Tai Chi more popular that Chi Kung

I think it is because Tai Chi doubles as a martial art; it capitalized off of the notoriety of Kung Fu in popular culture as being the “internal cousin” that is also good for your health. Even to this day, you see movies like “Man of Tai Chi”, “Tai Chi Hero”, etc.

Also, Tai Chi looks more “appealing” as a performance art. It has more of a tendency to gather crowds of people “to see what the person is doing”, and creates interest by people to “want to learn that”. Qigong (i.e. physical movement qigong), on the other hand, doesn’t have as much visual allure.

Qi,
Steven

Looking at so many seemingly different yet internally sound approaches to the martial arts drove me to realize that there must be be underlying factors that make all martial arts function. In short, every style, though different, must work from a similar set of principles. That single realization fully and irrevocably altered my approach to the martial arts-I stopped looking at martial arts in terms of techniques and styles, and started instead to examine the factors common to all styles.
-STEVEN J. PEARLMAN, The Book of Martial Power

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The mind is a well-built computer and it has various services. Auditors, backing off
from Latin and complexity, call the source of one of these services, the file clerk. This is not a very dignified name and it is certainly anthropomorphic. There is no small man or woman in there with a green eye-shade. But the action which takes place is a close approximation to what would happen if such an entity did dwell within the mind. The file clerk is the bank monitor. “He” monitors for both the reactive engram bank and the standard banks. When he is asked for a datum by the auditor or “I,” he will hand out a datum to the auditor via “I.” He is a trifle moronic when he handles the reactive engram bank, a contagion from the reactive mind, and he will at times hand out puns and crazy dreams when he should be delivering serious data. The file clerk, if the auditor asks the pre-clear for the last time he saw a movie, will
hand out the movie, the date it was seen, the age and physical being of the person, all perceptics, the plot of the movie, the weather — in short, he hands out everything that was present and connected with the movie. In ordinary living the file clerk feeds memory to “I” at a rapid rate. A good memory gets its data in split seconds. If the file clerk has to shove the memory around various reactive occlusions, it may take minutes or days for the data to arrive.
-L. RON HUBBARD, Dianetics-The Modern Science of Mental Health

Sorry my broken English.

Although there might be large amount of Taiji classes available, also in Finland, somebody might ask if these are good for any particular practical purpose.

So to make one’s Taiji effective martial art one would need to take that very long old road and practicing only softly is not good for keeping fit, in my opinion.

But here I was mainly after mental prowess like Pearlman particularly in martial arts and Hubbard in more or less every conceivable situation one might meet.

So again if M. Chia’s Tai Chi Chi Kung form (13 movement form?) itself might not be the most ideal one, the system otherwise is extremely rich and only perfecting certain aspects of mental timing is lacking for immediate purposes.

In my opinion.

HOWDY