Tai Chi and Traditional Chinese Medicine have a long history together. Combat Tai Chi applies Traditional Chinese Medicine to the martial arts. In addition to their damaging effects,Tai Chi pressure point strikes are designed for strategic use in hand-to-hand combat situations.An attacker who is hit with a pressure point strike will be stopped mid-course and be forced to deal with the strike while the martial artist has the opportunity to land more and more devastating blows. Certain pressure point strikes make it hard for someone who is grabbing you to close their arms around you or else makes it so painful for them to do so that they are almost forced to let go.When you see people practicing Tai Chi, most likely they are practicing the basic forms of the discipline. These slow movements help Tai Chi martial artists develop the kind of movement and body quality necessary for the power of the discipline. Though it might not be apparent from watching, these movements are also designed with martial applications, specifically pressure point applications in mind.Pressure point strikes can be used for even more damaging purposes. Dim Mak translates into English
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