Fa Jin

Today, on Mario Napoli’s very fine Tai Chi Chuan Study Group Facebook page, one of the members, Barry Strugatz, whom I don’t know, posted an interesting Youtube piece from Harvard on the distinctly human mechanics of throwing. And Barry made the analogy of the storing of elastic tension in throwing to Tai Chi, and I’m assuming he means Fa Jin.

Gabriela CamposJune 28, 2013Cheng Man-ch'ing, David Walls-Kaufman, Fa Jin, fa jing, push hands, Tai Chi, ti fong, Yang Cheng fu

On Practice

Okay, so, yes, Tai Chi takes a regular commitment. I think the best way to think about your Tai Chi commitment and practice is to think of it as your daily ritual of meditation, which medical research tells us is essential for optimum wellbeing. Also, research tells us that physical exercise is also essential—how convenient that with Tai Chi we can kill two birds with one stone! This makes Tai Chi the neatest thing on earth . . .

Gabriela CamposAugust 5, 2011Ben Lo, Capitol Hill Tai Chi, Cheng Man-ch'ing, chi, David Walls-Kaufman, form practice, How To, interal power, internal power, Lincoln Park Tai Chi, Practice, push hands, qi, Tai Chi, Tai Chi Chuan, Universal Tai Chi Studio, Washington DC Tai Chi