Advanced concepts in Tai Chi, Baguazhang, and Chinese Internal martial arts.
Discussing the Daoyin basics that create reverse rooting and other high-level skills.
Part of a series.
Advanced concepts in Tai Chi, Baguazhang, and Chinese Internal martial arts.
Discussing the Daoyin basics that create reverse rooting and other high-level skills.
Part of a series.
oragami_itto wrote:WTFBBQ The hits keep cominAdvanced concepts in Tai Chi, Baguazhang, and Chinese Internal martial arts.
Discussing the Daoyin basics that create reverse rooting and other high-level skills.
Part of a series.
oragami_itto wrote:I just want to know what "reverse rooting" is but he won't answer the question.
oragami_itto wrote:I just want to know what "reverse rooting" is but he won't answer the question.
Bao wrote:oragami_itto wrote:I just want to know what "reverse rooting" is but he won't answer the question.
Maybe you can ask Mark Rasmus?
oragami_itto wrote:Bao wrote:Maybe you can ask Mark Rasmus?
He never answered my email either. Harrumph.
Reverse rooting is what a lot of people are doing for their teachers
wayne hansen wrote:There is a lot of crap in this clip but there is also some truths
wayne hansen wrote:His take on dan tien is interesting
https://youtu.be/S1y_aeCYj9c
oragami_itto wrote:I just want to know what "reverse rooting" is but he won't answer the question.
Scott Park Phillips on January 08, 2018 wrote:Back to my list of Elements. Neigong is super important. It can be cultivated by itself. For instance, acrobats tend to have awesome Neigong skills. But to use them for fighting one must have both Counterbalance skills and Pure Jing. Otherwise the movement is too easy for the opponent to read. It will not work on its own. Also Neigong is key because it is totally incompatible with Neijin. Why? Because Neijin requires a positive root. Rooting will kill Neigong. To develop Neigong one must have reverse root.
All of the Elements mix like this. They need each other. I have worked with acrobats that had awesome counterbalance skills on the first day. But to use those for fighting one needs Pure Jing to create an illusion. (Although anyone with fighting skills will fight even better with counterbalance skills-- they just won't be "internal.")
Scott Park Phillips on October 28, 2009 wrote:The first level of practice is called "Icy Woman." At this level we develop a root so that when pushed the opponent's force is directed through our body down to the ground. As the Icy Woman's structure improves she is able to keep this rooted quality continuously during dynamic movement. If played as a game, both people will try to keep even pressure on their opponent's root. The moment the pressure is broken either partner can move to sever their opponent's root. The game can also be won root-to-root. In this case each person uses a blend of twisting, wrapping, expanding and condensing to improve the integration of their root. Root against root, the better root will win. . . .
The third level of practice is called "Steamy Woman." At this level her body becomes cloud-like. Empty and full at the same time. When the Steamy Woman meets ice or water in her opponents she simply floats them out of the way. Her mind is not on her body at all, but all around it at play with the elements of volume, momentum, and density. Inside a steam-like feeling moves around freely without regard to purpose or concept. Like a cloud, it has no agenda. Outside the game is played by the shifts and swirls of presence.
marvin8 wrote:oragami_itto wrote:I just want to know what "reverse rooting" is but he won't answer the question.
My guess is it has to do with dynamic rooting. Scott's writings on rooting.
Excerpt from "Four Elements of Pure Internal Martial Arts:"Scott Park Phillips on January 08, 2018 wrote:Back to my list of Elements. Neigong is super important. It can be cultivated by itself. For instance, acrobats tend to have awesome Neigong skills. But to use them for fighting one must have both Counterbalance skills and Pure Jing. Otherwise the movement is too easy for the opponent to read. It will not work on its own. Also Neigong is key because it is totally incompatible with Neijin. Why? Because Neijin requires a positive root. Rooting will kill Neigong. To develop Neigong one must have reverse root.
All of the Elements mix like this. They need each other. I have worked with acrobats that had awesome counterbalance skills on the first day. But to use those for fighting one needs Pure Jing to create an illusion. (Although anyone with fighting skills will fight even better with counterbalance skills-- they just won't be "internal.")
Excerpt from "Steamy Woman, Watery Woman, Icy Woman:"Scott Park Phillips on October 28, 2009 wrote:The first level of practice is called "Icy Woman." At this level we develop a root so that when pushed the opponent's force is directed through our body down to the ground. As the Icy Woman's structure improves she is able to keep this rooted quality continuously during dynamic movement. If played as a game, both people will try to keep even pressure on their opponent's root. The moment the pressure is broken either partner can move to sever their opponent's root. The game can also be won root-to-root. In this case each person uses a blend of twisting, wrapping, expanding and condensing to improve the integration of their root. Root against root, the better root will win. . . .
The third level of practice is called "Steamy Woman." At this level her body becomes cloud-like. Empty and full at the same time. When the Steamy Woman meets ice or water in her opponents she simply floats them out of the way. Her mind is not on her body at all, but all around it at play with the elements of volume, momentum, and density. Inside a steam-like feeling moves around freely without regard to purpose or concept. Like a cloud, it has no agenda. Outside the game is played by the shifts and swirls of presence.
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