chinwoo1956 wrote:It seems quite a common practice in Chinese Martial Arts, could you please discuss
This is Taiji Boxing’s opening posture, the shape you assume in preparation for movement. While standing stably, the head should be held erect, drawn in and pressed up, the gaze straight ahead. The chest is slightly hollowed and the back pulled up. There must be no leaning forward or back. The shoulders sink, the elbows slightly sit, and the hands hang with fingers forward and palms down. The waist and hips loosen, and the feet are shoulder width apart. Spirit is now consolidated within and energy is sinking to the elixir field. Let it happen naturally, for you cannot make it happen. I preserve my stillness to await the opponent’s movement. However, people typically are liable to neglect this posture, ignorant in particular that regardless of whatever technique is being practiced or applied, none of them can be disassociated from this one. I hope the reader or student will give it first priority and pay attention to it.
chinwoo1956 wrote:outline your styles teaching and training methods
chinwoo1956 wrote:what martial product, skill can you achieve form it practice.
GrahamB wrote:A lot of people say that you need to develop a dantien - i.e it's not something that exists without the effort of creating it. Which begs the question - can you sink the qi to something that doesn't exist yet?
yeniseri wrote:Forget about dantien (qihai ) sinking qi training methods.
If we follow the 10 esentials of taijiquan training, everything will take care of themselves, whether training martial, yangsheng or just playing the fool with tai chi chuan, showing off with qi stuff or otherwise.
2. Hold in the Chest and Slightly Round The Back
The phrase ‘hold in the chest’ means the chest is slightly reserved inward, which causes the chi to sink to the dantian. The chest must not be puffed out; if you do so then the chi is blocked in the chest region. The upper body becomes heavy and the lower body light, and it will become easy for the heels to float upward. ‘Slightly round the back’ makes the chi stick to the back. If you are able to hold in the chest then you will naturally be able to slightly round the back. If you can slightly round the back, then you will be able to emit strength from the spine, which others cannot oppose.
Bao wrote:Have no idea what people mean by having to develop a dantian before they can have one. I don't think they have any knowledge about the theory. Every single classical definition say that a certain point on the normal human body is meant by dantian. How could a physical area be missing? That you need to use it or activate it in a certain way is another thing. But they (there are three different Dantian) are still there and everyone has them.
Doc Stier wrote:GrahamB wrote:A lot of people say that you need to develop a dantien - i.e it's not something that exists without the effort of creating it. Which begs the question - can you sink the qi to something that doesn't exist yet?
Sure. Why not? It's no less improbable than believing that you can somehow transmit a disease you don't have to people who have already been vaccinated for it.
8. So, you’re vaccinated? First of all, a sincere, heart-felt thank you! But you may now ask, so why do I again need to wear a mask? We talked about disease, hospitalizations and death above, but what about infections themselves? The vaccines are now estimated to provide a 3-times reduction in infection. For reasons that I tried to make clear above, it isn’t surprising that the vaccine is less effective at preventing infection vs. preventing disease. We are indeed seeing detectable virus, at high levels, in asymptomatic, vaccinated persons when we test them prior to procedures, etc. We have a few that are mildly symptomatic, too.
While we now understand that the virus fades from the back of the throat pretty quickly in a vaccinated person, we also know that an infected, vaccinated person can transmit this very infectious virus to others for at least a couple of days. So, as before, you are being asked to wear a mask to primarily protect others.
We need you again to interrupt the transmission cycle of the virus, as you don’t know when you might be infectious. The vaccine alone cannot interrupt this cycle when there is a lot of virus in the community within unprotected persons.
GrahamB wrote:There are certainly plenty of older martial artists who can move a kind of ball of muscle or 'stuff' around their lower abdomen...
I'm not making a judgement on it either way.
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