Wudangpai. Tai Yi Xiao Yao Palm (Part 1)

Tai Yi Xiao Yao Palm: First Tai Yi is a common Taoist expression of the Great Spirit. This VCD demonstrates Taoist martial arts with all the flavors common to WuDang. Among these is a noteworth absence of power and periods, by periods we mean definitive movements showing specific focus points. This set seems almost a combination of Tai Chi and BaGua, or something like Liu He BaFa. It is fluid and yielding with applications for many moves simply instructed. Thus it lives up to its name meaning Xiao Yao of “Free and Unfettered Palms“. About Performer: Taoist President Xuande YOU, headmaster of Wudong Internal Boxing School, was birn ib Puzhou, Hebei Province. He began to learn martial arts at a very early young age. His teachers are all foremost wudong taoist. Tongshen Wang (a hermit in Wudang Temple), Zhu Chengde (a taosit headmaster), Wang Weishen (headmaster of Wudang Xongxi School), & Lu Ming Dao (a headmaster who lived over 100 years old). YOU has acquired almost all of Wudang ku