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Hey Man, nobody's perfect.😁

@aliensurfer3976 Hi man !🤜🫷just let you know that you can copy his form...this young master to learn the real traditionnal kungfu posture.ruclips.net/video/M9CwNZXdj0s/видео.htmlsi=vKF4mwpbAsv7HbYZ ( xing yi quan) yi quan is chigong to have stong structure and fluidity...and XingYi is vertical internal circle, combine with PaKua ( latéral circle). The only 3 chinese INTERNAL BRANCH family of boxing is :TAICHI, XINGYIQUAN, PAKUA. other style are External or mixed. All Internal style came from WU DANG MOUNTAIN. ( shaolin lerned kungfu to défend the priest temple. Good training 🌏🏯

Thanks for the very kind words, and I'm glad that you find the videos useful.

Yeah good question. In all these sparring videos I'm always coaching, so we're always working on something different, specifically designed for the athlete - and of course a lot of drills and sparring isn't filmed. Every aspect is practiced, including pressuring - but, a lot of the stuff I do is a lot easier when someone is moving in, so I'm sure it is also drilled in to be partly stylistic in me now. So that's a really good spot by you.

Cheers. And I think it's very healthy that people don't agree with everything that I say. In fact, sometimes I realise that I no longer completely agree with everything that I say! It's all about evolving our understanding with more experience, right? Thanks for the kind words.

A lot of people feel anxiety when they do standing - or even yoga or other exercises where the body relaxes. I don't know everything that there is in the world, but for me, this is always about anxiety per se being massively physical. Many times I've pulled a muscle doing nothing, just through sheer stress. Anytime you just 'stop the world', that anxiety comes into focus, just like old injuries will often start to hurt again because we never properly healed them, we just blotted out the pain. Also, focusing on breathing can cause psychological effects. In more practical terms, the way we lean on our feet can cause pain in the chest - Wang Xiangzhai mentions that this happened to him, and he had to change the way he did standing. Hope you're feeling better now in any case.

But the video is about Yiquan as a fighting art and how to look or analyze a movement in preperation for training and fighting. I undertstand the desire for the cultural or spiritual aspect of this MA but I am happy about a channel that focuses on the combative aspect.

There is always a reason - and yeah, it's geeky but very interesting to work out why things are the way they are in different martial arts.

Thanks for the very kind words. Obviously I don't know everything and also obviously I get some things wrong - it's my journey of learning through teaching as well, which is what I get from the project. However, I think this is a straightforward one: The idea has always been that whole body unified force can be achieved without standing, but that standing is the shortcut. A lot of the discussion it is unscripted, so I say some things unclearly at times.

Although, having said that, a lot depends on what people mean by whole body unified force. And also, what people mean by 'comes from'. It's easy to assume that one 'accumulates' something through standing - so it's important for me to get across that WBUF doesn't 'come from' standing in that sense. As I have experienced it, standing just modified the efficiency and control of structure. But again, it depends what is meant by 'just'.

Ha ha, I know this.

Thanks, I appreciate that.

Our kangaroos doing amazing things with structure and elasticity. It’s fascinating to look at them from a martial arts perspective.

@@ange_mo Yes definitely. I believe they can punch a bit as well!

@@thr3treebase886 oh yes, upper arms like wrestler with tiny t-rex hands 🦖

Me too.

Yes. And one thing I would note most of all in the context of this video is his step-in double push, which I hope to talk about another time. He launches people dramatically and his timing and the way he sets the push is perfect.

Hi, thanks for taking time to comment. First of all, here is the answer to your request: ruclips.net/video/_murSNFyacA/видео.htmlsi=Kxq670eGf3Ghk4v4&t=5560 As for your wider points - some Yiquan teachers have a basic set of shi li exercises to help beginners, 'shi li' itself is a way of moving, not a set of fixed exercises. It can be applied to any movement. Lifting your arms up in front of you, with basic principles of correct movement, is called part of 'natural movement' because it's so simple and 'goes along with' natural physiology and the laws of physics in the most effective way. This particular posture is a fundamental exercise in all Yiquan because it's the most basic moving expression of standing pole - i.e. just begin to move your arms up. It's also an elementary practice for push hands. ‘Natural set’ is just a more effective way of saying ‘natural movement’ because we can define this as specific basic postures, rather just leaving it vague. Learners tend to find this much more helpful because instead of teaching a 'principle', it gives people something concrete to practise. Assuming an average, able body, all Yiquan practitioners use these techniques because they’re just natural movements. I also think you haven’t realised that there is a difference between slow movement and actual martial arts postures - which is a common misunderstanding these days as people generally think that Wang Xiangzhai didn't teach specific techniques. Whereas, he did. The technique 'flip the pancake' has infinite possible variations, so you will see lots of different versions, some quite varied, called by that name - but the idea is always the same, i.e. to use both your arms to disrupt or hit your opponent's arms. The version I’m showing is the most basic - i.e. the natural set version. I don't know who coined the name 'flip the pancake' originally, but it seems apt. As for thinking that what is ‘correct’ is ‘what was taught previously’, that’s the opposite of what Yiquan is, but I already see that you think the opposite of that, so we’re never going to agree on that. But this word of advice from Bo Jiacong might help you to understand the way I see it: ruclips.net/video/SGcuTGoDMiU/видео.htmlsi=C5duFmYrdRC2sQa-&t=6903 Tre

Thank you for your willingness to admit that you are teaching your own version of Yiquan and not the original thing. Making it all up as you go might be fine for someone who have got the basics but not for us who haven't. Thank you nonetheless.

Thanks for the positive feedback.

Hi - thanks for the advice and I'm sure you're right. And I genuinely appreciate the sentiment. Very few people ever offer to help me, even with advice. But my coach taught me that Wushu practitioners should straightforwardly promote Chinese physical culture, not seek to promote themselves through strategies.

Hi, cheers - I'm trying to keep the videos a bit shorter and on-point so that they're an easier reference and learning resource. Otherwise there's just too much in one video - but I take your point.

Thank you very much for the positive feedback - it helps a lot!

Yup, I thought exactly the same when I saw that.

Well thanks for saying that, but honestly it's not better to train with someone directly, it's just a different sort of journey. I saw an interview withYao Chenguang where he said that out of the 100s of people who've trained with him he can count on one hand the people who got it. Out of them, they will all have done 99.9% of the work on their own.

My advice would be that you already have one of the critically important things - you're looking for something that isn't BS. From there it's just about the bent of your character. If you have that 'bug' that makes you love Chinese martial arts deeply, then just follow those two things, see where the path takes you. The only thing I'd add from Wang Xiangzhai himself is don't pursue 'truth', or 'what works', because they take a lot of people down a dead end. Instead just keep focused on what is real. And be brutally honest about it. And from me, I'd say lots of things in Chinese martial arts might not seem to work, or to be scientific, but in the end, does it really matter if it gets you out of your chair and moving?

@thr3treebase886 thanks for that.cheers

You don't understand what is being explained at all... Do you.

@@AWingedDarknessAScionOfTheWind Lol again. Are you talking about the Epilepsy like guard stance? Telegraphing your intention by cocking the punch is a No No.

@sportmuaythaiv1045 Sometimes I very much want to telegraph my intentions to my opponent. The reasons vary from avoiding overly injuring them too goading them into a reaction that I know they will take to my action. Sometimes I even like to deliberately get off balance too - not just stick my chin up or turn my back to my opponent. You have a lot to learn - when you open your mind to the possibilities...

@@AWingedDarknessAScionOfTheWind Honestly, do you have real professional fight ever? Do you teach from real experience? I see many fatal flaws in your clip. This is what professional muaythai fighters go through, and they teach from experience. Their students will not have to learn just by trial and error. ruclips.net/video/sGwqd07lJCA/видео.html

Thank you - and I totally agree - there is always the 'art'.

You're very welcome. I've put the links up now.

@@thr3treebase886 Thank you very much!

Thank you so much for the positive feedback - it makes all the difference.

Thank you for your very kind words.

Hi, thanks for the response. In terms of people to learn from, that's always a matter of chance - you just have to see who you find and trust your path on that one. For corrections, the most important thing, as I see it, is to decide what you mean by 'doing it right'. If it's a traditional form, then the movements, order of movements, use of the body to perform the movements, all have parameters that are broadly right or wrong based on what the people who invented the form wanted the form to be like. But if doing it right means how to use and improve your structure over time then the 'right way' is an alignment of structure and intent. And that alignment is something you are already capable of doing for the most part - it's just a matter of how grow into the ability to find and use it more easily and effectively. Or, this is how Wang Xiangzhai thought about it according to his student Wang Demao. The simplest example, which is always counterintuitive, is hitting a punchbag quite light. That allows you to feel your whole structure, and then adjust it step by step - and the more you shift towards the correct structure, the more you intuitively feel what correct structure is.

@@thr3treebase886 "In learning martial art there are some things which you get due to your teacher, and some things you get by yourself. You receive the principles from your teacher. Then you practice, experience and achieve results by yourself. If you don't work by yourself, the methods will not be useful." - Wang Xiangzhai (translated by Andrzej) I think instead of looking for corrections, what I'm really saying is looking for opportunities to gauge my progress against better skilled people. Same thing I did playing basketball - I spent lots of time in the driveway, but eventually I had to go find better guys to hoop with to really see if I was improving. Thanks for your help!

I mean "five elements" in yiquan, which was specifically developed to get rid of such obscurifying terms, is preposterous

Hi, thanks for the kind words. Sorry no I don't live near London.

@@thr3treebase886 If you don’t mind me asking. Where in the UK do you live? If it’s not too far, maybe one day I could visit you. Many Thanks.

@@deadalus888 Hi, thanks for the good thought. At the moment I only really have time to do these videos. I get at least one person per week asking if they can come up and work with me, but I just don't have the time to meet everyone even though I really appreciate the interest. I will let everyone know if I get round to putting on some seminars though.

@@thr3treebase886 Thanks. I understand it would be nice to work with you and maybe a few others in the future. Much regards. PS If you ever change your mind. Let me know!

Should add, I also enjoyed hearing your thoughts. As a Chen Taichi guy, the thing you said at the end about the difference between Yiquan and Taijiquan sounds about right to me! Interestingly, I think that's what I was seeing in your form as well! Clearly has strong connections, but without the intent of sinking. I haven't thought of it in this way before. Very interesting!

@@beenright5115 Thanks very much. Yeah, particularly Yiquan influenced with with Chen 56 for me, with it being a competition form so it's not so taboo to flavour it up.

Thanks for the very kind words, much appreciated. Unfortunately at the moment I don't do any public classes or workshops.

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When Wang Xiangzhai talks about 'internal strength' he makes it clear that he's discussing how the body coordinates as an overall system, rather than any sort of exotic force. How well someone's body coordinates will vary from person to person and be at different stages throughout your training life. You'll also change the tasks that you are using zhan zhuang for, so there's no straightforward answer to this. Some people near enough have 'it' straight away, other people take a long time. Only you can find these answers and decide through experiment and monitoring your progress how you're improving and what tasks you need to focus on. But forty minutes was the ideal time recommended in the past.