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Glossary
- Jan (rang)
- Yielding. A technical term for one of the four stages of sticking energy in tai chi chuan.
- Jeng chi (zheng qi, cheng ch’i)
- Unifying chi. The one chi that unifies all the chi of the body, which the practice of all the Taoist internal arts, including ba gua chang, seeks to cultivate.
- Ji
- In the internal martial arts, any energy that presses or projects in a forward direction.
- Ji ben gung (ji ben gong, chi ben kung)
- The basic power training through which all the Chinese martial arts develop the type of power they specialize in.
- Jin (jing)
- Power.
- Jing luo
- Collateral meridians. The acupuncture meridians that horizontally wrap around the body and connect its vertical acupuncture lines.
- Jou (zhou, chou)
- Elbow stroke.
- Judo
- A Japanese external martial art based on wrestling, joint-locks, submission holds, and chokes. A descendant of the Chinese martial art of shuai jiao and the Japanese martial art of jujitsu. Judo has been an Olympic sport since the 1960s.
- Jujitsu
- The unarmed combat external martial art of the samurai during Japan's feudal period. Based primarily on throws, joint-locks, submission holds, and chokes, with punches, kicks, and strikes being secondary.
