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    Military & Police Tai Chi practice

    Wednesday, 23 March 2016
    Henan's Military Police Learn Chen Taijiquan




    China's official military police website recently highlighted the introduction of Chen Taijiquan into the training programme of its officers. The idea behind its introduction is to transmit traditional culture, improve officers physical constitutions and to enrich their cultural awareness and life style when they are not on operational duty. In the time-honoured Chinese way, the movement is encapsulated in a slogan: "Learn Taiji, strengthen the body and spirit, quieten the heart and nurture the body".



    To get the project up and running, Henan province's military police approached Henan's Chen Style Taijiquan Association and invited Zheng Dongxia to teach them Taijiquan. Zheng Dongxia is a disciple of Chenjiagou Taijiquan grandmaster Chen Zhenglei and daughter of Zheng Guorui one of his senior disciples from the early days. I visited Zheng Guorui's school in Wenxian back in 1997 when his daughter was about sixteen years old and already a competent coach, barking commands at the young students under her charge. Fast forward a couple of decades and it is now the military police being put through their paces.


    1997 visiting Zheng Guorui's Henan Wenxian Taiji Shaolin Wushu School.

    David Gaffney at 14:45
    quieten the heart?
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    Military Tai Chi practice

    I'm going to start a Military Tai Chi practice thread based on this, although I doubt it'll go as far as our Chinese Military Kung Fu thread.

    Watch: Chinese Soldier's Lesson For Indian Officer Gets 'A' On Twitter
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    In the short clip, widely shared on social media, an Indian soldier can be seen trying to learn some tai chi moves by a Chinese soldier.
    All India | Edited by Niharika Banerjee | Updated: December 28, 2018 18:22 IST


    A video of a Chinese soldier teaching tai chi to an Indian soldier is winning hearts on the internet.

    NEW DELHI: Indian and Chinese militaries are often not in the news for their bonhomie, especially since the Doklam standoff that happened last year between the two neighbours. However, a video of a Chinese soldier teaching tai chi to an Indian soldier is winning hearts on the internet.
    In the short clip, widely shared on social media, an Indian soldier can be seen trying to learn some tai chi moves by a Chinese soldier.

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    Tai chi is an ancient Chinese practice focused on flexibility and whole body coordination that promotes harmonised motion in space. Tai chi has been previously proved to be an effective exercise to improve balance control and flexibility in older individuals, suggesting its efficacy in preventing falls.

    Relations between India and China were severely hit by the 73-day face-off between the Indian and Chinese armies at the strategically sensitive Doklam tri-junction in the Sikkim sector last year.

    Ties between India and China have improved since then after a series of meetings between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping. Indian officials say there have been a number of positive developments like Beijing giving market access to Indian products, but much is yet to be done in issues like addressing the widening trade deficit.
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    Wow, that is so cool! A modern day Shaolin mural.... Does anyone know which style is practiced by the Chinese military?

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    Slightly OT

    This is police not military. Maybe I'll add that to the title if there's another. Or maybe set up a new thread for cops. Or maybe a new thread about Mental Health.

    But for now, it's here on Military Tai Chi practice.

    Craven County law enforcement turning to Tai Chi for good mental health
    by Daisha Jones and Jason O. Boyd Thursday, March 7th 2019



    The New Bern Police Department and Craven County Sheriffs office took part in Crisis Intervention Team Training, which allows them to implement different practices into their day-to-day job. Tai Chi was also part of the training. (Daisha Jones, NewsChannel 12 photo)

    NEW BERN, Craven County — Law enforcement is a stressful job for many reasons. Two agencies in Craven County are working to help relieve that stress.

    The New Bern Police Department and Craven County Sheriffs office took part in Crisis Intervention Team Training, which allows them to implement different practices into their day-to-day job. The agencies learned how to identify and effectively interact with people who have mental illness, intellectual or developmental disabilities and or addictions, basic meditation as well as verbal deescalation skills. The instructor did so by teaching them Tai Chi, a practice that aims to help them decompress after highly stressful situations.

    "It will definitely help out in the future so when we do have some of those stressful calls, we'll be able to take a couple minutes to ourselves and put some of those breathing techniques that we learned today to kind of get the body to calm down so you're not putting stress on your body," said New Bern Police Officer Jeremy Lunsford.
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    Tai Chi City Handan, China Special Police Force training YANG style Tai Chi 杨式太极拳



    I'm adding "police" to the title of this thread because it just says "military" now.
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