Putting this together with my own knowledge of
acupuncture and that of many of the world’s leading authorities, I
have put together what I believe to be the original points from Chang
San-feng.
BASIC APPLICATIONS AND, SECRET APPLICATIONS.
Most people know about many of the basic applications from the
T’ai Chi forms. For instance many know that the postures from
‘double p’eng’ through to ‘pull back’ are to block an on-coming attack,
lock the wrist and pull the opponent downward. However,
there is a much more sinister application for this and all of the other
postures. For instance, when we go into ‘double p’eng’, we arc actually
striking to a dim-mak point in the neck called ‘stomach 9’. This
in itself is a death point and works medically by severely lowering
the blood pressure of the body by restricting heart activity through
the carotid sinus. When struck with the right amount of force and
more importantly, in the correct direction, we have heart stoppage.
Now, combine this with the next part of that posture, when we roll
the palms over and we continue. The left finger further attack to S.9
while the palm of the right hand attacks to a point known as ‘gall
bladder 14’. The gall bladder, when it is struck, or any of the major
G.B. points, medically also causes knock out to occur by causing the
heart to stop. Now, as the person is falling down we further attack to
a G.B. point on the side of the rib cage called G.B. 24!

This whole set is practiced on both sides. There should be minimal
time between the low block and the back-fist.
It is said of the single pounding palm in pa-kua that one should be
able to block anything that comes within range and immobilize it using
only one palm. The other palm is only used if necessary. The t’ai
chi low block is an excellent block used for heavy attacks by foot or
fist. Practice this method until you are able to reach a reasonable
speed with great power in the attacker’s attacks.
TAI CHI SECRETS
So you’ve been with your teacher for fifteen years and you’re now
asking, what comes next? You wait and wait and eventually, if
you’ve got any brain at all, you’ll be thinking that your instructor is
keeping things from you. And the answer is that he probably is! This
seems to be especially so when we are talking about the Chinese
Masters in China or Hong Kong etc. Sure many of these direct lineage
masters know the secret techniques but they’re not telling. And
when they do, it’s usually to one of their own family or a very close
Chinese student. There is more and when you learn about it, it’s a
real eye opener. Why do you suppose that T’ai Chi Ch’uan means
“The Supreme Ultimate Boxing?’ To discover the reason we must
go right back to when T’ai Chi was invented by Chang San-feng
around the beginning of the 13th century. Chang was a famous acupuncturist
and was already good at the harder Shaolin styles. But
still Chang was not sure that he had the best fighting system in
China. So he and two others, also acupuncturists set about the find
out what points on the human body would cause which reactions.
They knew that certain points would cause either damage or heal
from performing acupuncture. Without going into exactly how they
worked on the points, after some years the three finally worked out
what points and in what combinations, what direction and how hard
to strike would cause either death or immobilize an opponent. Then,
Chang became quite paranoid in that he did not want anyone else
other than his own, to have his discoveries. So he had to have a way
in which he could teach his own family and students without let-ting
anyone else find out what it was he was practicing. This form of
movement, which was really, a hidden set of movements, eventually
became known as T’ai Chi Ch’uan. But by the time that it was called
this, not many people knew why they were doing these movements!
The original meaning was lost and only the family members had the
good oil. Right up to our present day, this knowledge has only been
passed down to a few instructors. Chang Yiu-chun was one of my instructors
and Chang knew the dim-mak or death point striking of
T’ai Chi Ch’uan.

THE METHOD
Two players stand opposite each other, one the attacker, the other
the defender. The defender stands in a PA-KUA slightly side-on
stance using two No. 3 palms (fire). The palms are medium tense
with the rest of the arm and whole body relaxed. The palm should
not be so tense that the forearm is also greatly tensed and it should be
slightly concaved. The striking portions of the pa-kua palm for this
exercise are the harder mount areas starting from below the thumb
around the bottom of the palm and up to the knife-edge of the palm.
The defender’s left palm is placed near his own right elbow and is
only used as back up in the first part of the exercise.
The attacker strikes the defender with a right fist to the face while
the defender pounds that wrist over to his left with his right thumb
mount. Photo No. 218. Note that the palm does not turn, it just stays
there like a hammer. Now the attacker throws a left face punch to
which the defender answers by pounding it over to his right using
the knife-edge of his right palm. Photo No. 219. Next the attacker
throws a low right punch to the lower left rib area. The defender now
relaxes his both palms (in order to use a t’ai chi technique) and using
the harder area of his right forearm, blocks it over to his left with the
left palm on the top to trap the attacking arm, (or leg). Photo No.
220. Now instantly, the defender controls the attacker s right wrist
with his left palm while he uses back-fist to the face.