From ancient China to our present day, Taijiquan has offered remarkable health benefits to millions of people throughout the world.

An elegant union of art and science, Taijiquan is a moving meditation combining calm mental concentration, coordinated breathing and slow, fluid body movement. Join instructors Joi Eden and Betty Sun as they embark on a step-by-step instructional journey through the Embrace the Moon form.

Start with basic principles and warm-up exercises, follow along as the form is presented from viewer-friendly angles, and begin to experience the well-being within your being.

• Reduce Stress
• Achieve peaceful spirit and calm mind
• Increase energy and strengthen the body
• Increase flexibility and coordination
• Balance emotions
• Build internal strength
• Prevent illness and heal faster
• Reduce pain and discomfort
• Retard the aging process
• Improve physical and mental performance
• Connect with your inner wisdom
• Integrate body, mind and spirit

The story line is somewhat interesting, but see it if you want to see an excellent example of Hsing-I and Baqua. (me!)

The One sets a martial arts milestone by pitting action star Jet Li against his greatest enemy: himself. This sci-fi thriller establishes a "multiverse" consisting of countless parallel universes, each populated by variants of every individual. Li plays a renegade from the Multiverse Agency, illegally traveling through "quantum tunnels" to eliminate all versions of himself until only two remain, each sharing the cumulative strength of their "parallel universe versions." This mumbo-jumbo inspires a variety of dazzling special effects, and director James Wong (with cowriter and fellow X-Files alumnus Glen Morgan) injects clever humor into the Matrix-derivative premise. Carla Gugino is wasted as the "good" Li's obligatory love interest, but The One will appeal to action fans with its fast-paced pursuit between the evil Li and two agents (Delroy Lindo, Jason Statham) assigned to stop his trans-universal killing spree. It's a one-gimmick movie, best enjoyed with your brain in neutral. (Jeff Shannon)

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Typical Chinese martial arts, but with some good examples of Taiji. Worth a look. (me!)

Jet Li teams up with Michelle Yeoh in this period martial-arts tale of revenge and retribution filmed in 1993. Directed by Yuen Woo Ping (who also directed Jackie Chan's popular Drunken Master and Yeoh's Wing Chun), Tai Chi Master matches over-the-top melodrama with fantastical fight scenes. Li and Chin Sui Hou play Junbao and Tienbao, two misfit monks who have been getting in trouble at their Shaolin temple since childhood. Tienbao's volatile temper and ego get them banished from the monastery, and the pair tries to make a new life for themselves in a nearby village. From here they take decidedly different paths. Tienbao joins the military regime of a ruthless eunuch ruler while Junbao joins a group of political rebels that includes Yeoh. Tienbao's violent quest for power erases his friendship with Junbao, his betrayal causing Junbao to go temporarily insane. During this period Junbao discovers tai chi, which prepares him for a final confrontation with Tienbao. Tai Chi Master's action scenes include a memorable matchup of Li and Chin against the entire monastery, where in the nonstop action Junbao escapes attack by riding one of his foes like a snowboard out of the fray. Yeoh's fight scenes include a complicated orchestration involving tables and chairs; her scenes are so impressive that it's a shame she wasn't given more screen time. (Shannon Gee)

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Need I say any more - Every one should own a copy. (me!)

Robert Clouse directs this 1973 action film starring Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, and Robert Wall.

The first American produced martial arts spectacular!

A martial arts expert is recruited to infiltrate a drug operation under the guise of taking part in an invitational competition sponsored by the drug operations one-handed crime boss.

TRIVIA: (1) CAMEOS: [Jackie Chan]: Briefly towards the end of the film in the big fight scene in the cave. Lee grabs his hair for a while before breaking his neck. [Sammo Hung]: Bruce Lee's sparring partner during the fight before the opening credits. (2) Production was halted twice. Once when the corpse of a young woman was found near the set. The other when Bruce Lee cut his foot badly when he kicked the bottles from Bob Wall's hands. (They didn't use sugar glass back then.) (3) Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong three weeks before the film's premiere in 1973.

GOOFS: CONTINUITY: (1) When Bruce Lee is discovered investigating the secret underground lair the trapped door is closed. But he had to open it to begin his descent. There is no way the door could be open with him on the rope. (2) When Bruce Lee first goes down the secret door in the garden, the rope he pulls of his bag is new. When he descends past the secret doors the rope magically has big knots tied in it. Also the length looks a bit long considering he has to tie the other end the gravestone. (3) When Roper (John Saxon) lifts Bolo's leg to bite it, a bloody bite mark is already visible on Bolo's pants.

REVEALING MISTAKES: When Bruce Lee is investigating the grounds, he has to jump into a tree to avoid being spotted. This jump was obviously filmed in reverse.

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