LaoDan wrote:When someone attempts to “prove” that one cultural perspective is correct and another is wrong, then I just view it as being an exercise that misses the point that both approaches are attempts to explain realities that we do not really understand. Much more valuable to me are attempts to “bridge” the divides, rather than those that emphasize the gulf between them.
Appledog wrote:Qi
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It's impossible to do all of this without a guide, and the guide is itself the Qi. When you coordinate all of these things, it will be the flow of Qi in the body which begins to control the individual motions which come together to make the together-motion. A great example of this is in Charles' Tauber's video where he shows how various independent motions come together to make circular silk reeling.
There are about 500 muscles in the body, 40% of the body weight, and 80% of the muscles in the limbs. The basic characteristics of muscles are contraction and relaxation. Muscle contraction and relaxation are produced by the nervous system. Muscle contraction causes exercise, which is determined by the position of the muscle attached to the bone. The muscles around the joint can be contracted individually or in combination, and a variety of activities are the result of joint contraction of the muscles in various ways.
Therefore, I think that internal strength is a force, a muscle force, and internal strength can also be called "internal force." In the medical theory of the motherland, it is called "Yuanqi", "Inner Gas" and "Medium", commonly known as "Pneumatic Power".
The "inner strength" of Tai Chi Chuan cannot be confused with the general external strength. Besides its powerful commonality, it also has its personality, that is, universality, speciality, and its particularity is also its characteristic. .
The specific performance is as follows:
First of all, the "inner strength" of Tai Chi Chuan is a kind of "completion". That is to say, the inner strength of Tai Chi is integrated. It is the movement of the muscles of the whole body.
Its roots are on the feet, rising from the heels, dominated by the waist, shaped on the fingers, and sent to the back. The legs and the legs are integrated into one. So this force is extraordinary and huge.
Second, this internal strength is also flexible and explosive. It is in the midst of a thousand times, judging the situation, using it flexibly, grasping the dynamic changes of the other side, and grasping the opportunity that is beneficial to me (for example, in a double situation), which erupts instantaneously, and it has an unstoppable destructive power and lethality.
Finally, this internal strength is also concealed and penetrating.
This kind of internal strength is not like external strength. If you punch it out, it will make the other person's face swollen and swollen, which is what people can observe.
The inner strength of Tai Chi is hidden, with penetrating power, and the other side suffers. It is an internal injury, not a flesh wound. Sun Lutang said to his disciple Chen Jianhou: "The inner strength of Tai Chi is very large. The injured are often not exposed to skin and wounds, but the internal organs are seriously damaged."
Most of my teachers used a traditional Chinese perspective - qi this, qi that, qi the other thing. Very few of their students attained much. Most got lost focusing on the wrong things - their "qi". They didn't understand that "qi" was part of a conceptual framework, that it was the map and not the terrain, that "qi" happens as a consequence of correct, dedicated training, and was not an end in and of itself. Qi" is a concept that guides practice. It isn't the focus of the practice, or the goal of the practice. Chen Xiaowang, for example, although he teaches using a traditional "qi" framework, has stated that one does not need to believe in qi to acquire skill.
The inner strength of Tai Chi is released when it is hand-pushing or Sanshou. This kind of "power" can be divided into levels, some are divided into seven layers, and some are divided into nine layers. I think that it is simplified and divided into four stages.
The first stage, the initial stage. On this basis, on the basis of practicing the pile work, you can be skilled in the shelf, pose correctly, and look like a model, overcome your own rigid stiffness, and be light and free. If you practice boxing in order to cultivate your body and prolong your life, you can do this step.
The second stage, the intermediate stage. Can also be called the human door stage. At this stage, the speed of the shelf is from the beginning to the fast, but the strength is not clear, and has learned to push hands, initially understand. "The shelf knows your strength and pushes your hands to understand the strength of others." Understand your own hand strength, leg strength, waist strength, foot strength, gear strength, know shed, will, squeeze, press, mining, example, elbow, rely on eight strength.
When you push hands, you will "save yourself from people", use the smear, stickiness, strength, and strength, and expand and retreat with the movement of people, can not lose, not top, not resistant. I can listen to it. "Listening" is not the meaning of the human voice, but the meaning of listening.
Listening and examining, through the sense of touch, sight, and hearing, to perceive the size, length, speed, and strength of each other's strength, depending on Where to fight back, called "listening to the power." It can be used to change the strength, that is, after listening to the power, it can be digested, glued, connected, and then legalized. Can be strong, and then enter, soften the hair, simply let the people send out, make it lose weight or fall.
The third stage, the advanced stage. That is to say, Chen Jianhou said that "the ball spring, the gas is built in" stage. One stroke and one style can be flat, straight and round. As is well known, all geometric figures are composed of flat, straight, and round shapes. One stroke of Tai Chi is also composed of flat, straight and round. It conforms to a straight circle everywhere, not only has a beautiful appearance, but also conforms to the mechanics principle and has the best martial effect. "Virtual collar" is "straight", "with chest" is "circle" is the circle, "pull back" is straight.
Spiral movement in the horizontal plane, the shape is round, hand circle, elbow circle, shoulder circle, back circle, chest circle, round circle, round circle, knee round, full circle, stretch bone extraction, joint penetration; internal organs It also makes a slight rotation, massage, smooth meridian and circulatory system, the vitality is unimpeded, and the enthusiasm gathered in Dantian can reach all four limbs and eight sections.
At this time, the whole body is Tai Chi, like a ball spring, where is the place, where is the hair, the shot is a move, no need to consider whether it is a combination, reaching the high level of "fist no fist, no intention".
Just as Chen Xin said that his temperament is strong, and the muscles and veins of the whole body are all accompanied by the appearance of the outside. In the actual combat, he can skillfully use the skills such as falling, getting the law, and using "inch" The servant is outside the Zhang. What is the "inch"? The power of the hair within a foot is called the inch.
This kind of strength is unique to the inner boxing. The three described at the beginning of the article. The wonderful piece is a typical example of the use of the inch. The formation of the inch is not a day's work, it is difficult to form without hard work.
Recently, it has been proposed that "strength road" says: "gluten" is the feeling of power orientation caused by the unified coordination of muscles, that is, "gluten" is composed of muscle force, although it is not visible, it can be felt. If understood from the cell's point of view, these tendons are the result of an orderly arrangement of muscle cell charges, allowing nerve cells to control directed muscle contraction. To produce such a fine way of exercising muscles, it is impossible to achieve the results without proper and arduous training.
Therefore, the change in the internal structure of the human body is microscopic, is a change in the blood volume of the meridian, is a change in the charge of the cell, and is a change in the adjustment of muscle coordination. In the process, your muscle bonds, bones, joints, ligaments, etc. under the action of muscle force, there will be some invisible fine-tuning, although it can not be seen, but some phenomena can be felt.
Taijiquan can train the "fascia road" that can't be seen by the naked eye. This "strength road" spreads all over the body. The higher the kungfu, the more dense and dense the "strength road", the greater the internal strength (" Taijiquan internal strength and human bones and bones structural changes 》). Therefore, there is no scientific argument yet, just a hypothesis.
The fourth stage, the top stage. After practicing refined gas, practicing gasification, practicing the gods, and practicing the virtual, the whole body has a sense of current, and the outsiders touch the soft as the cotton has a sense of numbness. At this time, the internal power has reached a point of perfection.
Wang Zongyue clearly pointed out in the "Tai Chi Boxing" that the way to obtain the achievement of Taijiquan is "from the age of familiarity and comprehension, from understanding to the order and the gods." The top stage is the "God" stage.
cloudz wrote:Ok cool, I'm going to print this out and read it, seems as though you've put some thought into it.
Thanks for sharing, if i have anythings to add, or something constructive, or even some repulsion.. I'll let you know eh.
regards
Bao wrote:...I thought again about how useless this name “qi” is. You experience what you experience. There’s no need explaining a name through what you experience and no need to explain what you experience through this word. IMO. One person’s explanation is just as good as another one. Or rather equally useless.
.Looking at it I thought again about how useless this name “qi” is. You experience what you experience. There’s no need explaining a name through what you experience and no need to explain what you experience through this word. IMO. One person’s explanation is just as good as another one. Or rather equally useless.
"Qi" within the culture the word originated from is defined by feelings that those who experience have named. Indicating that they feel the same thing which is called "qi" .
"Qi" itself has yet to be explained as to what causes the feelings or the mechanisms that cause them.
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