Baiyuan Laoxian wrote:Following on from the video on the dantian filling, here are two videos that I would like to share with you.
Baiyuan Laoxian wrote:Second, here are these as part of Wu Family Taiji (武) practice.
Does this happen to you as part of your practice? Is it voluntary? If so, how do you achieve this result?
dacheng wrote:As Zhai Weichuan from Wu family Taiji on the video above is my teacher, I would write a few words about it. He is not teaching it, and none of his students I know are able to do this the way he does. He doesn't describe it as a method, but as a side effect of advanced practice. However some people say, that when his teacher Yao Jizu practiced a form, sometimes similiar sounds could be heard.
I'm not sure about it, but my guess is that maybe the sound is produced not by bones, but rather by joints in a way similiar to cracking fingers - which is explained as implosions of "vaccuum bubbles" in the liquid inside joints. In this case it is only kind of hypothesis. Anyway, sometimes I notice this kind of sounds coming out of some of my joints - rather a series of several sounds from one joint - quite often during slow movement practice. I'm not able to cause it or controll counciously.
Summarizing, I don't really know
Baiyuan Laoxian wrote:dacheng wrote:As Zhai Weichuan from Wu family Taiji on the video above is my teacher, I would write a few words about it. He is not teaching it, and none of his students I know are able to do this the way he does. He doesn't describe it as a method, but as a side effect of advanced practice. However some people say, that when his teacher Yao Jizu practiced a form, sometimes similiar sounds could be heard.
I'm not sure about it, but my guess is that maybe the sound is produced not by bones, but rather by joints in a way similiar to cracking fingers - which is explained as implosions of "vaccuum bubbles" in the liquid inside joints. In this case it is only kind of hypothesis. Anyway, sometimes I notice this kind of sounds coming out of some of my joints - rather a series of several sounds from one joint - quite often during slow movement practice. I'm not able to cause it or controll counciously.
Summarizing, I don't really know
Same here, it happens to me without any intentions of doing it, but also when I want but only with external moves. It is just a milestone that shows that you have some joints that have been opened. The practice of Tongbei quan is especially effective for that matter.
Quigga wrote:IMO what's shown in OP is something very different than popping your knuckles or hips or knees.
I went through a phase where I could pop each and every joint in my body. Every single vertebrae and my jaws as well. But the sound was like cracking fingers. The popping also diminishes the more open, smooth and connected my body gets.
In OP vid it sounds like old, strong wood is creaking. Like a tree in a storm. Or maybe a old rustic barn.
I think the sound is produced by strong connective tissue / fascia rubbing against the bones - and not by the joints; as popping the joints can't explain such a continuous noise imo.
I only saw one other video of this skill over the years. It was called a very rare skill back then as well.
As for it's usefulness or effects, I have no idea.
Quigga wrote:I'm careful with criticism as a) I have no clue about what's shown, b) the gent in OPs vid is dacheng's teacher and dacheng is a respected user of this board.
On the topic of sounds:
The scariest ones have been in the pelvis, lumbar, sternum especially and initially the jaws.
The sternum ones only happened a handful of times then disappeared. It literally felt like something stretched to it's max and the big knot inside of the rope got popped in one loudly audible pop. Afterwards I felt extremely relaxed, felt something rushing / flowing through this area for 1-3 minutes or so, and my posture got adjusted.
When moving my head side to side to stretch the neck, I can create sort of like continuous breaking twig like sounds. This is just adhesions in the fascia getting loosened. I can do it over and over back to back.
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