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  • Glossary
    Gang rou hsiang chi (gang rou xiang ji)
    The ability of a tai chi practitioner to fuse hard and soft power together and to switch instantaneously between them.
    Goju karate
    A karate style that has strong Fukien province Southern Shaolin roots. It has both Okinawan and Japanese branches.
    Gung fu
    Also known as gong fu or kung fu. (1) A level of skill usually gained through long continuous effort in anything. (2) A generic term for all the Chinese martial arts. (3) Refers also to the Chinese external and external/internal arts as opposed to only the internal martial arts (“Do you do internal martial arts—tai chi, ba gua, hsing-i—or gung fu?”).