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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:39:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Eight Enigmas of T'ai Chi Ch'uan - second half</title>
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DISCHARGE
The practice of discharge is probably the most misunderstood and incorrectly executed of any in the art of T’ai Chi Ch’uan. I mentioned that the one thing that we never do in the actual complete manifestation of T’ai Chi Ch’uan is push anyone. People’s simple inability to accept this fact, and the seductive similarity between this and T’ai Chi Ch’uan’s signature technique, makes for one of the most pernicious stumbling blocks in the entire art.
From the foregoing a few things...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:39:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Eight Enigmas of T'ai Chi Ch'uan - first half</title>
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In the study of T’ai Chi Ch’uan, there are numerous concepts that fall considerably outside the realm of normal experience. The fact that, for the great majority of students of the art, the real meaning behind most of them will retain the status of enigmas is testimony to the great poverty of knowledge rampant in today’s transmission of the skills of T’ai Chi Ch’uan, and to the danger that many of these concepts, and with them many of these skills, will come to be commonly defined in an...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>The Question of Uprightness</title>
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I approach this subject with feelings of great trepidation. I consider it to be the most important question in T'ai Chi Ch'uan today, because confusion concerning it, and wrong conclusions drawn as a result of this confusion, create a stumbling block to a deep understanding of the technique, and prevent entrance into its more advanced levels. But before I discuss the matter directly, I would like to comment upon my feelings, because they relate to another kind of misconception, and one that...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>WHAT'S GOOD ABOUT GRABBING</title>
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; In my article The Trouble With T’ui-shou I mentioned that one of the great stumbling blocks on the road to correct and productive t’ui-shou is the obsessive desire to duplicate the phenomenon of discharge, in reality a cooperative affair that takes decades to master, by simply perfecting the fine art of shoving people as hard and as suddenly as possible, and attempting a stab at this perfection just about as soon and as...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:39:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Discharge</title>
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DISCHARGE – ITS USE AND ABUSE
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Of all of the techniques and skills of T’ai Chi Ch’uan, probably the most misunderstood is that of discharge. Before we even begin to talk about it, we should make a semantic distinction, confusion over which is sometimes the source of useless argument. 
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The most tangible fruit of years of T’ai Chi practice is the eventual...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>The Shoveboat</title>
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&#160;[As you can see from the above date, this article was written exactly twenty...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>THE TROUBLE WITH T'UI-SHOU</title>
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I am rather known for my categorical condemnation of t’ui-shou tournaments, and to the whole notion of competitive t’ui-shou in the first place. Just to cast aside any aspersions that this be merely a case of sour grapes on my part, or that my concept of T’ai Chi Ch’uan is simply so unrealistic as to be in need of hiding its head, let me say that for over twenty years a rather middle level of my students, against my instructions and sincere...]]></description>
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         <title>On Exculsivity in Practice</title>
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In my previous article, I tried to outline the dangers associated with defining one’s practice, in an attempt to establish purity of style, by obsessive concentration upon one element or another of technique. In making these criticisms I might give the impression that I am a proponent of rampant dilettantism in one’s practice, an impression that I will now be at pains to correct.
To address this question we must first recognize two opposing tendencies in the martial arts today, each with...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>ON STYLE</title>
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ON STYLE
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; I am occasionally asked how many styles of T’ai Chi Ch’uan there are. I confess that I don’t know what to say, certain that any answer would be wrong by someone’s reckoning. I used to think there were the Chen, Wu, and Yang styles. Then I was told that the Sun style was fully qualified for the title. Then I heard there were actually two Wu styles. When I studied with Cheng Man-ch’ing, he was very explicit in stating...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>What is T'ai Chi Ch'uan?</title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
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