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Shifu, I'm loving your channel. Thanks for the knowledge you shared.

God forbid either one of these gentlemen ever meets a High School level wrestler or higher in an actual altercation.

My master talks of peng hang square power it's what you need if you were to slowly push a spear through a foot ball on a wall so it's like a special alignment within your own body the spear and to push it through the ball .This can be used in many ways hands kicks weapons all sorts.

Interesting !

How does that apply to getting punched in the face? Because people don't do a lot of one-armed pushing once a fight starts.

Amazing work, Chester! Thank you for sharing. Have a great day.

Thank you master

Thank you for all these videos! I was wondering some things while reading your bio on your site: have you ever applied these concepts into your Shaolin or Mantis training? How did it affect your techniques? Did these arts also have their own internal aspect too? I would really enjoy to see these too in videos one day if you ever find it interesting or useful to show them! :) thank you

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Watching those students advance in skill is a blessing. Thank you!

The idea of Peng as being like a shield is extremely interesting. It does make a kind of body sense to me.

I want to add a bit of info about HOW to do this, as this video did not inherently cover that. This video was filmed after several hours of practicing and filming the lessons for the Stage 4, Neijin Mastery online course so Moe and everyone present was already familiar with how to do it, as we are just focusing on application versus other skills at this point. So let me explain a bit now: The main key to the most subtle of Tai Chi internal skills is a total transparency between your consciousness and your physical being. Through practice and release, you reach a silence that is not disturbed within, a stillness that persists, and a responsiveness that responds without being influenced by any monkey mind. The tension that we hold in our physical body, whether intentionally, or unconsciously, limits our body's ability to respond to our Yi Intent instantly and transparently. The emotional burdens you had carried, weighs upon your energy and shifts your responsiveness from their optimal state. The mental fixations you had formed, such as rules of behavior that don't need to apply now, adaptations to traumas that are not efficient here, and any other thought that is anything but here and only now, they form a maze that endlessly delay and limit your Yi's impact on your physical being and reality. In the first 3 stages of our curriculum, you gradually work to release all of this. Fascia Mastery to release conflict and struggle. Song to release physical, emotional, and mental tension. Qi Mastery to awaken your ability to sense and manipulate the nonphysical aspect of energy. Upon this foundation, the 4th stage of Neijin Mastery becomes available and accessible. In this video we explore how this transparent and instant quality of Neijin helps us to overcome even the powerful and fast Qi Mastery's internal power and the heavy and spontaneous power of Song Mastery. But it would not be possible to reach this level of awareness, release, and inner transparency without the prior levels, unless you are just born a Tai Chi master. 😃 This is one of the reasons why so many people have dedicated themselves to Tai Chi practice, but have not achieved the mastery that the great masters of the past have. But it is indeed possible and we hope that these videos continue to help you find your path to the top of that mountain! 😃🙏

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Thank you so much Master … and if some day you could explain how to make an efficient Qin Na ;) in Taiji …As usual great educational video ☯️☯️☯️🙏🙏🙏🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️🪴🪴🪴

Thanks Sifu Lin. Your videos are always full of "materials". I can always find myself picking up a bit every time I watched a video of yours. But even a bit is a big deal for me. Anxious for your neijing program sometime in October.

Hi Chester! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge to help this world become a better place. When one understands the deeper meaning of martial arts, one ultimately has to give up violence.

The more you FEEL l the imagined energy ball, with the feeling of self-love, a joyful experience, the more you train the body.

Does it matter which feet are in front whilst you doing single push hand using the right hand?

All fighting exercises must played realistically - I mean not necessarily fast or with force and so on, but at least trajectories of the blows must be realistic. One of problems with Chinese traditional martial arts is they for some reason always starting from diagonally crossing hands touching and strikes are performed mostly in straight line. In real fight its very very hard to get that diagonal hand-placing and blows are mostly boxing-like big hooks. In fights 99% there are not diagonal handset for defending, its takes just too long to reach across your body there, mostly hand-contact are between the hands of the same side. No sword-fencing crossed-swords-like hand position, not in the beginning, not in the fight. That doesn't mean you can't use TaiJi principles, but everybody have seen many times how wrong presumptions and ideas about fight made TaiJi "masters" loose shamefully. Real Taoist art springs from real movements of the world, not some kind of imaginations, however traditional (unchangeable) they are. Reaction for changing World (specific street-violence in the modern West, quite different from that of the old China)) must be changing, that what can be unchanged are Taiji inner principles.

Thank you Sifu! With respect & gratitude.🙏

alright now do this in a pressured environment.

Thank you so much for the enlightening and inspiring video! Many questions come to mind and I will find time this weekend to ask one or two more but the one I am really curious about is this : when we talked about song state among others there is the ideea of not tensing the muscle because that segments the fascia and energy will be blocked there. In min 19:05 when Mo assists you by pushing I see your arm muscles contracting (I may be wrong). Is there a point in ones training where qi can flow regardless of muscles tension or some muscles still are active while (for example) you accept his force and return it to him? Sorry for the long comment, didn’t knew how to shorten it further haha

Any chance there might be a technique/strategy drills video down the road? I'm used to Wing Chun thinking, but I'd like to get more into the Taijiquan mindset when sparring.

Many of us know that real Internal Taiji is a formidable Fighting Art… However, it would take a super great teacher (like our Sifu Chester), who is generous enough and willing enough, to share the secret codes of this wonderful Art with us. I’ve been searching non-stop for nearly 40 years to find such a teacher. Now, I’ve found him. How lucky are we?.. Thank you Sifu Chester, with much ❤ and appreciation. Peter Nguyen (Cairns, Australia).

Pull counters are cool. I had embrace them also or else you just walk into punches.

OMG, I kind of worked out most of that the painful way. Yep being attacked with intent. Those not committed attacks result in nothing. I also find that to contact the approaching fist is harder than to contact the forearm or the elbow. Once I achieved contact I am in my comfort zone. Even when they kick, I find it easier to contact their knees to thighs to disorient their committed path of action. Also if I am in the 'kill zone' where they can strike me with one move without telegraphing their move, I will feel the strike. However, if I am outside the 'kill zone' where they have to move their centre of gravity to reach me, in other words, more time needed to reach me = telegraphing their move. I can contact disorients and guide them whilst I am in my comfort zone. Thanks for explaining it so well. Another painfully learnt way to survive; is the time you see the opponent just started to initiate their reflex blinking, you can move in, because by the time their eyes open and receive the blur images of your approach and process the information, send instructions to their nerves to respond, you would have reached your comfort zone already. Please keep up your good work. Thanks for spreading the good and very interesting art of Tai Chi Chuan.

There is a lot here. I’m going to need to watch this a few times. It feels like it’s really close to chess. I googled Chinese Chess and it’s a real game. Were any Tai Chi masters strong players of Chinese Chess?

This is lyric talk. Aaginst a real boxer tis is completly solved in a secon!

This was fantastic. I loved every moment of it and it's great that you are demonstrating how the approach to fighting differs with Tai Chi. Also that someone's intention can be felt and being overwhlemed by the counters as the main intent is so strong.

Baiting is very much like how you would play with a cat, using a cat toy. Cats are much faster than humans both in their hand speed and their lunge speed. So to them, our movements look very slow and casual. It is not easy to excite a cat, that's why they mostly ignore you ha ha. But when you present a toy target, then now there is something kind of tempting. And if you wiggle it in and out of its reach, at just the right distance that they are tempted to pounce at it, but not quite close enough to pounce at it, unless they wind up a little more, then several things happen: 1. They began to get most interested in pouncing it. 2. They began to load up to prepare to pounce for it. While their pounce is much too fast for us to respond to, their load up getting ready to pounce is something we can observe and respond to. So now you can know when to pull the toy out of the way so they miss it. But if you pull the toy too far away too fast, they'll realize it's out of reach and they won't pounce. So you have to time it just right. This is the principle of baiting a faster opponent, to become committed, while slowing them down at the same time. The Tai Chi mastery skills of Song Mastery helps your movements to be spontaneous and unpredictable. Neijin Mastery allows you to misalign their power and speed if they make contact with you. Yi Mastery allows you to read their intention and really stretch out the time they need to aim, wind up, and act. If you can avoid a lightning quick cat, you will be able to avoid fast humans too, will you not? Hopefully this inspires you to practice more Tai Chi and play more with cats! Let me know if you have any questions! :)

This is gold. I'm reminded of my Aikido training where we were taught to "move on Ki." Also there is a theory that the two halves of our brains don't always perceive time in the same way. One hemisphere might be a fraction of a second ahead of the other. It doesn't operate that way all the time because it would be confusing. But at certain times one hemisphere may be slightly ahead. This could explain the feeling of déjà vu as well as the ability you describe at the end.

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I can feel how it really worked with his "yes".

Sifu Chester, does body size and stature tend to favor one art over another? For example, since Xingyi is powerful and direct is it more suitable to larger more muscular people, whereas, smaller boned, less massive and less muscular people might do better with Ba Gua or Tai Chi that tend to use more redirection? Naturally, this is a generalization rather than a rule as even if it is the case there are likely exceptions.

Chester, you're a ridiculously good teacher. I got taught Hsing-I and Bagua by Su Dong Chen for a few months and it was a three hour class every weekend...but you summarized and taught so much more in just a few minutes..! I take my hat off to you Sir..! (the only downside to the Hsing-i training was that after 2.45 hours, the master wanted us to get inside the circle (of the basketball court) and fight each other for thirty second rounds, bare hands. I got punched in the face...and got a bloody nose out of it..! I quit not long afterward, especially as I didn't get a chance to have a revenge fight..!! I'm glad that was over thirty years ago. I prefer taichi, although I can punch quite well.

Request: please explain the remaining 3 basic strikes (Zuan, Pao & Heng) in the basic form of Xingyi too! 😆🙏 Thank you for sharing!

Thanks Sifu, that sounds unbelievable! Your project is definitely one of epic proportions and love for the arts.

Awesome! Thanks

In a resent video, Sifu Chester you explained the difference between corporeal Chi vs. Extra-corporeal chi. Whereas, sufficiently skilled Tai Chi players can use both kinds, is Xingyi, being an earlier developed art, using more corporeal chi?

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Sifu, any Guoshuguan Shaolin Kung fu courses planned for the future? Sorry if I sound like a greedy layperson who has not bothered to consider the bountiful wealth of training already available.

Thank you Master Chester. When you are doing the form and voicing which hand or foot is being used sometimes it looks like you say the right arm or right foot when it looks infact like teh opposite limb. Are doing the form from yoru perspective or our perspective. Im looking at it from your perspective.

This was very informative. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much Master ....

Everything this channel, Phoenix Mountain Tai Chi or Sifu Chester offers is truly amazing and clearly inspiring! The only thing I would ask is that whenever you demonstrate a martial movement, PLEASE don’t just show the form but ALWAYS include its application! Even if you may only do a martial form in one video, but then inform viewers that the applications will be shown in another that’s fine but please don’t ever just show the forms of something “martial”, and assume viewers will understand how to apply the movements. 😳🤦🏻‍♂️🙄/👌✌️🤲☝️😉