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Slappy McHappy
09-30-2002, 11:27 AM
I need to know about the internal styles of kung fu, and the internal martial arts in general. I know of tai chi chuan, pa kua chuan, aikido, and a few others. It would be of great help if you could give me other styles of internal martial arts, even if all you know are the names, it would be helpful. Thanks.

norther practitioner
09-30-2002, 11:41 AM
If you go to the internal forum...you'll prob. get some good descriptions too.

Xing Yi chuan
Bagua
yang, wu, chen, sun,......
tai chi

those are the 3 major chinese internal arts...
many others have internal aspects to them as well
such as any of the shaolin derived styles.

Former castleva
09-30-2002, 12:28 PM
Those must be the best known "neijia" internal CMA.
There are over a thousand of kung-fu styles around,so there must be a bunch of others,I could name various other arts but whether they are internal or external,I donīt know as some styles have both (example-hung gar)

Letīs say korean art of hapkido,it can be considered internal.

Leonidas
09-30-2002, 12:40 PM
Just dont get fooled into thinking that soft means internal.

Souljah
09-30-2002, 01:59 PM
xing i/hsing i,
ba gua (u know),
tai chi- yang, wu, sun, chen and daoist (directly descended from san chen feng).
Then theres liuhopafa, these are the 4 main internal arts.

Yes and like Leonidas said dont get soft/hard (kung) mixed with internal/external styles

[Censored]
09-30-2002, 04:11 PM
Better yet, don't get fooled into thinking internal means *anything*. :)

Leonidas
09-30-2002, 05:22 PM
The guy wants to practice Tai Chi....or whatever else.

Whats wrong with that???