When I started practise Tai Chi I had a lot of pains in my knee and my joints. I blogged about that here. Slowly most of the pain disappeared.

There are five major styles of tai chi chuan, each named after the Chinese family from which it originated:

* Chen style (??) of Chen Wangting (1580–1660)
* Yang style (??) of Yang Lu-ch’an (1799-1872)
* Wu or Wu/Hao style (??) of Wu Yu-hsiang (1812-1880)
* Wu style (??) of Wu Ch’uan-yu (1834–1902) and his son Wu Chien-ch’uan (1870-1942)
* Sun style (??) of Sun Lu-t’ang (1861–1932)

Facts about Tai Chi from Wikipedia:

Tai chi chuan (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: tàijíquán; Wade-Giles: t’ai4 chi2 ch’üan2) (literal translation “Supreme Ultimate Fist”) is an internal Chinese martial art often practiced for health reasons. It is also typically practiced for a variety of other personal reasons: its hard and soft martial art technique, demonstration competitions, and longevity. Consequently, a multitude of training forms exist, both traditional and modern, which correspond to those aims. Some of tai chi chuan’s training forms are well known to Westerners as the slow motion routines that groups of people practice together every morning in parks around the world, particularly in China.

Today, tai chi has spread worldwide. Most modern styles of tai chi trace their development to at least one of the five traditional schools: Chen, Yang, Wu/Hao, Wu and Sun.

Mostly people practise either the form of 48 moves or the shorter form with 24 moves.

Here is a picture with the 24-form.
Click on the thumbnail image and a larger image opens.

Here:
Tai Chi – Yang Simplified 24 Gracefully Performed

Here some films with 48-form:

Combined Taijiquan 48 Forms

Tai Chi 48 (Back)

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I have joined this lessons twice and it is very pedagogic and I love it. Although the movements are performed slowly I can feal I had practised.

The Stockholms Wushu Akademi was established in Sweden 19675 of Sifu Louis Linn 1975.

Da Sifu Linn is Chief instructor for Fukien Shaolin O Shin Chuen style and was a pupil to Master Lim Tsua.

Ackording to the homepage of Stocholms Wushu Akademi the style of O Shin Chuen has been practised in the family of Sifi Linn in many generations. The style is based on studies of five animals: dragon, tiger, crane, snake and panter.

Tai Chi 24-form

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Newly it was deciced that the Swedish Karate clubs will form an Federation of their own.

If you understand Swedish you can read more about it in the homepage of Swedish Budo & Martial Arts Federation.

The Karate Federation will start 1 January 2010.

Some facts about the Swedish Budo & Martial Arts Federation:

Swedish Budo and Martial Arts Federation is included in the Swedish Sports Confederation (Riksidrottsförbundet), and organises most East Asian martial arts since the beginning of the 1960s. Nowadays also non-Asian martial arts are included. An exception is judo, which formed its own federation in 1987; taekwondo did the same in 1997. There are also a number of martial arts that are not connected to a federation.
Currently there are eighteen different sports within the organisation.

The sports included are:

Aikido Japanese self-defence art
Bujinkan Japanese martial art
Capoeira Acrobatic art with Brazilian origin
Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) A group of martial arts from the Philippines
Glima Ancient Nordic wrestling
Iaido Japanese sword art
Jodo Japanese martial art using a stick
Ju-jutsu Japanese self-defence
Karate Japanese martial art
Kendo Japanese fencing
Kickboxing Modern martial art with American origin
Krav Maga Self defence with Israeli origin
Kyudo Japanese archery
Naginata Japanese art using a sword like weapon similar to the halberd
Shootfighting Modern art from Japan
Shorinjikempo Japanese martial art
Taido Japanese, acrobatic martial art
Wushu/kung-fu Chinese martial arts

I suppose the results will be shown here, at the webpage.

What is Kyudo?

Kyudo, which literally means The Way of the Bow, is considered by many to be the purest of all the martial ways. In the past, the Japanese bow was used for hunting, war, court ceremonies, games, and contests of skill. The original word for Japanese archery was kyujutsu (bow technique) which encompassed the skills and techniques of the warrior archer. Some of the ancient schools, known as ryu, survive today, along with the ancient ceremonies and games, but the days where the Japanese bow was used as a weapon are long past. Modern kyudo is practiced primarily as a method of physical, moral, and spiritual development.

No one knows exactly when the term kyudo came into being but it was not until the late nineteenth century when practice centered almost exclusively around individual practice that the term gained general acceptance. The essence of modern kyudo is said to be synonymous with the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty.

Here two films from teamcompetitions:

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He and his students showed some Shaolin forms and some basic techniques. Here Shi Yongting himself shows a form:

My friend posted about it here.

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Since I have been blogging quite a lot the last two years I have not been practising Martial Arts much at all. It is time to quite blogging and take up the important things again, the stuff that really last: the Martial Art practise.

I found some nice films from the Shaolin temple in Henan in YouTube.

In April 2002 Si Gung Henry Sue, six Masters and seven brown sashes were invited by the Shaolin Temple monks in the Henan Province (China), all this was organised within 4 weeks.
Si Gung Henry Sue’s Sifu who resides in Hong Kong was there to greet the entourage as Representatives of the Australian Dong gong Chow Gar Tong Long Kung Fu.

Upon arriving in the Honan Province – China, they were greeted by Shi De Yang – the headmaster of Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple, this is a great honour and a rare occasion.

Takao Momiyama, Japanese but he lives in Sweden since many, many years and is married with a Swedish woman and has two dauhters.
He has been in Japan and made his examinsations for 7 dan and Iaido and succeed.

Congratulations.

If you understand Swedish you can read more about in an interview in a Swedish newspaper.
There is also a film with Momiyama Sensei performing Iaido.

But I suppose he is not that happy about the Photo in the newspaper. He looks to stiff, all excellent Martial arts are relaxed and just tensed in the very short important moment.

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This video is one among the best film cuts with Martial Art you can find on the Internet.

Sure, in real Martial art, you becoma better than older.

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The art is similar to bōjutsu, and is strongly focused upon defense against the Japanese sword. The jō is a short staff, usually about 3 to 5 feet (0.9 to 1.5 m) long, about the average length of a walking stick.

However, the art was not used, as one might fancifully imagine, by travelers to ward off aggressive bandits or swordsmen. The martial art of jōdō was the province of professional warriors.

Jodo seitei kata

Tachiotoshi is the first kata of the series “Gohon no Midare”, created by Shimizu Sensei. This kata is performed by Vicente and Addo at the Sei Ryu Kai Gasshuku May ’06 lead by Nishioka Sensei.

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