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Great ! @Apech funny wise cat. Deep with touch of lightness which makes I enjoy many your posts.

This thread is a call for denial and it worked. Power corrupts for sure. But any person with power, will just do what he feels "allowed" to do. It's too easy to blame "heads" while masses are ready to take the position next. I have just to watch cars or houses, clothes and shoes to know that. What makes all that particularly unacceptable is that we living the climax of that era (and no I won't use a metaphor). Even if we trace back our evolution, there is nothing like a sudden change. Take money or agriculture these started with prototypes and started all around the human world. I guess this is US !

Yes sometimes I disagree or just don't resonate with someone else, yes... and I could speak my mind, why don't do that every time the opportunity shows up ? Tolerance ? Healthy doubt ? could take it as Inspiration ? Generally frontal opposition end up in sterile fights, so I keep that for my friends !

Wow a discovery (for me) thanks !

I love him... I discovered him with sweat tea some electric deep blues here ! He may be my favorite bluesman

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Hi @Rara, I'm here, still here "we will always love you" Another major difference is that taiji has a deep focus on the biggest joint of the body, the pelvic bone. It's about moving while linking the rooting to the higher body parts. It's about moving in space while the whole body keeps being integrated from the toes to the fingers. It takes room to practice, that can be challenging. But after some time you begin practicing with partners, talking about dealing with alterity and possibly confrontation (depending on the teaching spirit and partners). It makes a huge difference with qi gong because there is no way it's just in your head. Get tense, push without peng jin and your teacher will be happy to prove you wrong

I want to support that, all that. Taiji Quan is a type of qi gong -with practical, martial applications- but the greatest gem is in the qi gong.

You have been trolled away guys. The topic was : is gendao worth having here !

hm, why do you think that ?

I don't pretend to know the future and my personal choices don't go to technology if I have to clarify I trust more a replicated science experiment that a one time witness or a video. It took time to go there. Basically that's what I say. But even science process is not pure science, there are personal/financial interests... Shades of grey ^^

Maybe ! Could be good if we can learn from the trees

They are scientific facts with huge implication. They are also confirmation of predictions based on theoretical systems : they were expected before we can technologically observe them. Science and technology drive each other and it doesn't look it it stopped. IQ for once is receding which I agree is of concern... axe, knife, engine, micro chip, then now nano technologies. You can link these object to these eras, last is on its beginning which is a game changer : Stone age Iron Age Industrial revolution Digital Revolution

Pure research : Higgs' boson Gravitational waves Complete model of particle physics Technology (just as scary as any new tool in a clumsy child's hands) : DNA based Nano Tech Technology power is related to smallness : axe, knife, engine, micro chip, then now nano technologies. It's goes the same for handling sources of power. Fire, Gas, Nuclear, what's next ?

I think we live an era of technological boom and I think one day it will settle or at least there will turn in a form of stability. I trust our need for diversity. Lack of rooting will create a need for it. What reunite many of us here are ancient cultures we perpetuate. These evolved too but I think the root, the why and the how are maintained. We also do it to stay human, to keep that inertia inside that revved engine. We are very young, if we happen to live long maybe one day we will become mature. Hope is free and necessary. One thing I think is very positive even considering it's own limits and tendency to overrule, beliefs slowly replaced by science. Considering science as a process not a doctrine.

You underestimate me, by farrrrr

The irony of your comment coming from the beauty of the picture... is. I can find something amusing in such a distance.

I had the project of giving the detailed training steps I passed-by. I'm not sure what help it can be. Probably none except for me since the people that doesn't share the same practice will not understand and dedicated Yang Taiji practitioners seem almost absent (or I don't notice them, that's very possible). So this is not what I give here, I'm not trying to teach online but to put into words (well... mine!) a basic overview of my (our) practice. It might be interesting to discuss it both for me and others. Routine Almost a decade with one teacher, started at 24 years old, weakly course (maybe I missed one or two). Daily practice around 60mn/a day but sometimes 3h/4h and sometimes none (walking + resting is welcome). Week-end workshops One week workshop (now annually since 2016). Basic training is generally meditation / 2 yang forms / weapons (pole/dao/jian), starting to take more place year after year. Add-ups are qi gong / horse stance / stretching. It's really better to do 60-75 mn in a row and not doing half in morning half in evening like I had often to do last year. I'm not done with learning there are other forms I still haven't started. The greatest results I have observed are in the fields of cleansing the body, balancing the emotions and internal knowledge. In 9 years of practice I let go of back pain (long ago) and I'm much less subject to emotional swing. I have endured challenges and pressure in a way I can't blush and haven't been sick for what 5? 6 years? (never seen my teacher sick either). Besides as locks drops, feelings become clearer this doesn't mean I don't go through excess no more, but less and I deal with them much better. In the same movement and as emotions and body are overlapped I perceive spots in my body more clearly. I'm not sure that the feelings (when observing some place) changed much but the whole (both as a whole and distinct parts is more present/accessible). How ? The prime factor is not "more energy" but a better balance. It helps to have more energy only if you have you internal structure set up correctly. As we tend to stuck our energy in the lower and upper back more energy stocked may become more imbalance. Most people grew up imbalanced and most bodies manage to ignore blockage until the body send the loudest alarms. It is possible to get free of these locks by a better body presence (including locks acceptation) and by sending energy back to pelvic bone, feet and legs. Basically it's not that complicated it's about using your pearls (articulations) stretching your muscles and tendons while observing body parts. The more you practice you more you can stay "in touch" with your moving body (talking qualitative and quantitative) the more the feeling and effects are. Also this is the way you achieve power, by stopping wasting (leaking) and eventually, secondarily, start to accumulate. Once you relax the tense parts of the body setting articulations free then you understand (by doing) that you can use your internal force with minimal muscular brute force. So being under pressure you're able to stay (more) relaxed/distant by not letting emotions and (overly yang) energy going in excess to the upper body. There are others active dynamics at the same time. For instance : Activating yong quan pump / Bai huei pushed up (which implies stretching lumbar/pelvic/hips areas according to the stance low) for the more obvious. Besides the Yang form acts on the body like it's lungs (in a Qi Gong way) it dilates and contracts absorbing light energy, releasing tensions. This is realized (like in qi gong) by coordinating breathing and moves. Yang tai chi alternate between closed and open stance, right and left support points. Empty and full at the beginning. I don't want to be too exhaustive. This looks like prerequisites but I think this internal travel, then achieving a better understanding of our internal energetic and emotional mechanisms is a real gem of Yang Taiji, and being that it is an ultimate lesson already and because it apply to any situation, it's a living lesson.

Hi Vajra You welcome I had some minor knee trouble since it hasn't gone to pain but I felt something was going on on my right knee. There is a background I won't develop on that knee trouble. But I had some concern before Taiji and I knew there was no structural major issue. But taiji did put pressure on that point and I started to fear lower stances, enough to ask my teacher. Confident about it as a minor or transitional concern he said that "fear is often a bad adviser". I realized at the time that what I had to do was stretching so I went lower and I did additional stretches. And after some time Taiji fixed it. Often neigong practices point us our weakness. Sometime meditation gave me awful pain in the back but what a satisfaction when it disappear (I mean during meditation). Accepting what your body tells you is accept your emotional and traumatic history. Mechanically the melt of stretch and muscular strengthening did the job. Maybe it fixed the alignment too but that I can't tell. The articulation has been fine for years. Why so many knee trouble ? Maybe some do too quickly too much ? Or not consistently enough. It's possible. Basics for any practice you should not bend you knee further than your toes. Keep foot/knee/hip alignment is very important. Knees are not supposed to be twisted they can support it a little but it just damage them. In many taiji videos I see people doing hip rotations from the front of the foot. If you don't want to jump I not sure of what good it can be. Heel is like a ball so it's perfect to turn from it. Also if knee trouble there is a known method, one should do body weight shifts on the other foot then doing the rotation and it's still very good tai chi.

Hey, look what came to me ! Some fresh scientifically attested news ! The last (01/03/20) science : Middle Stone Age cooking Early evidence of cooked starchy plant food is sparse, yet the consumption of starchy roots is likely to have been a key innovation in the human diet. Wadley et al. report the identification of whole, charred rhizomes of plants of the genus Hypoxis from Border Cave, South Africa, dated up to 170,000 years ago. These archaeobotanical remains represent the earliest direct evidence for the cooking of underground storage organs. The edible Hypoxis rhizomes appear to have been cooked and consumed in the cave by the Middle Stone Age humans at the site. Hypoxis has a wide geographical distribution, suggesting that the rhizomes could have been a ready and reliable carbohydrate source for Homo sapiens in Africa, perhaps facilitating the mobility of human populations. Science, this issue p. 87 Abstract Plant carbohydrates were undoubtedly consumed in antiquity, yet starchy geophytes were seldom preserved archaeologically. We report evidence for geophyte exploitation by early humans from at least 170,000 years ago. Charred rhizomes from Border Cave, South Africa, were identified to the genus Hypoxis L. by comparing the morphology and anatomy of ancient and modern rhizomes. Hypoxis angustifolia Lam., the likely taxon, proliferates in relatively well-watered areas of sub-Saharan Africa and in Yemen, Arabia. In those areas and possibly farther north during moist periods, Hypoxis rhizomes would have provided reliable and familiar carbohydrate sources for mobile groups. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6473/87 + vegetable have no bones (so you won't find em) + paleo guys generalized cannibalism (consensus) + agriculture did not arrived in one day + next water decades water issue + methane emissions + meat related cancers ... It's not because it's was the old days that it's the right thing, no bulk package offers... Sorry but no... no... NO.

Look at the teeth... Look a the blood type... Look a the diseases... Look at the blood types.... Look at the environment... Are we paleo ?