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Frequently Asked QUESTIONS

If you have questions about our products, shipping , store site, information on our web site or more general questions about chi gung or Chinese internal martial arts. Contact us by phone or e-mail. Depending on your interests, there is a good chance that we can help you either to find an instructor or locate information that will help you make a more informed decision. We at least have some opinions about what not to do.

Questions on Wu Style Taijiquan

• Q: If Wu style really is a martial art, why is the central form a Slow Set? What about the Simplified Form?
• Q: If the Fast set is the original form of Wu style, why is the Slow Set the form that is taught first as the foundation of Wu Style T'ai Chi Ch'uan?
• Q: If Wu Style is derived from Yang Style, what about the Yang Fast Set?
• Q: What order should I learn the Wu style forms?
• Q: I have some questions about the form on your Lan Cai Hua video.
• Q: What is the mind intent of "making your back as well as others soft and the front hard" in Ma Lao Shi tui shou (Ma Yueh Liang's push hands)?
• Q: I would like to clarify something. Regarding stillness and motion,
• Q: About the Ma Yueh Liang video available elsewhere...

Questions on Jiang Rong Qiao's Nei Jia kungfu (Xing Yi Quan, Ba Gua Zhang, and Taijiquan)

• Q: Why this style Pa Kua and Hsing I instead of other styles?
• Q: You state in your article "Introduction to Xingyiquan or Hsing-I Chuan" that Hsing-I uses softness. How can this be?
• Q: Should I consider the mother eight palms as primarily a Qigong form that is practiced or should I look at it in terms of martial applications as well?

Questions on the general practice of internal kung fu and relationships between styles

• Q: Is there "secret knowledge" in Wu style T'ai Chi Ch'uan or Jiang Rong Qiao's Nei Jia kung fu?
• Q: What is your approach/philosophy to full-contact sparring in the internal arts? How do you ease your students into the combative phases of their training so that they experience the energy & aggrssion of a "real" confrontation?

 

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