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 Zhandou Taijiquan Zhandou Taijiquan translated means Combat Effective Tai Ji Boxing. Taiji Boxing was made famous by the legendary creator Zhang Sang Feng, who trained as a young man in external martial arts before leaving it to become a Taoist and practice internal training and internal Taoist practices on Wu Dang Mountain ( Wu Dan Shan). He supposedly witnessed a fight between a snake and a crane and combined these concepts with Taoist internal practices to come up with Tai Ji Quan meaning Grand Ultimate Boxing. Zhandou Taijiquan training at CDIA© has 3 distinct levels of training. The first is learning the basics from which arise the advanced or so-called secret material you hear bandied about these days. One needs to learn how to walk before you learn how to run. This level sees the student learning Taoist Daoyin to open up and train the fascia of the body to learn to move independently as well as move as a coordinated whole. The second level sees the student taking the form and breaking it down into small segments looking at the concepts taught and working on them individually as well as working the form as a whole. This is where the student would start learning single push hands games to further their training in listening, neutralizing as well as applying force. The third level sees the student using the concepts learned in push hands games and their previous forms training to further their ability to neutralize and/or down an opponent using what they know. Combat Chin-na and Zhandou Shuai Jiao would be introduced at this level. Chin-na are ways to grapple/wrestle with an opponent and Shuai Jiao is a combination of grappling/wrestling and throwing.   |
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