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Internet-based Lessons |
| Chen
Family style Tai Chi Chuan - beginners |
| Tools - Tai Chi
ruler - comments on origins |
| There is evidence
(a complete machine) of a complete two person lathe from Egypt c
1430 BCE. |
| There has been a
similar but smaller and less complete machine excavated in
Sumeria. As far |
| as I am aware,
there is no evidence that ancient Chinese or Indian craftspeople
used lathes. |
| But Stuart King,
an English expert on older technologies, is not alone in the
considered opinion |
| that the symmetry
of too many Chinese artifacts could not be achieved without
rotational force. |
| Leather and wood
preserve poorly, but perhaps in some as-yet unexcavated tomb at
Xian ... |
| Usually, with
Chinese sword (jian) handles the shape is NOT circular because
an oblong shape |
| helps you
understand where the cutting edges of the blades are. You wish
to avoid a flat hit. |
| Correct
orientation is even more important with a saber (dao) because it
has just one edge. |
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