amor wrote:Thanks for the links but I don't feel the examples help that much because those links show it from a mechanical context rather than human-body flesh, tendon, blood etc. sense.
But while I agree that 'qi creation' and 'helical gears' are important and very much part of taichi the terms just feel cliched in order to make us amazed somehow.
I think it would be better to actually describe whats going on under the hood rather than talk about those terms which are the end result of an extremely tough process of 'internal refinement'. This is for willie but you can add your own if you wish but what about the 'web-like' structure or stretchy feeling of the jing-luo that you encounter when you relax well almost to the point of being 'limp noodle like'. I had better clarify myself and state that 'limp noodle like' is not the be-all and end-all it's just a pre-requisite state of the body in order to go about causing the internal refinement to occur smoothly or however much you can get it to go smooth.
So how can we relate limp noodle like to helical gears and qi creation. I agree with what Steve Rowe mentioned some posts back as a high level explanation but you have to go low-level if you want to make a success of it imo.
Hi Amor. I trained in several styles of Tai Chi not just one. Everything from helical gears to the limp noodle stuff and a lot of theories. The limp noodle stuff is very interesting as it works excellent for escaping. It is also extremely easy to acquire so I would consider it a fast Road. But I'm not really sure if I would classify it as Tai Chi. The reason being is that it is more like 80% yin and 20% Yang. In my opinion Tai Chi should be 50% Yin and 50% yang then you will have a balanced dantian.
thanks