Formosa Neijia

I planned a longer, more in-depth post than this today, but I’m felling really under the weather. So a short note will have to suffice.

In Japan, Chen Pan-ling’s taiji is called shuangbian taiji — meaning “double-sided” taijiquan. His books all list it in the materials that he taught. It’s last on the list under taichichuan.

I got a bit of clarification on what the shuangbian practice actually entails this week. It’s not a form or anything complex like that. The term simply refers to a series of eight actions from the 99 long form that are performed on both the left and right sides, and to the four corners.

So take brush knee, for example. You would stand in one spot and perform brush knee on the left side, for example,  then perform “carry tiger back to mountain” (baohu hui shan) and then do brush knee on the right. You would then turn and perform it on the 90 degree angle, and then turn around again for the last rep. These could obviously be done indefinitely.

Chen Yun-ching does a few reps of the practice in this clip.