Shaolin For Health, Tai Chi For Fighting

[shawnsegler]

I think a lot of smart people out there use it like that.

My first taiji teacher taught wing chun and taiji like that. He really related that both of them were inspired by the snake and the crane.

Best,

S

[chud]

from the shaolin (sil lum) I was taught:

nei gong
ba duan jin
yi jin jing
6 healing breaths
zhanzhuang

Are Ba Duan Jin and Zhan Zhuang "Shaolin"? If so, then I guess I do Shaolin.

[Fubo]

I was taught the same set of Ba Duan Jin 2 different ways, one set from my bagua teachers, and another from a My Jhong Law Hon teacher... The bagua teachers focused on one relaxation, breathing and extension throughout (amongst other things), the other teacher focused on the same things with moments of focused tension and breath holding at different points throughout.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

from the shaolin (sil lum) I was taught:

nei gong
ba duan jin
yi jin jing
6 healing breaths
zhanzhuang

Are Ba Duan Jin and Zhan Zhuang "Shaolin"? If so, then I guess I do Shaolin.

standing post exercise and 8 pieces of brocade have taoist foundations but are found in shaolin as are a great many other arts from many regions. Shaolin is old ass and has many a style come into it's gates and be taken care of, adapted, preserved, protected, reformed, redistributed and so on. They still do it today.

[Andy_S]

Darth:

Great footage of the old Di-tang guy...had never seen this trained traditionally, just the wushu version. The old master with the impressive set of lugs was damned good, even if he did cut out the jump cartwheels into ground splits. Thanks for posting.

I wonder if those who start in Taiji and then do something a bit harder have the opposite exp of Troy?

[Darth Rock&Roll]

This idea was also used to great effect by Jack Dempsey...

It also works extremely well with sword work and pole arms work and the like.

[Wanderingdragon]

Never gave it much thought, just kinda figured fitness is fitness, just knew that the soft stuff would never build muscle but always knew the muscle had to be loose to be useful. Oh well Yin within the Yang and Yang within the Yin, must be something natural.