・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・男性：梅田支部会員Joe.Y(Joe, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. )
T'ai Chi Ch'uan, taiji, taijiquan, or taikyokuken.
Nowadays, there are many different names for one of the worlds' oldest,
softest, and most difficult of martial arts.
Here in Osaka, Japan,
our school is dedicated to teaching a style of fighting brought to Japan in 1959
by the famous Hsing-I and Pa-kua master,
Wang Shu-chin, student of Zhang Zhaodong.
Wang was also nicknamed "Cheng Ming",
which can be translated as "moral and righteous understanding".
His successor as the grandmaster of the Chung-nan line,
and head of the Chinese Martial Arts Cheng-Ming Association International Headquarters
in Taiwan is Master Wang Fu Lai (no blood relation).
What is pretty well known about Master Wang is that he taught taiji,
(and later Hsing-I and Pa-kua) in Tokyo for significant periods of time.
What isn't as well known, however, is who in Japan he had taught.
His top disciple in Japan was Hidemine Jibiki.
Master Jibiki is the only Japanese native to receive the top level teachings from Master Wang.
He is the head of our school (his main school is in Tokyo) and he is the founder of
the Japan Chapter of the International Cheng-ming Kung fu Association, since 1980.
In Japan, he is also known as the founder of the AJSMAF (All Japan Soft-Style Martial Arts Federation).
Jibiki-sensei is also a master of the Japanese arts known as Daito-ryu Aiki Budo and Yagyu Shin Kage-ryu.
For more information about Master Jibiki, and the AJSMAF,
please check the main web site at http://www.taikyokuken.co.jp/english.html
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At the Osaka branch of the AJSMAF, the head teacher is Takahiro Sensaki.
He is a disciple of Master Jibiki with over 20 years of experience and practice.
This website is dedicated to his Osaka branch, and to the
hopes that people around the world will take an interest in taikyokuken.
Tai Chi Chuan can benefit everyone, whether it's for self-defense, relaxation,
or just for good health.
Personally, I have always been interested in the fighting and self-defense aspect of the martial arts.
My name is Joe, and I'm from the United States.
I have been studying with Sensaki-sensei for about 3 years.
Here at the Osaka school, I have learned Wang Shu-chin style tai chi,
Hsing-I, push hands, and self defense applications.
I studied Northern Long Fist Kung Fu in the U.S. for five years.
After coming to Japan, and discovering the AJSMAF, I have been more than satisfied
with my progress in self-defense.
What else can I say? This is a real martial art.
This is what movies have been made about.
The Osaka branch of the AJSMAF has been my university of internal and self-defense martial arts.
My teacher has been sincere, honest, and straightforward.
He has always been willing to answer my questions, and also show me, hands on,
why a fighting theory works, or not.
There are some people who are dedicated to hard styles like boxing or mixed martial arts.
For anyone who is serious about becoming a more competent fighter,
I can only suggest also studying a style such as this.
This is a high quality soft style,
and part of a high quality federation dedicated to preserving parts
of Chinese and Japanese culture, and moving forward with its' theories
for fighting and self-defense.
If one would study at a school such as this, in addition to, or instead of, another style,
I have no doubts that a serious boxer would find satisfaction beyond his or her wildest
dreams in terms of skill in fighting or self-defense.
As a summing up of the Osaka branch, and the AJSMAF as a whole, again,
I'm speechless
-- this chain of schools, and the fighting arts taught here, are praised and
valued around the world as authentic, and as "the real thing".
I have met with, and pushed hands with, Master Jibiki a couple of times each year.
His power, and his level of development in Tai Chi Chuan is incomprehensible.
His softness and flowing ki (ch'i, qi, or vital energy) are a force
to be reckoned with -- I am even too ignorant to describe it in words.
If you don't believe me then you'll have to come experience it for yourself.
Jibiki sensei and the disciples of the AJSMAF eagerly await the experience
to meet new people, from any country, and hope to spread the benefits
of this style of Hsing-I, Pa-kua, and taikyokuken, or if you will, Tai Chi Chuan.
The Osaka branch has felt like another home for me for the past three years.
My teacher and fellow students have been kind and accepting of me as a person from another country.
Members of the AJSMAF are civilized gentlemen (and ladies) of a higher class.
Although I don't speak enough Japanese, (luckily, Sensaki-sensei can speak English) I
have never felt excluded from the teachings, or from the other students of our school.
In fact, after studying here in Osaka,
the gung fu I worked so hard to understand in the U.S. finally started to "click".
After studying authentic Wang Shu-chin style of fighting here in Osaka,
I have hope, and a small glimmer, that perhaps someday I'll finally get "it".
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…直近の教室時間割（場所と時間）を確認できます。
…渋谷本部道場のＨＰです。
太極拳についても脚腰の筋肉も 非常に鍛えられるため、
長年悩んでいた冷え性もずっと改善されました。その他にも、二の腕
やウエスト が引き締められて大幅サイズダウンしたこと、風邪を引かなくなった
こと、 その他色々な効果が実際に出ており、飽き症の私が気づけば二年以上 続けていま
す。あまり体が強くない方、ハードな運動は苦手という方にも是非お すすめです。
共にこの効果を実感しましょう！
しかし太極拳の後半は、スランプの連続。覚えられなくて身体が思うように動いてくれません。落ち込むこともたびたび。1年近くかかってやっと流れをつかむことができました。
このような私が、なんとか99勢を終了することができたのは、ひとえに先生方や諸先輩方の優しさと根気強さのおかげでした。
そして、昨年の春には、昇段試験に挑戦し「初段」という、家族に自慢の宝物を手に入れることができました。
形意拳に入ってからは、武術の道を初体験しています。形を決めて、力を抜くこと。気を感じること。気を出すこと。気の鎧をまとうこと。奥の深さに気が遠くなりながら、毎回自分の頭の悪さに落ち込みつつ・・・・。
しかし、しかし身体は確実に健康優良児（？）に向かっています。冷え性・肩こりが治まり、足腰が強くなりました。更年期障害と言う言葉は殆ど無縁です。特に形意拳コースに入ってからは風邪もひかなくなりました。不思議に声が透るようになってもきました。お腹から声が出ているようです。
それから、もっと不思議なことに、生命線が長くなったのです。今は120歳ぐらいまで生きそうです。？？？？ 別
に長生きしたい訳ではありません。 気功治療で元気な92歳になる父親は、今もずっと毎日油絵の作品作りに励んでいます。その父親が、最近の私をみて「腹が座って来た」といいます。下腹は引っ込んできたのですが、少々のことでは動揺しなくなりました。
身体の力を抜くことが心の力も抜いて「無欲な生き方」に一歩だけ近づけているからかも知れません。でもこれは単に年の功なのかもしれません。
週2回来ると若返り、美しくなるという先生の言葉を信じて・・・ 健康でイキイキとした老後を自分らしく生きるために！！
先生をはじめ皆様よろしくお願いします。