Lei Tai – fighting in the good old days / borbe v starih dobrih časih

Posredujem zanimiv članek s sarkastičnim naslovom o resničnih borbah, z zanimivimi ugotovitvami, zapisanimi na koncu članka. Poučno za praktikante notranjih in mehkih borilnih veščin. Sam večkrat pomislim, kako bi se obnesel v spodaj opisanih okoliščinah. Verjetno bi se držal prvega pravila vseh borilnih veščin: zbeži!     In October 1928 three Chinese generals, Zhang Zhi [...]

Kako tradicionalna je tradicionalna kitajska medicina? / Wie traditionell ist TCM wirklich?

Članek v nemščini (žal) govori o tem, da je izraz “tradicionalna kitajska medicina” (TKM) nastal šele v času Maove kulturne revolucije. A ne gre samo za nov izraz, temveč tudi za to, da so Maovi kulturni revolucionarji hkrati z novim poimenovanjem iz vede izločili religiozne in mistične elemente, ter s tem celotno vedo precej osiromašili. [...]

How to Practice Taichi for Substantial Improvements, by Chen Zhenglei

How to Practice Taichi for Substantial Improvements By Chen Zhenglei In recent years, on my tours in China and abroad, the question I was most asked by both Chinese and non-Chinese students is: How to practice taichi for substantial improvements? I will share my understanding in the next few points. I sincerely hope for comments [...]

Taiji in sladkorna bolezen

Prenašam članek v hrvaščini o zdravilnem vplivu taijija na sladkorno bolezen (hrv. dijabetes) in imunski sistem. Tudi pri hrvaškem članku gre za prevod in sicer iz neke ameriške revije, članek pa je napisal znani taiji navdušenec Erle Montaigue. Njegov sin ima pogosto delavnice v bližnjem Zagrebu. Tai Chi za dijabetičare Prije mnogo godina sam posredstvom [...]

Razmerje Taiji in daoizem / On Relation Between Taiji and Daoism

Sometimes mispronounced “tai-ch’i,” Taiji quan 太極拳 (T’ai-chi ch’üan) literally means “Supreme Ultimate Boxing.” Here Taiji 太極 (lit., “great ridgepole”) refers to yin-yang interaction, so that the modern Taiji diagram is the Yin-yang symbol. This diagram is sometimes used as a symbol for Chinese martial arts by martial artists and sometimes as a symbol for Daoism [...]

Henning: On Politically Correct Treatment of Myths in the Chinese Martial arts

by Stanley Henning There is a rising trend in the “Occidental” world of “Oriental” martial arts – the number of “scholars” who, in spite of making pretenses to upholding “academic standards”, are displaying no small amount of intellectual compromise by acting as apologists for the myths surroundingthe Chinese martial arts. They do this in a [...]

Standardi poučevanja taijiquana in qigonga v Avstriji

V Sloveniji ne premoremo skupnega verificiranja znanja in sposobnosti poučevanja taijija (in qigonga). Pri nas lahko veščino poučuje vsakdo, ki si je sposoben zagotoviti prostor in vadbenike. Kar pa ne pove nič o njegovi kvaliteti in sposobnosti predajanja znanja. Glede na razširjenost taijiquana in qigonga bi bilo v Sloveniji potrebno uvesti enoten sistem certificiranja znanja [...]

WCTAG Dao Camp Rogla 2008

Drugi teden v juliju sem na Rogli dopustoval prav v času, ko se je tam odvijal deseti Dao Camp nemške podružnice svetovne zveze družine Chen iz Chenjiagoua na Kitajskem. Celotno ime združenja je World Chen Taijiquan Association (WCTA), nemška podružnica ima na koncu kratice še ime države, Germany (WCTAG). WCTA in njeno nemško zvezo sta [...]

Članki o taijiju iz Yang tradicije / articles in english from Yang tradition

Članki so pisani v angleščini, tičejo pa se form, zgodovine, filozofije, borbenih aplikacij, uporabo pripomočkov in podobnega. Članki so pisani za začetniško raven, klikni tukaj.

COMPLEX AND HIDDEN BRAIN IN GUT MAKES STOMACHACHES AND BUTTERFLIES

By SANDRA BLAKESLEE New York Times, January 23, 1996 EVER wonder why people get “butterflies” in the stomach before going on stage? Or why an impending job interview can cause an attack of intestinal cramps? And why antidepressants targeted for the brain cause nausea or abdominal upset in millions of people who take such drugs? [...]

THE OTHER BRAIN ALSO DEALS WITH MANY WOES

By HARRIET BROWN New York Time, August 23, 2005 Two brains are better than one. At least that is the rationale for the close – sometimes too close – relationship between the human body’s two brains, the one at the top of the spinal cord and the hidden but powerful brain in the gut known [...]

Jou Tsung Hwa: BREATHING WITHOUT BREATHING

Dihanje-brez-dihanja je zelo napreden in težaven koncept in tehnika, ki se naslanja na daostični koncept delovanja-z-nedelovanjem. Na naši stopnji poznavanja in obvladovanja gre verjetno samo za informativno in zabavno branje. Kljub temu, spodaj je kratek povzetek, v priponki pa celotno kratko besedilo. Žal še v angleščini, razen če bo kdo imel voljo in čas za [...]

Stanley Henning: IGNORANCE, LEGEND AND TAIJIQUAN

As one who has floated on the periphery of the martial arts community since I studied Yang-style Taijiquan in Taiwan back in 1970, I relish this opportunity to come forward and “toss some bricks to entice some jade,” and I am particularly pleased that my “reappearance” can at last take place on the pages of [...]