Introduction

There was once a very famous Aikido player in Japan who spent
his whole life studying Usheba's legendary art. Although he had
dedicated his whole existence to this beautiful art he had never
actually had occasion to test it in a real life situation against a
determined attacker, someone intent on hurting him. Being a
moralistic kind of person he realised that it would be very bad
karma to actually go out and pick a fight just to test his art so he
was forced to wait until a suitable occasion presented itself.
Naively, he longed for the day when he was attacked so that he
could prove to himself that Aikido was powerful outside of the
controlled walls of the dojo.

Conclusion
I have covered in this book only a small part of one’s t’ai chi training.
Keep in mind that if the martial art is performed correctly, then
the healing art will also work. The main area of training in the internal
martial arts is the mind or rather ‘no mind. ‘ If you work with this
in mind you will most certainly gain. You may not become the
world’s greatest fighter or the world’s greatest healer, this is not important.
Even if you only ever gain one tenth of what T’ai chi has to
offer then you will be miles ahead from where you were before.
Your daily life will improve, as will your work place and your love
life etc. You will become a better per-son. If you are ever attacked
physically you will also know how to look after yourself with the
least amount of violence and we all of us can do with a little less of
that in our lives.
Don’t expect what you have learnt in this book to work miracles in
about one week. It takes ages for all that I have covered to become
sub-conscious. Host of all you need someone with whom to practice.
Preferably someone with whom you share your life, then this great
art will become a part of your family and your life.

This is how T’ai Chi works in the secret martial arts area and indeed
why it is called, ‘the supreme ultimate.
Every move you make in your T’ai Chi form is indicative of a very
dangerous dim-mak point strike. No matter how insignificant the
move, it means something! That is why the movements are there and
in the correct direction. We do not have to know the correct direction
or pressure because they are all there in our T’ai Chi forms, provided
of course that these forms have been learnt correctly and from a
competent teacher. For instance, the posture known as ‘Step Back
And Repulse Monkey’must be performed by the attacking palm in a
definite downward strike while the other palm comes slightly across
the body and down to the hip. This indicates that the palm on the hip
has attacked to important heart and lung points on the forearm while
the other attacking palm has attacked to a point called CV 17. This
ensures that the direction of the strike is going against the flow of energy
or Qi. Sometimes we just move one palm half an inch but this
too has a reason. This is to attack the flow of energy to other parts of
the body so that certain limbs will become weakened to a more devastating
kick or punch.
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This is how T’ai Chi works in the secret martial arts area and indeed
why it is called, ‘the supreme ultimate.
Every move you make in your T’ai Chi form is indicative of a very
dangerous dim-mak point strike. No matter how insignificant the
move, it means something! That is why the movements are there and
in the correct direction. We do not have to know the correct direction
or pressure because they are all there in our T’ai Chi forms, provided
of course that these forms have been learnt correctly and from a
competent teacher. For instance, the posture known as ‘Step Back
And Repulse Monkey’must be performed by the attacking palm in a
definite downward strike while the other palm comes slightly across
the body and down to the hip. This indicates that the palm on the hip
has attacked to important heart and lung points on the forearm while
the other attacking palm has attacked to a point called CV 17. This
ensures that the direction of the strike is going against the flow of energy
or Qi. Sometimes we just move one palm half an inch but this
too has a reason. This is to attack the flow of energy to other parts of
the body so that certain limbs will become weakened to a more devastating
kick or punch.
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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.