High-level Chi Gong Practice

Intention/Principle: Joy, health, develop  philosophy

Function: remain harmony, reduce tension, stay light, develop strong centre energy line without tense, being sensitive, being aware every part of our body, develop intuition without thinking, get rid of psychiatry stress

Goal: moving meditation, aware of our body energy and consciousness into tai chi philosophy as one, natural being with art (light and sensitive) and strength of whole body energy flow, develop philosophy I and get rid of blind I awareness from fear and worry, reach to the point of no overact and remain in harmony and inner peace

Grading Score:

Standard
Expert
Master

1. Relax – reduce tension or never create tension
2. Energy flow – smooth, no stiffness from muscle tension involved
3. Foot position – every posture has professional foot position (angle, distance, strength %), foot position must appear before every other move
4. Posture – power from foot charge up to create steady force, straight centre, puma stomach, leopard sprinting bum, strong standing position from leg, proud chest balloon effect without tense, relax shoulder, every joint open, posture remain quiet and calm
5. Attack/Defence point – every move should have precise attack/defence point (which is between 30 to 40% of the whole movement)
6. Curve and U-Turn – tai chi movement is through 3D curve as tai chi sign, every u turn should be light and fast, never use wrist power itself but can flow energy to the wrist as attack. Eg. Stalk
7. Energy charge – from pose to pose at least 3 times energy charge (beginning of move, transition, each ending pose)
8. Facial expression and eyes expression – joyful without create psychiatry stress, free (comfortable to enjoy every movement of art) and concentrated without try hard, never staring at anything but aware of everything
9. Speed control – create rhythm. Use gravity to create speed without tense
10. Self – confidence. When you end the form with self-confidence and proud, show appreciation for sharing, don’t run away
11. Breathe control – dragon breathe from beginning to the end (even once form is finished, no panting)
12. Dragon Temper – create exciting feeling, change exciting chi into powerful and light movement in both fast and slow speed

If you can do these:
12 perfectly – Master
Pretty well – Expert
Barely make some good – Standard

All form must train well remember from heart (no thinking) during grading

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Chi gong grading on August 20th.

1. Create a subject as the main spirit eg Joy, Light, Calm or peaceful etc

2.Do not try to feel you are showing for others. You must enjoy that spirit for yourself and that joy will spread naturally.

3. Get rid of try hard and comparing heart, otherwise you will be lost in try hard stage of comparing and worrying about other people’s judgement.

4. Chose any music to create your own speed challenge to match the melody of your choice. That way you will enjoy the art of moving meditation affect with art of sound. Make sure your movement and music are united as 1 without any stress or hurry.

Practice with these 4 tips you will surely enjoy the grading 🙂 Sifu