Sprint wrote:Learn yi quan basics: zhan zhuang, sh li, mo ca bu, fa li, from a competent instructor. Take you about a year of 2/3 hours per day, then go learn the application to your own system.
mixjourneyman wrote:Internal strength is a huge huge subject. Even if pertaining to only one style.
Take baguazhang for instance: simple explanation of bagua internal strength training is that the power comes from the hips and the back. But it really goes much deeper than that. People often mistake being able to use their hips and back (and maybe dan tien) as the only places where they put strength. But the truth is that you have to learn how to make EVERY part of your body strong to create bagua's force.
You have to make your hands strong, your shoulders strong, your upper and lower back strong, your chest strong, your neck strong, your legs, feet, toes, everything.
There are specific ways of practicing every part of your body from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head. Then as some others have mentioned, you have to make your mind strong with intent. Any good martial art, internal or external, will have similar training to achieve these goals. After you can make your whole body strong, you have to go out and test it. Even if you are strong inside your body, if you never hit anyone, how can you expect to be able to use your force?
Ian wrote:A spin on an old question - how do you, the reader, create internal strength? How do you train it?
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