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Tai Chi’s Eight Forces £111

Tai Chi was originally known simply as the martial art of the Thirteen Dynamics — eight ways of using force (Pa Keng) combined with five directions of movement. Eight plus five is thirteen, and mastering that small set of possibilities is what lets a practitioner respond spontaneously and creatively, rather than relying on a fixed catalogue of techniques.

This course covers the eight core forces — both offensive and defensive — in a clear, practical format. Once you have them, you have the “engine” that drives everything else in the system: every other skill you build from here draws on these same eight forces, combined and recombined.

Master this small foundation properly, and the possibilities that open up from it are genuinely limitless.