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  • Wow, thanks Stroud! I could definitely identify his first several movements as being from what I read in the manual, albeit very quickly :) I really struggle with ordinary meditation, I would do anything to procrastinate doing it and this feels like a breath of fresh air, even with my very limited grasp.
    http ://taijimax. com/chu-minyi-1937-taijiquan-video/

    Not much info but:

    "This Chu Minyi’s 1937 Taijiquan video is the oldest Taijiquan video on planet earth." ;)

    Also, segue:

    http ://www.youtube. com/watch?v=7Cz_nOpxgCU
    This is slightly modified, and certainly practiced faster than Tai Chi is known for (I'm not too familiar with the practicioner in this video, but "fast sets" are known as a somewhat advanced technique-- no doubt he learned it practicing slowly), but demonstrates the set fairly well.

    http: //www. youtube. com/watch?v=yDaV9C0ERP8

    (remove the spaces, the forums wouldn't let me post it as a real link)
    Okay, thanks for replying! Do you know if the sequence of the solo set is in the order they are presented in the manual?
    I'm looking through that book again to see if I can find what you're looking for, but I'm a slow reader. I feel it's in there, but I also read around the other texts on that blog to get a wider idea of the philosophy so it might be in one of those. I suggest reading around the set: read the introductions, the philosophical sections, the appendix. The taijiquan solo set is meditation, or exercise of the mind. The Way you perform the set is more important than the postures themselves (Taijiquan is Daoism! Read the Laozi, Zhuangzi, etc.!).

    Um,

    My learning style is to skim the surface of a thousand fields, dive into the few that feel particularly fruitful, and integrate the whole experience. My way of learning Taijiquan was to open myself to anything related to it and just "let it go in one ear and out the other": that's how I think of the sets and meditations I practice.
    Hey Stroud,

    I've been looking at the Taiji manual you linked to a while back. Does it include anywhere descriptions of how to move from stance to stance (it does on some of them but it doesn't seem to be the case for most of them), also it doesn't really say anything about the speed with which to move, which I assume is slowly?
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