Daoist Nourishing Taiji Quan

[Bob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auZ88fLoItQ

Published on Oct 12, 2013
Ling Chen, a disciple of GM Lu Zijian had studied with numerous Daoist Internal Cultivation and martial arts masters, then developed this unique set of Nourishing Taijiquan in 68 forms that adheres to the classical principles of Daoism and Taijiquan. Here M. Ling Chen is teaching students and then performs the whole set.

[yeniseri]

Thanks Bob!
The more I see stuff like this, the more I understand that the pre 1950s taijiquan had many neigong/yangshengogng principles that were part and parcel of practice. Now they have been segmented into their own 'system' I saw elements of Swimming Dragon' some xingyi and paquazhang like lowered body posture with silk reeling elements. Wang Yongquan's taijiquan is similar in the above regard.

[Bob]

Just kind of tripping over stuff today--no real intent other than "taking a look at what others do".

I don't think this was posted previously but not sure I could train this way but it seems to produce a reasonable body structure--I assume this would simply be a small sample of what they do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9TVQqZBPhw

Published on Jun 14, 2012


Best of Chinese Martial Arts, Internal Methods #1
Neigong forms from various traditional schools.

The "Best Of Chinese Martial Arts" series is one of a kind. It contains footage of many old masters, rare styles, rare forms, and exotic weapons. however it is in many ways a mixed bag, You will find amazing footage of highly skilled traditional masters shuffled in with "traditional" forms performed in the manner of modern wushu by young graduates of modern wushu academies. However the sheer number of awesome clips of old and rare forms done by veteran boxers more than makes up for those.

The "Best Of Chinese Martial Arts" series was put out to showcase traditional Chinese martial arts and contains footage of many rare styles and great masters.
The clips used come from two main sources. The first source is provincial and national martial arts competitions held in the late 80's and early 90's. The second source is footage from the national martial arts survey done in the early-mid 1980's. The survey was done to get an idea of the scope of Chinese martial and to compile a list of the surviving schools, along with their forms and specialties. The other main reason was that many old traditional masters had not passed on their skills to any students. In cases like that they hoped to at least preserve footage of the art before the master passed.