Ten Essential Principles of All Tai Chi

一、虚灵顶劲 – Keep your mind clear, and keep you neck and head going up naturally,

二、含胸塌腰 – keep you back and cheat bent, like bowl, when it turns,release more power and help to loose the body.

三、松腰养气- loose up the hips and prepare or reserved the qi or Dantian

四、分清虚实 – have control on solid or empty, for example empty feet, or weight shafting.

五、沉肩坠肘 – sing shoulder and drop elbow, to help you loose up your body,

六、以意行气 – use your thought to move the  qi, not the force

七、上下相随 – upbody and lower body or leg feets moving smoothly ,not broken moves.

八、内外相合

九、招势相连 – all move are connected, no broke moves,

十、动中求静 – inner pieces, claim yourself even in a ocean waves.

Mark Cheng

Mark was born in the late 1970s in Big Yellow Village, near Chen Village, one of the best-known places associated with traditional Tai Chi. Growing up in this environment gave him early exposure to Chinese martial arts, and he has now practiced Tai Chi and other traditional Chinese martial arts for more than 40 years, including extensive training in Baji Quan. Over the decades, Mark has traveled around the world to train, study, and attend seminars and classes with respected masters and senior practitioners. His martial arts journey has also taken him into competition, where he has earned multiple gold medals, as well as into judging, serving as a judge at numerous martial arts competitions. Mark’s writing combines more than four decades of hands-on training with lessons learned from seminars, personal exchanges and interviews with experienced practitioners, competition experience, and research into Chinese-language martial arts sources. His goal is to explain traditional Chinese martial arts from the perspective of someone who has practiced them for most of his life—not simply studied them from books.

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