Research

Kung Fu Wushu Norfolk Island was one of 15 associations created for the Oceania Kung Fu Wushu Federation.  

by Peter Payne(1) and Mardi A. Crane-Godreau(1,2,*) Frontiers in Psychiatry (July 2013)  Abstract This review focuses on Meditative Movement (MM) and its effects on anxiety, depression, and other affective states. MM is a term identifying forms of exercise that use movement in conjunction with meditative attention to body sensations, including proprioception, interoception, and kinesthesis. MM includes the […]

by Roger Jahnke, OMD, Linda Larkey, PhD, Carol Rogers, Jennifer Etnier, PhD, and Fang Lin American Journal of Health Promotion (July – August 2010)  Abstract Objective Research examining psychological and physiological benefits of Qigong and Tai Chi is growing rapidly. The many practices described as Qigong or Tai Chi have similar theoretical roots, proposed mechanisms of action and expected benefits. […]

by Guo-Bin Dai & An Lu  Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (published online 06 August 2019)  Abstract Wushu is widely misunderstood and its essentially combative nature is being challenged in public discussion. Understanding and recovering its essential nature has become a core issue. This paper first conducts a review of the history of the Chinese […]

by Gehao Zhang(Doctoral Thesis)  Abstract This thesis takes the primary contemporary icons of Chinese tradition –the popular practice of Tai Chi‐and subjects its career in both China and the West, to a series of critical interrogations focusing on three main moments; the invention and (re)imagination of tradition, the practice’s migration from China to the West, […]

by Brian Corless  The aim of this article is to let the Australian Tai Chi community know about the need for more people in Australia to become more physically active and to ask for your help with ideas and suggestions about getting more people involved in Tai Chi. In 2018 the United Nations World Health […]

Celebrity Studies Stevey Richards 11 April 2019 Abstract Mainland China’s rejection of various traditional institutions and the Maoist political doctrine in the period following Chairman Mao’s death in 1976 resulted in ideological disorientation. To address this, the Chinese government has begun to promote traditional martial arts as a practice and as a cultural object to […]

Sport in Society Yang Zhang, Jessica W. Chin, Shirley H.M. Reekie 22 December 2018 Abstract Within the Chinese national sport system, the government provides resources and funding to train athletes from a young age to become high-performance competitors. Though athletes are well supported to excel in their sport, during their years of intense physical training, […]

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction Aouaidjia Kamel, Bowen Liu, Ping Li & Bin Sheng 13 November 2018 Abstract In this article, we propose a Tai Chi training system based on pose estimation using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) called iTai-Chi. Our system aims to overcome the disadvantages of insufficient accurate feedback in traditional teaching methods such […]

The International Journal of the History of Sport Ling-Mei Ko, Meng-Chi Ting & Ping-Chao Lee 1 October 2018 Abstract In Taiwan, the historical development of traditional Chinese martial arts, or kuoshu and wushu as they are called today, has been quite diverse. This paper examines the development of Chinese martial arts from 1949 to 2017 […]