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Glossary
- Okinawan karate
- See Karate.
- Old Yang style
- Tai chi methods taught by the first and second generations of the Yang family, which clearly emphasized fighting applications.
- Open/close (kai/he)
- The Chinese yin/yang paired opposites concept of growing/shrinking, expanding/contracting, and lengthening/shortening, etc. This universal pulsing occurs at the subatomic level, cellular level, and cosmological level.
- Outer-dissolving process
- A basic Taoist chi (nei gung) practice for releasing blocked internal energy within the body and projecting it externally. Used primarily to heal and strengthen the energies related to the physical body.
