未有天地以前，太空無窮之中，渾然一氣，乃為無極。無極而太極。太極者，天地之根荄，萬物之原始也。太極拳者，一舉動，周身俱要輕靈，尤要貫串。氣宜鼓蕩，神宜內斂。無使有缺陷處，無使有凸凹處，無使有斷續處。其根在腳，發於腿，主宰于腰，形於手指。由腳而腿而腰，總須完整一氣。向前退後，乃能得機得勢。若有不得機得勢處，身便散亂。其病必於腰腿間求之。上下前後左右皆然。凡此皆是在意，不在外面而在內也。有上即有下，有前即有後，有左即有右，如意要向上即寓下意。若將物掀起而加以銼之之意。斯其根自斷，乃攘之速之而無疑。虛實宜分清楚。一處自有一處虛實，處處總此一虛實。周身節節貫串，無令絲毫間斷耳。（原注云：此係武當山張三丰老師遺論，欲天下豪傑延年益壽，不徒作武藝之末也）。 Before Heaven & Earth existed, within the inexhaustible Emptiness was the Undivided One Qi, known as Wuji. Wuji gave … Continue reading 孫氏太極拳參考資料: 武禹襄太極拳論/Sun Shi Taijiquan Can Kao Zi Liao: Wu Yuxiang Taijiquan Lun – Sun Style Taijiquan Reference Material: Wu Yuxiang’s Taijiquan Theory

十三總勢莫輕視，命意源頭在腰隙。 There is no one who looks contemptuously at the Thirteen General Patterns, the idea of command is located in … Continue reading 孫氏太極拳參考資料: 十三勢歌訣/Sun Shi Taijiquan Can Kao Zi Liao: Shisan Shi Gejue – Sun Style Taijiquan Reference Material: Thirteen Patterns Song Secret

掤捋擠按須認真，上下相隨人難進。 Peng, Lu, Ji, & An must be genuinely understood, when Upper & Lower Mutually Follow people find Entering difficult. … Continue reading 孫氏太極拳參考資料: 推手歌訣/Sun Shi Taijiquan Can Kao Zi Liao: Tui Shou Gejue – Sun Style Taijiquan Reference Material: Pushing Hands Song Secret

擎引鬆放四字 Raise, Draw, Relax, Release; Four Characters 擎開彼勁借彼力。中有靈字。 Lift & Open his Jin to Borrow his Li. This relates to … Continue reading 孫氏太極拳參考資料: 撒放密訣/Sun Shi Taijiquan Can Kao Zi Liao: Safang Mijue – Sun Style Taijiquan Reference Material: The Secret Trick to Releasing