As far as I can tell all of the legitimate sources of information say that the exercises we're already doing as part of our taijiquan are about all you can do to "nourish" and "cultivate" the fascia, if that's even possible.
Steve James wrote:As far as I can tell all of the legitimate sources of information say that the exercises we're already doing as part of our taijiquan are about all you can do to "nourish" and "cultivate" the fascia, if that's even possible.
Imo, it's certainly possible; it's even necessary. But, the point is whether identifying and focusing on the fascia helps in terms of performance. Clearly, more can be learned about the body. Otoh, the old masters didn't use the term; so, it's hard to argue that it's necessary. Yeah, one can argue that they didn't use the term, but they were talking about the same thing. OK, but translation wouldn't change the result.
However, I think it's obvious that focusing on specific fascia areas because of specific issue makes sense. If you complain of heel pain and the doc diagnoses Plantar fasciitis, then there are specific exercises that you can do. It'd be interesting to find out if cima practitioners suffer more or less from that common problem.
I am not against new stuff I love anything that is new
I am against people dressing up old stuff not doing it very well as putting a new set of clothes on it
Yeung wrote:Review of Evidence Suggesting That the Fascia Network Could Be the Anatomical Basis for Acupoints and Meridians in the Human Body
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2011/260510/
Probably just the new names of the exercises that makes exercises seem relatively new - "The Ninja principle (focus on effortless movement quality)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia_trainingwayne hansen wrote:Just show me one exercise that was not around before fascia became the magic word of the illusionist
middleway wrote:
The descriptions i personally use absolutely help the person in front of me, or i wouldn’t use them. Or maybe we should fall back onto the brilliant descriptive power of something like 'Move the Chi' or 'Muscle-Tendon Channel'.
What i find really bizarre is that some terms for certain things you have no problem with. Things like Ground Path or' muscle-tendon channels', 'sinew channels' are accepted.
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