GrahamB wrote:Overlord wrote:GrahamB wrote:You might enjoy this, you might not, but I'm posting one video a week showing you how to do that secret Tai Chi stuff
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Graham,
Just a reminder if you don’t mind~
1, When you open or close, both hands should be synchronized with togetherness of whole body. No fidgeting after hands stopped.
2, When you turned, you head is lean forward bit, you use too much redundant power.
3, The speed of your hand should be synchronized with your waist turn.
4, I feel when you turn your left hand, energy is stagnating on your left shoulder.
5, Speed evenly.
6, Too much up and down movement.
7, There is too much rotational torsion on the knee joint, 不好~
I no Taiji guy, but I think proper teacher is advised. Cheers,
Over
How could you miss these?
8. The Octopus' tentacles were definitely misaligned.
9. The Cheetah's tail was 5 degrees off.
Ron Panunto wrote: Taiji without reverse breathing is like trying run an engine with no gas in the tank.
Again, the extreme posture of 1.47 is just for beginners to get the feeling. It's a progression.
Reverse breathing is a natural function of movement and will come naturally from correct body use.
“Can you explain how the abdominal extension in reverse breathing would differ from the same extension in natural belly breathing physiologically? Especially if we are focused on the "stretch of the connective tissue"
Here is a diagram from my material where i show the similarity. “
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For me reverse breathing is for something other than connection training as the desired effects can, IMO, also be achieved by normal belly breathing, but of course not all methodologies are the same.
So from what you’ve written, (and I may be misunderstanding this), you seem to treat ‘normal’ and ‘reverse’ breathing as essentially physiologically being the same thing in terms of the amount of stretch on the body they can generate, just in polar opposite sages of the breathing process?
You say: “the desired effects can, IMO, also be achieved by normal belly breathing”..
I would disagree with you here (but let’s not get into a fight about it), they are quantifiably different in terms of the amount, and power, of stretch that can be generated. (I agree that there is also something else going on with reverse breathing - particularly an increase in pressure that can be used in ways to increase the power of the human body - like Bao and his car - but here we’re just talking about the physiological effects on the body-stretch).
So ‘normal’ belly breathing can have some effect on the body-stretch, but ‘reverse’ breathing is much more powerful because physiologically it produces a much stronger pull inwards as you breathe in, which can be felt in the rest of the body if it is pre-stretched/conditioned. You simply can’t generate the same inwards pull in ‘normal’ breathing without making it artificial - by adding a level of tension to the process. I’ve just been experimenting with it and it feels to me like to do it in normal breathing you’d have to contract your abdomen severely as you breathe out - which is just not possible without adding an extra crunch to the movement (after the diaphragm has already returned because air has been expelled). And then there’s no “pull” on the rest of the body, because you’ve tensed he abdomen in isolation (cut the connection).
So, to return to my point my answer would be that: It’s the inhale and the pull in on the abdomen happening *together* that really gives you something to work with. You can do a similar thing with normal breathing but it is weaker on a physiological level.
At least, that’s what if feels like to me.
best,
Graham
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