Some people think there are all these big training secrets in these internal martial arts business…. And there are, for some schools. But mostly, you just need to practice correctly. Incorrect practice would not move you closer to the goals, but in fact hurt since they reinforce bad habits. So how we do know a [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Song and Yielding, Two Examples
Posted in Learning, tagged training, yielding on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Song 鬆
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Being Song (loosely: relax) is the first gate into the world of Tai Chi. 祝大彤 Zhu Datong, a student of the famous Yang Yuting and Wu Tunan, wrote in his book 太極內功解秘 “Tai Chi Nei Gong Secrets) that Song / Soft is the first stage, followed by 空 Empty, and then 無 Nothing. In this [...]
Some “gotchas” on learning
Posted in Learning, tagged blind skeptics, yielding on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another trap on “not learning the right way to yield” is that once a person has accumulated some skills, the person can see and feel his (*) (usually not as skilled) opponent’s weakness. So it’s easy for the person to “yield” and immediately gains the upper hand vis-a-vis his opponent. The problem then is that [...]
On Yielding
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged neutralizing, Qi, yielding on August 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yielding is one of the most important skills in Tai Chi. However, most people do not yield, they redirect. Worse some people are overly concern themselves with return attack, as they think that one must return the force to win. When you want to win, your mind is in a different space than yielding and [...]
The fascia/tendon/ligament system, or the Qi substrate
Posted in Qi, tagged connective tissues, fascia on August 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Flip through any human biology book and you should see that a human body is made up of different subsystems: the skin, the muscle, the skeletal, the blood circulation, the nervous system. If it is a medical book, it would even have the lymphatic system overlaid. What most books miss the most is the most [...]
Qi is as (a) Drum Resonating (Gu Dang)
Posted in Qi, tagged drum resonating, gu Dang, reverse breathing, tai chi books on August 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
One of the lines the Tai Chi Classics reads: Qi is as (a) Drum Resonating, Shen is as collected internally What is Drum Resonating (Gu Dang) ? Wu Kung Cho (*), in the Wu style seminal manual, the “Gold Book” (http://wustyle.com), as translated by Doug Woolidge says: Drum Resonating refers to the integrating of Jin [...]
Xie Shou De Demonstrations
Posted in demo, tagged an jin, fa jin, peng jin on August 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Xie Shoude apparently was a student of Wei ShuRen. He lives in Sydney and went to HK during 2000s and gave a number of lectures. His book “TaiJi Nei Gong Xin Fa” (Tai Chi Internal Manual) published by the Ming Pao newspaper empire went into the 3rd printing recently. In this clip, scroll to 1:20 [...]
