Wanderer
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Post by Wanderer on Sept 20, 2004 11:26:44 GMT -5
Standing practices are called Zhan Zhuang.
There are Wu Ji Zhuang, Huen Yuan Zhuang, San Ti Shi, Bear form (Xiong Xing) Zhuang.
A lot of teachers like to use single whip (Ma Bu Dan Bien) as a standing practice.
Because it practices the high horse riding stance, sinking the hip and sinking your Qi to Dan Tien, suspending your neck and Jin to Bai Hwei Xue on top your skull, relaxation of shoulder joints (Song Jian), sinking your elbows, hanging your wrists. Your arms are like a snake with a head and tail, on and on.
Do you practice Zhan Zhuang in your Tai Ji?
Why and how?
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Post by WuWei on Nov 25, 2004 15:19:37 GMT -5
Standing practices are called Zhan Zhuang. There are Wu Ji Zhuang, Huen Yuan Zhuang, San Ti Shi, Bear form (Xiong Xing) Zhuang. A lot of teachers like to use single whip (Ma Bu Dan Bien) as a standing practice. Because it practices the high horse riding stance, sinking the hip and sinking your Qi to Dan Tien, suspending your neck and Jin to Bai Hwei Xue on top your skull, relaxation of shoulder joints (Song Jian), sinking your elbows, hanging your wrists. Your arms are like a snake with a head and tail, on and on. Do you practice Zhan Zhuang in your Tai Ji? Why and how? I like to hold each posture for 20 breaths. I still can't get through the whole sequence without interruption. But nobody said gongfu was going to be easy.. When I was younger, I practiced some Tao Ahn Pai Qigong, and I have found that applying those principles to the Taiji Quan postures have greatly affected the "shape" of my practice, if you will. I heard a story once about Old Master Yang, Jien-Hou. It was said that when he would do his standing postures, he was able to slow down the drawing of his breath such that birds frequently perched on his arms. |
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Post by Wanderer on Nov 28, 2004 19:06:29 GMT -5
Standing in postures.
These are actually conditioning your body to a committed memory of the postures.
Usually, these postures are your basic fighting stances either the start or the end moves.
In Tai Ji, you develop a Peng Jin in your postures.
These are very important for your fighting moves.
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Post by WuWei on Nov 29, 2004 21:24:14 GMT -5
Standing in postures. These are actually conditioning your body to a committed memory of the postures. Usually, these postures are your basic fighting stances either the start or the end moves. In Tai Ji, you develop a Peng Jin in your postures. These are very important for your fighting moves. Hi Wanderer, I've been told that traditional practice was something on the order of 8 years, from zhan zhuan, to xing gong, to tui shou, to ta lu, to weapons forms. Was your training comparable to this? |
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Post by Wanderer on Nov 30, 2004 9:45:22 GMT -5
Zhan Zhuang and Qi Gong are practiced every day.
Depends on availability of the time.
These are the foundations of your Gong fu.
There are also moving Zhuang gong.
Such as a Ba Gua walk.
You keep the same posture pointing to the center, you then walk for 20 min and 1 h.
The longer you do this, the better you are.
The weapons I practice are long, short staff, broad sword (Dao) and straight sword (Jian).
In Nei Jia, the Gong methods without moving (Jin Gong) are as important as the moving methods (Dong Gong).
And to make everything work, we need to practice how to release the Jin the right way.
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