Maintaining central equilibrium at all times is a given.
Any form of leaning or over-commitment weakens your entire structure and diminishes power.
Central equilibrium ensures stability, root and strength.
If you sacrifice this in order to reach the target, you may find the strike or leverage to be lacking.
If your feet are too far away from your centre, you lose your vertical stability.
Tuesday
There are a few common combat ranges:
- Out of reach
- Kicking
- Punching
- Grappling
Each of these ranges offers certain dangers and opportunities, both for the attacker and the defender.
Recognising what an assailant can do at each range is important.
An attacker may be within reach, but their capacity to affect you may be limited by their understanding of what works at which range.
Recognising what an assailant can do at each range is important.
An attacker may be within reach, but their capacity to affect you may be limited by their understanding of what works at which range.
Wednesday
When you perform an application by thinking about the nature of the animal, rather than the posture, you find that the movement happens far more spontaneously.
You no longer plod through the movements. The application just emerges.
As the syllabus progresses you must cultivate 'sung', an advanced-level neigong.
Part of sung entails doing without doing, a tzu-jan quality of immediacy, whereby the outcome happens without any sense of feeling the body.
A student initially learns to coordinate the pattern.
Later, they focus upon the movement.
At sung level, the student just strikes. No thought, no feeling of anything. The strike lands without self consciousness.
You no longer plod through the movements. The application just emerges.
As the syllabus progresses you must cultivate 'sung', an advanced-level neigong.
Part of sung entails doing without doing, a tzu-jan quality of immediacy, whereby the outcome happens without any sense of feeling the body.
A student initially learns to coordinate the pattern.
Later, they focus upon the movement.
At sung level, the student just strikes. No thought, no feeling of anything. The strike lands without self consciousness.
Higher-level Instructors are less common in the UK.
To become a Tai Chi Expert the Instructor needs 15 years tai chi chuan study, 10 years teaching experience and 10,000 hours of tai chi practice.
They must possess extensive, versatile combat skills and more in-depth teaching skills.
To become a Tai Chi Expert the Instructor needs 15 years tai chi chuan study, 10 years teaching experience and 10,000 hours of tai chi practice.
They must possess extensive, versatile combat skills and more in-depth teaching skills.
Friday
Tuesday
Clearly, your end product is not supposed to look like a David Attenborough documentary.
The 5 animals aspect of shen serves to help you see the possible origin and purpose of the movements, in addition to unlocking many of the potential, hidden applications.
Eventually, you must internalise this knowledge and express it in application.
Certain movements are clearly emulating one kind of animal, whereas others may be one or another, relative to how you want to express the jing.
There is scope for interpretation.
The 5 animals aspect of shen serves to help you see the possible origin and purpose of the movements, in addition to unlocking many of the potential, hidden applications.
Eventually, you must internalise this knowledge and express it in application.
Certain movements are clearly emulating one kind of animal, whereas others may be one or another, relative to how you want to express the jing.
There is scope for interpretation.
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