Bao wrote:Yeung wrote:I also came across an article published in the Shaolin and Taiji magazine in 2015 spoke of the short, long, total issuing of strength of Taijiquan, but I did not see any YIquan article on the subject.
Ok, thanks. Just wondering about exercises.
Trick wrote:Open’n close pulling and pushing is going on all the time during the exercises of YiQuan.
Opening and closing is everywhere, long frame as well as short frame styles. Long energy is not "open", it's about really getting the power/strength/energy out of the body and from the center of the body. Think you could describe it as to stretch from the core and out. If you only practice small compact movements, you might find that you restrict your movements. Some people who only do small er frames tend to restrict themselves and even becomes strict. Their movements can also lack a certain liveliness.
Tongbei like exercises there are....
So? What exercises? How much are those emphasised?
But the specific with YiQuan is building heightening awareness so to being able to act/react with superior timing, correct body conditioning comes along with it without specifically thinking about that...
You don't need to think about anything like "that". Why do believe that it's about "thinking"?
It's something practical. It's about your own ability to use your body well, and about your potential to move and make full use of your body movements whenever you need it. "Thinking" has nothing do do with it.
According to the founder Wang Xiangzhai, practitioners put their (non)focus on Xing, the exercises became just as gymnastics lacking relevance to combat...
Yes, Wang studied XY amongst other things. Wouldn't it be more likely that a practitioner could reach the same level as him if he or she practiced the same way and studied the same way that Wang did instead of just practicing in the way how he taught?
Tongbei-like exercises are mostly done as warmup loosening up..however Tongbeiquan
exercises do also contain its specific visualizations making direct relevance to combat.
Again visualizations while exercising in CMAs such as YiQuan, Xingyiquan, Tajiiquan and similar is of outmost importance, without that specific the exercises are merely forms of gymnastics lacking direct relevance to combat..
But gymnastics are fine, its good for ones overall health....
However doing exercises completely without thinking/mind activity/awareness even if it’s just for gymnastics sound not wise....
Big and small frame division is actually totally unnecessary, the experienced know there is no such thing as big or small frame, there’s only “all” frame. However If one have not experienced the small in the big, the big in the small this is not easily understood.
For an onlooker YiQuan methods may look small frame, and “unlively”, once again that because the onlooker don’t understand the method of the mind work going on when exercising.
The method is very active, there should be awareness at every single point of ones body, every single point listening.
For this to be possible proper relaxation is required there’s no stiffness build up. With proper mind work one will automatically get to the core of it.
Long and short energy. As I mentioned open and close I also mentioned pulling and pushing. Since you made a comment on open and close but not pull and push I’ll guess you are not familiar with that method. However it’s within the pull and push visualization long and short energy are exercised. I won’t try go into describing the specifics of the exercises here. The same method is also found in Xingyiquan as well as others. This method hold very important awareness practice directly tied to essential combat methods...
Actually the YiQuan methods are quite simple, but not as “the” simple most seem to perceive it to be. Its method hits the core of CMA quite directly, and does not take a long time of practice to gain significantly from.
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