Yeung wrote:There is a difference between quietness and static, holding a static position is contrary to the concept of continuity in Taijiquan. I have read somewhere that Wu Tunan said he and other students hold their postures while waiting for the teacher to come around to correct them.
Bao wrote:Yeung wrote:There is a difference between quietness and static, holding a static position is contrary to the concept of continuity in Taijiquan. I have read somewhere that Wu Tunan said he and other students hold their postures while waiting for the teacher to come around to correct them.
No, he advocated standing as a practice. You can read the the quote in the link above. He says that you move very slowly into a posture and, as he proposed, hold it for 6 breath, then slowly move to the next and stay for 6 breath. We stay several minutes in the same posture, letting the body completely rest in the posture before moving into the other. You don't need to move through the whole form, but regardless what, a session for this method takes a long time. It's a rewarding practice, but most Tai chi people don't even know about it.
Yeung wrote:I am kind of skeptical that Taijiquan practitioners need "to letting the body completely rest in the posture". Using as little as possible brute force to hold will not generate the springy effect in Taijiquan in any case.
suckinlhbf wrote:There is a lot going on within the body in Dingshi especially at the time the body get very tired.
And it is close to impossible to letting the body completely rest in the posture.
the body take command and really show you what it wants
Bob wrote:Wang peisheng - old issues of a defunct journal - talks about standing in 7 Star posture
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Appledog wrote:Hi, I just did an index of all my stuff to try and find a quote on standing and I just can't find it. Maybe someone here will know where to find it.
Does anyone have a source for the notion that you can just pick any "tai chi" posture for standing? I seem to remember quite a few sources for this but when I went to look I couldn't locate them.
It almost seems like this notion should be obvious so why can't I find a single source for it? I wonder.
Thxz
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