TaoBoxer wrote:relaxed as in bob marley? or relaxed as is morehi ueshiba?
Lewitt
Bhassler wrote:Internal training (relative to body mechanics and awareness) should meet all the needs of external training, if done properly. I do all sorts of things that require external types of strength (freerunning, cycling, Pilates, flying trapeze, etc.), and when I struggle with any of it, I look at it as a puzzle (how can I jump more explosively? how can I do a handstand more easily?) and then bring that puzzle back into my taiji/qigong training to find an answer. So far, it's worked great. I can try something new and suck at it, go away for two weeks to integrate it into my neijia, then come back and blow people away with the progress I've made.
When you get right down to it, internal and external are pretty much arbitrary distinctions-- all any of us have to work with is our whole self. I use so-called internal work to build the external, but I know lots of free runners (for instance) who use external to build some very internal qualities.
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