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I think he's talking about soft techniques (nei gong - internal type techniques) and hard techniques (wei gong - more external techniques). For example, shotokan karate is generally considered hard whereas tai chi is considered soft.

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I've done both hard and soft training, but I generally train in hard style at the moment.

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Hard, but he do have some movements that might be considered soft. I think every style has at least a small amount of soft or hard wether they be considered hard or soft overall.

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I had a slightly different explanation for soft and hard arts. "Soft" arts were explained to me as arts that use open hands and not fists (Primarily). So, Tai Chi, a lot of Kung Fu, aikido would all be soft arts. Karate, TKD, SBD, TSD, etc would all be hard arts.

Every art should teach the internal qi (ki, chi, however you spell it) aspects, and again, some will emphasize it more than others.

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Hard , i don't think we have soft techniques in our style (No Yang here :lol: ).

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