands in the Clouds)
• Seven Star to Lock the Throat (Step Forward to the Seven Stars)
• Two Hands Push the Chest (Step Forward to Sweep the Lotus)
• Small Wrap Hand 2
• Pressing Shoulder with Single Finger (Reverse Elbow Wrap) (The Snake Creeps Down)
• Large Rollback
• Old Man Promoted to General
• Step Back and Repulse the Monkey

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.