Learn Tai Chi Online with Jet Li's Online Academy - Lesson 16

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Jet Li's Taiji Zen Online Academy teaches Tai Chi Chuan with a unique principles based approach. It is well-suited for beginners learning Tai Chi as well as more advanced students.

After learning the four Kinetic Concepts of Level 1, you are ready to sequence them together into one flowing form. This form is called the Four Cardinal Energies form (Sì Zhèng Shǒu, or 四正手) because it is related to the four cardinal directions (North, South, East, West). 'Sì四' means four, 'Zhèng正' means straight, upright, primary or principal, and 'Shǒu手' means methods or techniques (or literally, hand), indicating the form is comprised of four primary movements along the four primary directions.