Pranaman

i have had strangers explain straight to my face, the feelings I was having, physical sensations, as well as physical sensations that occured during the original experience that caused the domino effect of negativity, and the original situation that happened to cause the feelings and sensations without me saying more than, "I have a hard time transitioning in social atmospheres". So what do you mean?

that's your teacher's husband? awesome article, i reread it frequently.

I appreciate the quote very much. thank you.

losing the ego does not require Jing reservation. Although true love is a love that doesn't turn into pain even if your mate cheats on you. Sex makes this a difficult feat, but possible, maybe even easy.

my experience is only with the health stance you mentioned, big step, and dragon stance. I've noticed that the big step is a far better grounding stance than the health stance, blood and qi quickly plummet down into the feet after getting out of posture. Big step and dragon stance also show you different, new, and unknown muscles to feel, which will sensitize you to qi flow in the given areas. In terms of qi, I believe the different postures focus on different meridian and energy lines. The last sentence is only speculation, but I believe it has merit. I'm interested in the relationship to the elements you mentioned, if you find out something please post it.

as far as MMA fighters being stronger and more built. They lift weights, to gain muscle weight. The mass only increases along with weight and volume. In IMA, the strength training is purely for muscle tone, mass(how much matter is in an object, or density), and increasing the density of muscles. Not much of a weight change occurs. the physics equation for force is Mass X Acceleration = Force. So generate speed, and mass, and you will have force. Adding weight to the equation will only decrease acceleration, and lessen the force. Another property of mass is inertia, the more mass, the more inertia. This is what causes pain when hit. Besides IMA being completely focused on training the only and core type of the strength needed for fighting, it also has an extensive repertoire of techniques to neutralize MMA tactics and turn the attacker into a defender in a split second. This is a good video explaining IMA applications that eliminate much MMA technique and tactic. Kung Fu & MMA not to mention the state of mind, it's just the bees knees of defense.

Does Yiquan max out at Fa Jing or do Yiquan masters utilize Fa Shen too? I don't ever plan on using Chi in that way to fight(so either way Yiquan resonates with me), I'm just curious. edit: I had to add the part about Yiquan resonating with me so that I didn't have a hundred people telling me that I'm jumping around switching practices too much just because I would like to learn and gain knowledge. Just something I noticed I did after I posted.

i'll remember that answer after I don't ask the question.

I bought Levitt's Taoist Astrology, it doesn't seem very thorough when it comes to the five elements, and the layout would lead a person to think that were going to stay the same throughout life, cause it never talks about the influences that are occuring in the sky as we speak, as well as tommorow. Any good books you know of?

The very back near-outside of my leg is really tight and cramps, my flabby gluteal muscles seem to cramp easily too. The really tight muscle is from the ischial tuberosity through the semi-tendinosus on the right hand side. The cramps occur sometimes in horse stance and big step stance. Any type of massage and/or stretch and/or acupressure that could help me loosen this thing up?

I am being taught standing. the stance never directly caused any pain, it was only when my body called for other muscles that it could start to cramp. Now horse stance doesn't ever cramp. so i'm just avoiding the big step stance for now.

well, when I feel the chi running through me smoothly, and my muscles are working together, my teacher notices and gives me approval. So it helps to be aware of the mystical crappola. but your point durkhrod was made when I said,"realizing this is not what yiquan is for. but a very integrated training." I love the practice of Dachengquan, it is gold. If I end up moving in like 6 months, i'll be too far away from my teacher. Hopefully I know more than the three postures I currently know by then, that way I can come back in a year when I can easily stand for hours.

Standing is all I do it home. twice a week I practice many kinds of yiquan drills and the Chen taiji form. Standing didn't cause the injury, i'm not sure what did. Yes, it makes it all the more worth it to go beyond the point that you've never been close to before. i've been standing for a month. I can only do the horse stance, with my knees at about 90 degrees, for ten minutes. and Big Step for ten each side. Health stance, I don't know how long, i'm definitley not tired at twenty minutes, i'll have to go for much longer and see. Thanks for every ones words.

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I think B.K. Frantzis is awesome. I really like his work, so far I'm only a little into The Power Of Internal Martial Arts. Do you think any devoted martial artist could waltz into China and find really high level masters as he did? Masters of Hsing-I, Pa Kua, Taiji, and nei gung/ chi kung. True taoist lineage holders? If not, i'll just learn from him someday.

yes, it deepens the understanding of the taijiquan practice to a level I never knew existed. Much deeper than it's qigong or nei gung characteristics. It will also inspire and encourage you ten fold just knowing the how intricate and amazing the art is, and a nother ten fold of encouragement will come from all of the other details of how it's helping you whatever stage you're in, and what you have to look forward to. The history and stories of his teachers are very interesting too.

realizing this is not what yiquan is for. but a very integrated training.

Standing is proving to have a good impact on me. I now partially understand it, and rooting. Most of my recognition of it has come from the effects of the rooting it invisibly creates, the sense of security. Most of the understanding has come from BK Frantzis' book Power Of Internal Martial Arts. Anyway I do: 10mins Horse 10mins left Big Step 10mins right Big Step 20mins Health a measly 1minute of Dragon Stance per side. soon the Chen form will be after this, and the Dragon Stance will be earlier in the set. Then their will be the drills learned in class. I'm adding up to thirty seconds a day per stance till hours and hours are do-able. What's the difference between San Ti and Zhan Zhuang and Yiquan's Standing? which is which?

10mins of "Big Step" then 10min on the other leg 10mins of this wide legged "Health Stance", probably called "Horse Stance" but I haven't heard Sifu name it. but with this hand posture: then one minute of "Dragon Stance": then another minute on the other leg My goal is to be able to do it for 4 hours within three years. We could all set our goals higher.

different dragon stance than my teacher teaches me. A quick search in google images showed about three different postures called Dragon Stance.

my gut says that NASA and any similar organization have the same intention and the same reasons to withhold information that could jeopardize the support of said organizations.

all in all, external or internal. Shaolin Kung-Fu being both. Doing the work will definitely help with all levels of being. Period.

I think you meant to say front foot. no intention to correct but just in case somebody tries the practice just from reading this thread.

your right. but maybe not on xingyi vs kung fu, xingyi is great with dealing with shaolin kungfu. i am a newbie and don't have an eye for skill. I guess i'm not the only one that would realistically know who would win the fight. Anyway, seems like it would be a worthy DVD if you weren't lazy. You couldn't just sit there and do neigong like a lazy ass or highly adept. You'd have to get past the shakes and heat that makes you feel accomplished in the end.

why do you invalidate a shaolin external martial artist because he has big muscles, and call him a pseudo monk with no information backing up your word what so ever? My teacher is trained in Baguazhang, Xingyi, Yiquan, Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu, and Chen/Yang Taijiquan. He most strongly believes in Yiquan. The qigong he teaches us is a lot like this. It looks like 90% of what is in the video is very rooting, probably other things too. This is considering he is usually in one of the standing postures, and also transitions from what I think I remember being horse stance to big step. Rooting is excellent, and will save you from a lot of problems and misdirection in life.