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The Eight-fold Path
Reincarnation is blindness. The first form of Tai Chi teaches centre power and explosion power. Once learned, you can use light, sensitive moves. Even when light, joyful, sensitive, and abstract, Tai Chi still looks powerful. Without centre rotation power from your foot exploding in a light, sensitive and free way, you can’t join your whole…
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Zhang Sanfeng – Tai Ji
Zhang Sanfeng – Tai Ji Awareness To have a life means to be sensitive, to be aware of more. If you can’t be delicately and sensitively aware of your body, then you are not aware of life. If you don’t take awareness of your body as your main value, you are blind to the principal…
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Habits
Part One: Forbearance Sifu: There are some people who keep losing things: they are always looking for something but can’t find it. Where does this habit come from? Red Bull: Carelessness. Sifu: Where does that come from? Scott: Being too busy. Red Bull: From being too lazy to be precise. Sean Pig: They have a…
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Differences between Eastern and Western Martial Arts
Comparing Western Physical Training and Eastern Martial Arts 1. Westerners concentrate on building up their bodies and are more concerned with their appearance than their performance. If people were racing cars, Westerners would only be interested in the shell. Eastern martial arts are not about caring how big that shell is, but how aerodynamic and…
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Kung fu
The original idea of kung fu has nothing to do with the martial arts. “Kung” means the time devoted to working on something. “Fu” means a tough guy or an intelligent person. When put together, the phrase describes somebody who works hard at a task. Chinese people even use this to make jokes about their…