Actual T’ai Chi Terms That Would Be Intriguing as Services Provided by a Geisha, Plus Two That I Made Up

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Classical Yang Style
Pushing Hands
Pull Backward Chin
Wu Dang Transmission
Golden Chicken Stands on One Leg
Pointing To Pubic Region
Repulse Thrusting Stance
Playing the Lute
Embrace Tiger and Carry Back to Mountain
The Shaolin Pole Technique

All the Women in the Village Pump the Well Frantically
Bronze Sparrow Bears a Crushing Weight

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