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    On 4/12/2024 at 8:24 AM, Maddie said:

    So yes I am a transgendered woman (assigned male at birth, now female).


    Hi Maddie

    I am always curious about your sexual desire after you had made the sex change. Do you have any sexual desire at all? If so, do you feel any different before when you were a male?

    Sorry, I have to bring this up to fulfill my curiosity!  

    Peace!

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    5 hours ago, lightminefire said:

    What's the definition of stronger? Dantian internal or jing physical strength?

    You should have the feeling that your grip is tighter than before by holding your fist. You are able to handle more weights than before. You are able to perform much longer than before with your playmate. Traditional description is that you have increased your internal strength, AKA neigong.

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    39 minutes ago, lightminefire said:

    I usually feel heat but this time I felt blissful/mini orgasmic sensation when practicing dantian even when I'm chilling with mindful breathing. This sensation occur only on inhaled.

    This kind of practice will enhance your libido. You had done good and reached the realm of Taiji/Qigong. I have the same experience with the dragonic sensation most of the time. :rolleyes:

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    On 11/7/2024 at 1:11 PM, Thrice Daily said:

    I’m thinking these must be standardised these 8 and 5 is that correct?


    These two practices are high level of practice. The prerequisite for the ć…« 拁, the eight explosive forces, is to practice the basic movement of any style of Taiji to develop the jing(拁) in the body. ć…« 拁 (the eight explosive forces) cannot be performed without doing Taiji practice properly(with proper breathing) for a long period like three years and up. 

    Same with the five-step form. It requires strong legs to be standing on one foot for body stability. It doesn't have to practice Taiji, practice Zhan Zhuang will do and help to make the legs stronger.

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    1 hour ago, Samoobramba said:

    If anybody knows realy Cheng Man Ching Taijiquan evolution would knot that he developed his Taijiquan to be close as possible to the Taijiquan classics. Chen style is not the pure Taijiquan but is mixed with Pao Chui (Shaolin).


    FYI From his autobiography, Cheng Man Ching learned from a Yang Taiji master. It was because he cured the illness of his master's mother. Therefore, the master taught him the Yang Style Taiji. However, after he learned the principles of Taiji, then he developed his own style and put it under his name.

    IMO, I don't think the Chen style Taiji had any outside influence. It is a sole Chen Style family Taiji. The practice involves Fali(ç™ŒćŠ›) at the same time that none of the other styles do.

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    A word about the character æ‹ł, 👊 fist.

    When it was compounds with ć€Șæžæ‹ł, Taijiquan。It doesn't mean Taiji boxing. Taiji may do a straight punch but never a hook punch like real boxing does.   It should be understood as Taiji method, style or form.

     

    äș”æ­„æ‹ł is the Five step method, style or form.

     

    In the other hand, the Japanese like to use 道 for method, style, or form. For example, Judo(柔道)Aikido(ćˆæ°”é“).

    Bruce Lee's style Jeet Kune Do(æˆȘæ‹łé“, JiĂ© quĂĄn dĂ o).

     

    PS The initial name was Taiji Shen Gong, ć€Șæ„”ç„žćŠŸ, for Taijiquan.

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    On 11/2/2024 at 3:39 AM, Samoobramba said:

    Wing Chun has a simmilar aproach as Tai Chi. However Tai Chi is much more soft and use yielding more deeply. However there are many similarities, and there are many people who practice both.

    You had made me to wonder about that. I do agree that Tai Chi is much more soft and use yielding more deeply. However, I don't see there are any similarities. For being a Taiji practitioner, I wouldn't practice Wing Chun at all. Somehow, Bruce Lee gave up Taiji for Wing Chun.

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    On 8/13/2023 at 12:51 AM, galen_burnett said:

    §4. Furthermore, I began to hit a wall towards the end of my time with those arts. I was beginning to realise that in order to learn how to manipulate a person’s weight one needed to practise with the tension both on and off:

     

    there needed to be a switch that could put both persons into either a resistive active fighting-state, in which the centre-of-gravity is difficult to find, or a passive docile state in which it was easy to find.


    The centre-of-gravity of a person simulating an attack-position in the docile mode would be easy to find; but difficult to find in the opposite extreme mode of tension and resistance.

    Once the position of the centre-of-gravity and the easiest route to it had been found in a particular posture, utilising a person’s ‘docile’ mode, then it could also be found in their ‘resistive’ mode.

    But pretty much all of the time people were completely unwilling to enter that docile mode to facilitate the practice; push-hands just was always the other guy being very tense in every direction that I would try to push or pull him in, and then just me swimming around him and shooting in the dark trying to guess where his centre could possibly be.

    I would overcompensate for them then: I’d go into rag-doll mode, in the hopes that at least this way I might be able to learn something about the way they used their weight; to be pushed around by them while not distracting my focus with trying not to be pushed, but rather staying relaxed enough to observe them properly while I was being pushed.

    Also I hoped that doing so might get the message across that two rams butting heads wasn’t getting anyone anywhere, and to say so verbally, to the effect of ‘you’re supposed to relax, like he says so, you great meat-head!’ never seemed appropriate for some reason. One of the reasons why I learned most when practising with my teacher is because he was incomparably more willing to take turns in being pushed around than everyone else, thence I could learn about his centre.

    It was so weird in class: the teacher was telling me to relax and feel out their centre and not worry about being pushed, but whenever I did that, of course everyone acted like I was killing the manly rah rah vibe, and ceased to be willing to engage properly.

    So while on the one hand push-hands was blocked by that, progress in contact-sparring was also blocked—though not quite as much as push-hands was, I think—by not ever being able to really pull the stops out, by having to drive with the brakes on all the time, due to people either not wanting to bother with sparring-gear, just plain not wanting to be that aggressive, or else for fear of injury. 


    Based on what I had read, it seems you didn't or couldn't follow your teacher's instructions properly. Am I correct? If you like or anyone else, I could explain why it is so weird to you. I went to a push-hand group in a park to see how they do it. They did really push-push hand which is incorrect.

     

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    3 hours ago, DynamicEquilibrium said:

     Some branches of martial arts still have Yijinjing embbeded in their fundamentals, at one point tendons feels like red hot steel wires and the bone marrow like boiling congee, later everything melts and the body seems like being filled with lead,

    Is this a quote from an ancient text? Isn't this a little over exaggerated. Your body would be burnt up at the boiling point of water. The boiling point of any metal is much higher than that the body will not and cannot withstand it.

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    17 minutes ago, DynamicEquilibrium said:

    So opposite to:

     

    In my opinion, a scientific approach to learning, research and practice has to be rooted in the ability to constantly challenge one's own point of views, otherwise we would just be carving dogmas in the stone of our minds. 

     

    Yes, that is true but there is only one good final conclusion.

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    7 hours ago, DynamicEquilibrium said:

    By such logic, it would mean that reversely the nervous system do not affect the breathing system in any ways right ? 

     

     

     

    Yes, that is right!

    Actually, breathing will make your nervous system more healthier and more sensitive. Your reaction will respond quicker and more flexible. It also helps to regulate your breathing better.

     

    FYI I was arm wrestling with many people. I saw them holding the breath and the face turns red while I was regulating my breath and so relaxed.

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    10 minutes ago, DynamicEquilibrium said:

    Do you mean that to regulate or to control breathing has no effects on the nervous system ? 

    Yes, that is correct. Regulating the breath is how long to hold the breath. When to release it? How fast or slow you want to inhale or exhale? How deep do you want the breath to go down?

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    1 hour ago, DynamicEquilibrium said:

    How do you prevent and avoid any autonomous nervous system disorders (è”°ç«ć…„é­”) to arise from your breathing practice ? 

     

    è”°ç«ć…„é­” You can only hear that from fictional stories. The breathing doesn't affect your nervous system. Unless someone hit you on your spinal cord.

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