What is Jiping Tai Chi Cudgel (Taiji Bang)?
Jiping Tai Chi Cudgel (Taiji Bang) is a traditional instrument for health care with quite long history. Jiping Tai Chi Cudgel is the best of this skill today. As a very prominent course in JTC (Jiping Taijiquan Courses), it offers four lessons such as Silk-reelling Work (Chan Si Gong), Internal Skill (Neigong), Fitness Knocking (Pai Da Gong), and a routine for group performance.
What are the uses and benefits of Jiping Tai Chi Cudgel?
Jiping Tai Chi Cudgel is very good for health care and preventing from aging, because it offers three kinds of exercises: the physical, the internal and the knocking, and it could assist to get calm in spirit, get in balance between the five Zang-organs, and also get more life-energy（qi）. Therefor Jiping Tai Chi Cudgel is a good one of the therapeutic functions of Tai Chi, and with the humanitarian spirit it has been interested and used by more and more practitioners of Tai Chi in China.
Something knowllege about the instrument
Here something knowllege about the instrument. It is more than 45 cm in length and 500-1000 grams in weight. For beginners a lither one is the first choice. And for the senior a heavier could be used. There is another kind of cudgel called as Taiji Ruler (Taiji Chi). It could be used just for doing the internal skill.
Instrument of the Jiping Tai Chi Cudgel Windling Skill
The Winding Skill (Chan Si Gong) is one of the four lessons of Tai Chi Cudgel. It is a physical training with four methods called as Jia, Ning, Fan, Heng, by teaching 12 basic forms. But the training with a wooden stick as a manipulating instrument in hand is much more effectual of the winding movements, which is the typical for Tai Chi. The training surely has a good therapeutic effect and offers many benefits for our health care.
The training also could strengthen the grip strength, and as well we can get competent with the complicated movements, and familiar with Chinese Yin-yang philosophical idea.
There are 12 forms for the physical training, and each of them should be done over and over time, that is the usage of the single-form exercise called as Dan Shi.
