The Eight Methods and Five Steps are: arrow-quiver, stroke, squeeze, press, pick, pounce, elbow, lean, forward, backward, left, right, and center.
Specific contents of the eight methods and five steps:
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2, left shed potential, right stroke potential, left squeeze potential, double press potential.
4, right shed, left stroke, right squeeze, double press.
5. Left picking posture, right holding posture, right elbow posture, left leaning posture.
6, the progress of the left and right shed potential.
7, step back left and right stroke.
8, the closing position.
The meaning of the eight methods and five steps:
Taiji (eight methods and five steps) is the State General Administration of Sports in order to better publicize, promote and popularize the sport of taijiquan, and to carry forward the excellent traditional culture of China in the spirit of scientific, standardized and simplified principles.
The Wushu Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports organized experts to create a simple and easy-to-learn taijiquan introductory routine, which is based on various types of taijiquan, and organizes and standardizes the technical contents of the eight methods and five steps of taijiquan, which are the core of taijiquan.
Evolution of the Eight Methods and Five Steps and the Benefits of Taiji:
Evolution of the Eight Methods and Five Steps:
The Eight Methods and Five Steps revolve around the Eight Strengths of Taijiquan: "embracing, stroking, squeezing, pressing, picking, holding, elbowing, and leaning," and the Eight Strengths of "advancing, retreating, guiding, hoping, and fixing," which are combined to create the Eight Steps. The eight methods of "embracing, stroking, squeezing, pressing, picking, holding, elbowing, leaning" are combined with the five steps of "advancing, retreating, guiding, hoping, and fixing", as well as the two forms of exercise, namely, standing stakes and marching, to form a set of Taijiquan popularization routines with culture, fitness, and simplicity.
It has simple movement structure, reasonable number, rich connotation, easy to learn and easy to practice, and it is another more simplified and ideal taijiquan introductory routine after the introduction of 24 Simplified Taijiquan.
Benefits of playing Taijiquan:
1. Positive Bones, Exercise Cardiopulmonary Function, Healthy Stomach and Intestines, and Nourish Brain
Playing Taijiquan has the effects of positive bones, exercising cardiopulmonary function, healthy stomach and intestines, and nourishing brain and sex. Taijiquan requires the posture to be neutral and impartial, and the bones of the whole body are in soft activity, which not only corrects the bad posture, but also exercises the cervical vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, and the musculoskeletal bones of the upper and lower limbs. It can also correct the shoulder slanting and hunching of young people.
2, exercise cardiorespiratory function
Taijiquan requires stretching movements, relaxation of the body, and conscious coordination of breathing and movements, which can increase the breathing effect, accelerate the circulation of blood and lymph, strengthen the nutrition of the heart muscle, and prevent all kinds of heart problems.