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There is an interesting phenomenon taking place in the world of internal martial arts. Western practitioners are starting to carry the art forms of theNei Jia(Internal family) into the fighting arena. Most of the pugilist’s are striking internal poses and then blending in Western boxing alongside their internal exponents. This MMA metamorphosed standard of the internal arts is a slap in the face to the originators that founded the forms and techniques based on deep combative knowledge. Thus these competitors think they are representing their cherished style but are actually representing MMA, and not the ChineseNei Jia Quan.

In the past, only the generational lineage holders of certain families had the inside knowledge, skill, and ability to use these arts to their fullest deadly-potential. Tai Chi Chuan is not called the“Grand Ultimate Fist”with out reason. Yang Lu Chan was known in China as “Yang the Unbeatable,”due to his reputation for beating ferocious fighters. Only the poor uneducated players of this art that fail in its execution are the one’s responsible for defacing its name. Regardless of the fact that most people that practice Tai Chi Chuan will never be able to live up to the martial side of the art, they still gain from the civil interactions and innumerable health benefits gained from daily practice.

The ingenious aspect of the creation of Yang style Tai Chi from Lu’Chan is the idea that the whole form is a combative-reaction from position to position through out the whole form. If you read Yang Cheng’Fu’s,The Essence and Applications of Tai Chi Chuan, you will come in contact with a deeper reality of this fact. The deeper secrets that I hope to divulge in this book, Yang Tai Chi Boxing Strategies, pertain to the Eight Gates and Five Steps of the Yang Family transmissions in addition to understanding the mathematic-geometrical components of the Circle and Square in relation to the fight cadence and strategies founded by Yang Lu’Chan.