Earl Grey

Social skills are an extension of Taijiquan skills. You exchange fists for words and simply replace one battlefield for another. Bring the grace of Taijiquan or any internal art and you will flow effortlessly. Obviously still something I have a lot to work on to get there. Will share an Aikido story Nungali may enjoy later.

Yes, it’s not purely oxygen. Better to consult TCM doctors or other teachers here, or knowledgeable people like @Walker and @freeform.

It has been wrong advice here. It has nothing to do with oxygen.

They belong to each of my lineages, so they are all good considering how much martial skill, health, and power my teachers have that you will never know. The bad advice and practice to discard just so happens to be everything you say.

There are hundreds of variations of Baduanjin. I’ve learned four of them and the saying is Xiao Nian Da Tou: Small idea, big head. So no, there is not only one Baduanjin. Your self-certainty is as horrendous as your ignorance and yet goes hand in hand.

Not all variations of Baduanjin emphasize breathing.

Taken from the original thread at https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/50769-taiji-fights/: So here is where @Nungali and I are splitting off to discuss the above videos and what I originally posted that caught his attention.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/consider-possibility-trump-right-china/609493/ 180˚ with Trump.

I've seen this before. From a lot of FMA, I've encountered Illustrisimo and "Bahala Na" styles, Tabimina, and a few other names a I can't remember. The Filipino diaspora has people who don't normally interact with each other get together and led to some uniquely Fil-Am and Fil-Oz styles that fuse different styles together, as someone in the northern part of the archipelago would never know anything about how people fight in the southern part, and even within the same region, there are a ton of variations. One has you carrying the sticks or knives with the knife gripped like a sword and pointed upwards, the other hand gripped with the blade pointed downwards more for slashing. Another variation grips the sticks as though one were a walking cane in one hand and the other like a sword. Those are great for sowing confusion, and how they also extend their arms differently. ...Maybe I should finish some FMA training here for a couple years after Xin Yi before I get into Judo and Kyokushin. Hey, I think I've met some of these guys when I lived in the Bay Area! Also, I've done some variation when learning a kind of variation of Silat that had a lot of FMA in it and vice-versa, since there's a lot of overlap, especially for southern FMA styles due to having more interaction with traders in the Majapahit times who carried the local styles between modern day Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines.

Unfortunately, the quality will be there, but you can’t increase it because your body is limited to what it can absorb. Proper cultivation will prevent leakage, good health like some light cardio and strength training will improve vitality, so that you will have less leakage and more flow. Increasing capacity doesn’t happen overnight. You need the proper methods to do so. How old are you? You need to also understand that there’s lots of sensations of qi and that jing is a lot more than just semen ejaculate. You really should just consult Eric Isen or a TCM doctor at this point.

Another thing to add is that if you look at point 3 there, compare qigong exercise to gym time: do you gain more qi from going to the gym? Think about that. Then, consider if the food source you eat has quality qi. Instant ramen is not the same as an actual meal, just like McDonald’s burgers are not the same as organic grass-fed lamb.

Another analogy: qi is the money in your wallet, on hand to spend--either it is spent or it is wasted, and jing is your bank account. If you don't have a bank account, you won't be able to deposit and save it, and if you don't know how to increase your income or wallet size, you won't be able to carry more in your wallet at a time. We don't necessarily "waste" food by actions, and by the way, it is jing that is used up when masturbating. Food is but one source of gathering qi, but it's not that simple--some people might think it means eating good food will replenish what is lost after masturbation, but that is not true, one method is sleeping 24 hours (but you won't recover everything as you have limited reserves), and another to minimize loss are some techniques like one we use in Shuigong to build up jing. No. Not all qi sources are the same. Food is converted into qi, but there is also a loss of qi in converting the food into qi when digesting, which is why we have food coma. When you push and pull qi, for example, you're describing here moving qi rather than cultivating and gathering it. This is highly dependent on the system you practice. Just because you clear blockages does not mean you have developed the capacity to create and store jing. Most people develop jing from adequate rest, but to increase jing requires proper cultivation, such as the right kind of Zhan Zhuang, which I have done as many as five hours at a time, the right system of qigong (probably closer to neigong), and the right guidance.

Analogies to your conjecture and piss poor allegations. I dare you to try and espouse your nonsense about how qi and qigong work in actual TCM schools to qualified teachers of acupuncture, pharmacology, and qigong/taijiquan. You’ll get humiliated fast.

You gather qi just like you would get groceries. Eating a meal is qi, storing food in your fridge is jing, which can be converted to qi. I said yes to refer to both.

FraudDragon thinks to himself every time he posts: "I ignore qualified sources in favor of fueling the vehicle that will take me and anyone who listens to me as we drive straight off a cliff, and by the way, the earth is flat and climate change is caused by solar flares, and coronavirus didn't start in China."

So said the senile and deluded old fart whose fountain of knowledge comes from Baidu search engine results and absolutely no understanding of TCM or qi, and apparently, whose knowledge of Chinese history is completely bogus.

And because he's inevitably going to post nonsense or keep laughing, this is for you and people who randomly find this thread: Don't listen to FraudDragon, no matter what.

Be prepared to do both in case your pipeline gets blocked--you can still experience blockages. The reserves are there for a reason. Yes.

Don't listen to FraudDragon.

Ever had batteries and needed spare batteries in case the charge ran out? Ever wonder about the difference in upgrading hardware, say for example, an old Game Boy went from needing 4 AA batteries to the GameBoy Pocket needing only a couple AAA batteries? You're upgrading the hardware and making qi use more efficient. You ever try running your car on a low tank of gas versus a full tank of gas? Larger container. Would you rather shower with a 1L bottle of water or a large bucket, or a constant flowing shower?

On my list to do as I am always happy to travel and meet other members of the board to both learn from and teach! Besides, I have a few friends in Vila Cabamba, though most have left already, some moving here to Manila of all places!

Sigong Glenn would be very happy to have drinks with you and discuss this kind of thing all day since it's the same root technique that leads to dozens of variations. I've seen the Aikido technique you discuss before from the few times I've attempted to learn before either the instructors left or I moved. That movement in the video was Cloud Hands primarily. It's a great technique that is common in Taijiquan, and can lead to things like Ward Off, Repulse Monkey, Single Whip/Parting the Horse Mane--at a certain point, the movements in Yang 108 and the variation I learned, you can go out of order and transition from one move to any move since it doesn't have to be chronological. For example, if I did a move, say for example #33, I could easily flow next into #87 or #2 as I could into #34, and it would really just be a matter of knowing flow and transition, which is even more pronounced in the significantly longer Liuhebafa which is about 500 moves, but also a lot of repetition and variation. Sounds to me like chain punching, which from what I have seen and done with my old Wing Chun Sifu is usually done when the opponent is already in your control, pounding down into the head or the side after they've been trapped by footwork. Similarly, in Xingyi (not Xin Yi), this is also a lot like the Crushing/Wood Fist, a straight line and is what the style is known for that can cause people to fly if they develop enough peng and jin. That's the great kind of awareness that these styles have: you can let an opponent stick to their programmed script and basically troll them if they don't have intelligent muscle, flow, or awareness to deviate from their conditioning. Happy to trade techniques and grab some drinks sometime whenever I make it out there to visit my Bagua Sifu and my relatives in Sydney. I view learning martial arts like learning languages: you communicate with your body and then learn to get creative, turning martial combat into martial arts just like poetry in motion. The same can be said for dance and of course, the mating dance game men and women play with each other....Except that former example is totally affected by people losing touch with their bodies and others from our sedentary urban lifestyles since the latter half of the 20th century at least. Hey, we can discuss more of these any time; Sifus Eric and Glenn have more videos if you want. Interestingly, your local legend, Erl Montaigue, after passing, many of his students went to my Bagua Sifu, John Dolic, in Sydney. More of Glenn's work to start:

What is the point of eating good and drinking water if we're just going to get hungry and thirsty, then piss and shit it away? No. I'd question either how well you understand what they meant or how well they understand what they're doing or talking about. Longevity, strength, power, health, meditative states, for a start.

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