Timothy 13 mins0

Tai Chi Tips

Various Tai Chi Training Tips 🙂

Taiji – Zheng Seng Fung

  • Feel centre affect to your hands or hands affect your centre?
  • Like a flower blooming
  • Hands like a whip because a whip power comes back
  • from spring point under to up body have to have light feeling from centre up and out
  • flow energy and keep guiding from spring point to hand non stop follow
  • how does gravity affect your hand going up and going down – each piece twist and open lightly
  • twist foot
  • don’t copy a move, follow philosophy to make move appear
  • practice one side, then other side then both
  • Tai Chi I and Buddhism I
    • Tai Chi I is different from Buddhism. Harmony I. Unlimited. But still temporary. An ego I has to die.
    • Buddhism Eternal True I, is spiritual awakened I, four eternal heart I. Want to develop see through all the ego I
  • But start with Tai Chi
  • Tai Chi helps us see through
    • over-act ego,
    • through harmony-ego.
    • Blindly act I
    • Totally relaxed use energy I
    • Finger detail flow out I
    • Incorrect angle I
    • But not see through any ego is ego 🙂
  • We use it to help us develop

See https://secrettruthoflife.com/2017/09/26/time-river/

Cloud hand 1

Procedure

No I

No tense

Feel the nature

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Silk worm line

1. Energy out each finger thin silk line sticky curving

2. Suck that energy back in twisting into the Dantien to create a net inside the body

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Steam hand

Aware the procedure

Remain aware by nature

No I

No tense

Curve energy up

Feel nature and then become that nature

Remember mistakes

Mine: balloon all the way to elbow guiding

Seanrat: don’t try so hard to be perfect

Belen: joy ego instead of moves create joy

Amy: not artificial slow

Simon: not mental

Monkey: don’t give yourself stress

JC: charge chakras 4,5,6,7

Gd: centre shaking

Red bull: 45 degree elbow guiding and keep head in line with sternum

Seanpig: don’t be overconfident

Jono: Keep procedure when fast

Horse: no monkey paw, stretch fingers

Sifu tips

  • Nose in line with Sternum
  • Feather light, if feel heavy in hand out of centre, never want to feel the weapon, just enough foot centre charge all the way energy out the tip
  • Melt into the music – sing inside / sing the music in your head
  • You don’t need to look at audience, audience is looking at you 🙂
  • Hit through a specific point, keep open the chest, no crash in – Hit a point and then flow through, have a stance, position head set up and then hit finish
  • Facial expression
Kick snappy like Shifu
Moving Meditation
 -start with memory you enjoy, something you enjoy, like being in the garden

Taiji Tips

opening hand gesture no weak wrist bend

Open with chest not shoulders

Single whip both arms end same time

Jump not extend BEFORE jump, jump extends the arm gravity

right arm more forward into setup pose

pheonix elbows and fingers stretch not throw power

What is perfect in Tai Chi?

Perfect means every part has to be perfect. If hand is not free to move and breathe then every part is not perfect.

If hand is unsure then of course everything will look not perfect.

 

  • 50% training is conditioning
  • Aware the foot – screw foot in – one finger distance / two for short leg
  • Don’t lean lower body forward – aware toes/heels Dan Tien distance create balance for straight centre
  • If elbow back, lift up from bottom, not pause and open hands
  • Aware the foot – wateman, airman potential rotation self Defence – but keep facing the correct way (connected laser line to Chest) in Bodhidharma move look right creates more free look
  • Relax for split second, then Squeeze /twist the foot, rotation Squeeze up the leg to bum and Dan Tien / move pelvic bone in and up
  • Alien breathing elbow open not full
  • Twist into dragon tail flow

Others

  • bum and heel straight line
  • low stomach in and up, rib cage should be furthest point, not belly 🙂
  • Shoulders don’t cross over – remain open
  • Don’t lift shoulders
  • Shoulder elbow wrist in line no tension
  • Stretching in
  • Turn in chi gong

New

– slimey feel not slimey look

– power in wrist bone point strong like attcking, curve the pwoer out finger joints and lightly to fingers – no high heels and no monkey paw…. tai chi sign rotation twisting from the elbow

  • lean back until you almost fall over – pull up the back of the head, shoot chest into the chin
  • more power bum, first chakra pull up, low stomach in and up, knees straight
  • sometimes slower moves harder to keep centre, in a flow don’t make a pose
  • keep elbow light no tension
  • shoulders light no tension
  • First flow to bird – dont go up – go from elbow back
  • When roll the arms back into kung fu pose elbows out not back – open and charge chest

Taiji

– never stop Centre line!

– slow 

Chi gong

– either absorbing or charging energy

– always laser line

TAIJI PHILOSOPHY

Unlimited positive view to look at life is changing – laugh

Energy to consciousness – aware calm

Taiji

– chi to energy master  light create space in joints

– energy master transform to consciousness 

1st level

Dragon breathe master / Chi master

From material training become chi master 

(Dragon breathe – Through Breathing absorbing charging create light feeling in joints)

2

4 Element Energy Control Master 

From chi create energy

3rd level

Brain wave Intention control master

Change all the energy become consciousness master

4th level

Abstract being emptiness master

Dragon empty meditation 

Control energy and space 

Empty dragon

練形化氣

練氣化精

練精化神

練神化虛

aware m

– finish move ready pose is cause next move

– go light without power stay centre

Harmony

– light and easy

Monkey form

Jump up

Tail 45

Foot first

Wild and control like Fushi form

Screw in

Chest up

Chinback 

Peaceful calm energy butterfly come to you

 

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Taiji session 17/12/15

– waterman – defend away and attack same time – curve

– full charge to fingers more than you think

– wrist pose energy front 

– hand arm follow foot step / otherwise it’s just dancing ?

– don’t think good or bad.. Do u remember the philosophy? Then practice. That’s it. 

 

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Taiji 20140306

– each pose hit reflects fingers – elbow fingers and wrist straight

– double tricky hit slight angle to explode from

-ready to attack not actual

– practice function

– ending pose elbow and wrist detail

 – first 10 run through catch detail

– flow no tension – curve elbow wrist fingers from foot

– footwork after hand position correct connects flow

– spine bones up not tense or squeeze muscles

– eyes horizon

Taiji lesson 20140227

Every pose structure strong but relaxed – elbows line, not pull power back and up – back relaxed

Always foot discipline. -right stance distance and weight lighter top

Always a curved look – knuckles!

Elbows move the hands

Feel weight in feet then up

Chest up lets arms u turn

 

Waterman tips

    • caress spider web feel future – don’t follow a future with a trap – create attcke and Defence… no break one second – then go with power from foot rotation to the future position… :always find a way to relax shoulders more
    • Relax trust no fear
    • Wuji knuckle rotation – rolling curving
    • Tricks of tricks – sensitive like shadow – rotation body include foot
    • Attack is best Defence
    • Feel direction of their attack to start rotation empty feel future and go to that future
    • Intention for health
    • Technique for opening all joints 
    • Do your best and accept mistakes are part of learning
    • Moving in harmony with everything means aware internal and external – aware of your body, their body all the space around you so they can’t get you – you can decide how to win them, in what way, what level – brutal or harmony style
    • Release their power, bring it back, attack from other angle. You hit water, water doesn’t care.

 

Timothy

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