I heard internal kung fu styles helps the practitioner develope or increase vital energy. And that they can develope great striking power through internal energy, not thru the muscles power. It is said a great fitness is not very necessary in internal styles in order to be able to strike with power.
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I heard internal kung fu styles helps the practitioner develope or increase vital energy. And that they can develope great striking power through internal energy, not thru the muscles power. It is said a great fitness is not very necessary in internal styles in order to be able to strike with power.
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Tagged develope, energy, fitness, great fitness, internal energy, internal styles, kung, muscles, order, power, practitioner, striking power, thru, vital energy
I know a lady in her mid 50′s who would like to take up a martial art, but nothing too physical- she’s not the most mobile of people. Ideally I would like to bring her to tai chi, but there are no classes nearby. What other soft or internal styles are out there, so that I know what to search for?
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Focus on shaolin or the internal styles of kung fu?
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Ok, I have been doing some research into internal styles of kung fu, more than just Tai Chi/taiji….and I think I kind of know what the deal is with Tai Chi (you do the form, and if you are lucky you find someone who knows push hands and how to make the form useful)…
But, what about the other three or so…?
Like Bagua Zhang? And just what *is* the difference between Hsing I Ch’uan and I Ch’uan? And what on earth is this Lui He Ba Fa stuff….?
Any *positive* information on the subject would be nice. Yes, I know it isn’t hardcore, “Rickson by drive-by arm-bar while spooning a *bus*” and all that, ok? I get it that it isn’t “teh almighty UFC”, all right?
So can I just get some useful info and clear up some confusion please? In particular, I am wondering, since people practice Tai Chi on their own sometimes, how useful it would be to try that with the other internal styles? & with I Ch’uan in particular, what else do you need to know with it?
Thanks for your time!
Hello…I am liking these answers so far….and I am sorry if I caused any offense here, it’s just, you know, any more these days if you ask a question about a non-sport martial art, you draw the jiu-jitsu drones like they’re flies or something…and I didn’t want to have to deal with a dozen non-answers telling me “well judo/jiu-jitsu is more practical”, because well, I know that…and that wasn’t the Question I was asking, was it? 
But yeah, I am sorry if I came across as ranty or paranoid, I just did *not* want the trolls to be in my face and all….
Good stuff so far though, keep it up, I am digging the links here. Thanks! 
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