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title: Ba Duan Jin Qigong - Posing like an Archer
teacher: Tai Chi School
runtime: 2 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/ba-duan-jin-qigong-posing-like-an-archer-xc7hZPDy8WA
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Ba Duan Jin Qigong - Posing like an Archer

2 min with Tai Chi School. Standing and unsupported. Works for leg strength and balance. Assumes some practice behind you. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **Tai Chi School**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc7hZPDy8WA

- **Runtime**: 2 min (143 seconds, verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02)
- **Posture**: Standing and unsupported
- **Style**: Qigong — repeated breath-linked movements rather than a choreographed sequence
- **Trains**: leg strength, balance
- **Suits**: someone with a few months behind them, someone with an established practice
- **Intensity**: gentle, moderate
- **Phases it can fill**: Qigong
- **Teaching style**: talks you through each movement as you go
- **Spoken language**: English

Tai Chi places this class into a session automatically rather than asking you to choose it: https://tai-chi.app