I would love for you to learn a lot, because you already know so much and have such good intentions for yourself, I look forward to the good you bring to your world as you grow even more. When you master Tai Chi even more, what kind of experiences will you be having, that is even better than now? 😃🙌☯️
@@phoenixmountaintaichithank you for your kind words! All I really want to do is put out good and loving energy into the world and I’m certain this course will help me with that :)
Thank you so much for your answer Master, it's always a very accurate and educational explanation, I love it....I wish you lived in France ;) ...Take care of you ☯☯☯🙏🙏🙏🐝🐝🐝🌳🌳🌳
Thank you! France sounds totally fantastic and I'd love to visit! If you or anyone you know would be interested in helping me plan a seminar, email me and let's make it happen! 🙌🙏
Do you create sinking by internal stetching? Or do you you make an internal cirkle? And can it be done by sending the energy to your elbow? Your video's are very helpfull in understanding! Thank you!
I understand that other masters use those terminology and they may totally work in the context of how they do it. I have enjoyed watching presentations about internal stretching and such. In this method I showed, you maintain a state of emptiness and comfort, which means not stretching, while you allow yourself to experience sinking. When you touch someone's fascia you can transmit this state of sinking, and they will experience it with you. Regarding the elbow, no special action is done in these presentations involving the elbow. In Neijin Mastery's teaching of Rollback, you will see a discussion about rolling back their Yi to your elbow. This is the Yi, their intention, and not their energy. My recommendation is to maintain purity of a method so that terminology and intention doesn't get mixed up in an unhelpful way. If you are working on an internal skill of another school and they do something a certain way, master it just in that way, to the extent that it actually works. And when you want to accomplish what I show here, do it just this way while leaving other skills behind until you have a clear mastery of this. You know already that a full cup can't be filled and you are definitely not having that problem. Consider too then, if you fill a cup that's still got 25% something else, what kind of weird brew might you end up with? And wouldn't a pure properly made beverage be wonderful? Thanks for asking and participating in our fun online community! 😃🙏
Good video! I found it was a progression from outputting during Peng to having rollback contained inside Peng, mainly gained from having no intention on touch, also using the mind to guide the flow from them to me (bypassing the contact point), which created emptiness at the point of contact and enables borrowing to occur powering your moves and returning the energy back …. All born from sinking and separating. All happening at once. I find when you have that quality, it creates a kind of floating, seizing reflex in the opponent, at which point you have him.
That's extremely well stated! It sounds like a lot of steps and a lot of things happening at once, and it is, and that's why gradual practice building upon the skill one component at a time, is so helpful to assembling the complete and effective method. Some of the really key things you said are "no intention at touch", "using the mind (Yi) to guide the flow" and "creates a kind of floating, seizing reflex in the opponent". Good job on your understanding and thank you for sharing! 😃🙏
Hello Is there any hope of you coming to Europe and do a seminar soon? Did you at some point took this option into consideration? Online courses are much appreciated but to experience something in real life and to have feedback from someone with your experience on what one could be doing wrong is a different thing all together. Also I find it that when training because you want some kind of confirmation that you are not wasting your time and something is actually happening, one might at some point just imagine a result and not actually obtain it.
I totally agree with you about the value of hands on experience and getting confirmation that you are on the right track! The online courses have a lot of partner work to improve that aspect as much as possible. While in person we can experience and learn so much in a short amount of time. So I would love to come to Europe for a seminar! If you or anyone you know might be interested in helping me plan one, email me and let's see what we can accomplish! 🙌😃
Great teachings learning a lot from you Sifu thank you, I practice meditation and it’s fascinate to grasp all this concepts how deeper layer consciousness or your inner qi can be influenced into someone else just by staying in your blissful state, truly amazing stuff looking forward for the classes. Question: Are they classes on RUclips the same as on the web or it’s more in depth teachings. Thanks you for the great content 🙌🏻😃
That's great that you practice meditation because that will be helpful in helping you to silence the noise and become aware of the deeper and more subtle layers you work with in Tai Chi as an internal and spiritual practice! The courses are very detailed, each one having 30+ in depth lessons on elements of the topic. They also differ in that I give drills to practice alone or with others, and meditations to deeply and fully ingrain the skills. Sometime of the RUclips videos are clips from the fundamental, or particularly interesting and beneficial topics from the course that I would like as many people to generally benefit from as possible, while the course is much more detailed and structured for people who seek a deep and complete mastery. Thank you for asking! 😃🙏
As usual excellent teaching and very educational...when we train we discover the functioning of our body and it is fascinating...Taiji opens the door to another world. What can affect the quality of peng? Can Peng fluctuate in the body ? and is there a link between Peng and the Yuan Qi ? Have a nice day.
Peng is the result of harmonizing the Yin and Yang flow of Qi. Qi comes from the Source in a state of Wuji and differentiates into Yin and Yang. Harmonizing the flow of Yin and Yang establishes a potential, an emptiness through which Peng and other qualities arise. This is a training that we begin in Song Mastery and continue through Neijin Mastery. Yuan Qi is an energy closer towards physical reality, like vitamins, for our vital energy system. And just as good vitamins can make an athlete healthy, so can Yuan Qi make a Taichi master healthy and energetically vibrant. And just as vitamins are not what primarily forms the skill of a football player or a gymnast, nor is it the primary focus of the Tai Chi techniques. Aside from that, we definitely want to take care of our health as best as we can, both physically and energetically! Cheers! 😃
i've watched videos about connecting to fascia, including the other channel that you recommended. what i don't get it, how can you connect to the training partner's fascia when they're aggressive like the one in this video, or in wrestling or sumo practice? and do you connect their force to your fascia, or is it risky because that way, they can control your fascia?
Yes when you connect to their fascia they are also connected to your fascia. This is not really different from any other situation in combat though. It's like if you grab someone, they can also grab you. If you get in range to knee someone they can also knee you. What matters is that you are more skilled and familiar with the situation than they are. And that is where practice comes in to make you a master of what you choose to engage in, is it not? Their aggression does not make it difficult to connect to their fascia. It actually makes it easier because their force and the fascia that conducts that force becomes more apparent. It takes training to be able to do this quickly, and under pressure, and that is what training can help you accomplish right? I technically know how jet fighters work, you lock on the target and fire the missile, but I am definitely not going to be that good at doing it if you throw me in a plane haha. Good news for Tai Chi is that when it comes to fascia, the Fascia Mastery course is designed to take you from a complete beginner and to lead you through a series of drills that will make you totally capable of connecting with fascia in increasingly challenging and higher pressure situations! I hope that clarifies some of your questions! Thanks for thinking through all of this and asking them! 😃🙏
Great question! The next topic is Neijin Mastery, internal force mastery. Specifically Neijin is what the Yang family calls the eight energies of Peng Lu Ji An, Cai Lie Zhou Kao. You will learn to apply the float and sink, clockwise and counter clockwise rotation, and gather and release from Qi Master, along with shifting your and your partner's intent, to completely manifest these eight energies for push hands, form, and combat. Beyond the eight energies you will learn the Jin fans, not literally physical fans, but the strategic mental constructs that Yang Jianhou's lineage used to apply the eight energy in combination and in an agile and lively way. This is an inner door secret that they transmitted very rarely and carefully, and it's totally cool to apply because of how fluid it makes your taichi feel! Neijin Mastery should release in 6-8 weeks. And meanwhile the better you are at Fascia, Song, and Qi Mastery, the easier it'll be to immediately learn the 8 Neijin methods. Thank you for asking and for your support! 😃🙏
Two questions (sorry this is so long): 1.) Regarding the peng donut--is this describing the flesh, like say I got punched on the chest, would it be my actual chest skin and meat moving upward and my actual core moving downward? Or is it more describing the movements my hands make, more upward the further they are from my body, and more downward the closer? Or is it my weiqi moving up around me and down through me? Something else? 2.) How does this sinking relate to the fascia manipulation taught in earlier videos? Are we to connect to the fascia after the folding Jin?
For the Peng donut, that's my metaphor for the Yin and Yang energy flow that establishes the Peng effect. Your skin does not actually move upwards, I have not mastered becoming a snake haha. This video explains it more, and it's explored in great detail in Qi Mastery and the upcoming Neijin Mastery! ruclips.net/video/fuliU4FUw_E/видео.html 2) During fascia mastery training, you gain an awareness of their fascia that you almost always connect to, from a conscious level until it becomes unconsciously automatic. Because Fascia is where their energy and spirit all intersect and function. So it is extremely advantageous for you to master it and to build upon it to influence Qi and intent. Interesting questions and I'm sure other people wonder similar ones, so thanks for being the one to ask! 🙌😃
@@phoenixmountaintaichi I think it is very thoughtful of you to allow a payment plan for your courses, that makes them a lot easier to access. Your website doesn't say if they're weekly or monthly payments. Would you mind clarifying that, please?
A new thing I recognize is “Don’t predict next step of the opponent”, just “Aware, keep Silently to feel the energy, force from the opponent instantly “ Is that right? Thanks 🙏
That's totally helpful, because when you predict, anticipate, you're no longer present , no longer engaging and responding to your real opponent When you are inside your head, fighting with your predictions, and hoping for reality to match your imagination, how quick and natural will your response be? So your insight is totally spot on. Well said! Thanks for sharing. 😀🙏
@@phoenixmountaintaichi Oh, thanks sifu 🙏 Your sharings blow my mind ✨ so much :) I love Taichi and I intend to apply Taichi to my kid's soccer like "Taichi kicks" 🤩 Can you share something about "Taichi Kicks" 🙏
@@kennosunioHaha nice! I highly recommend this movie called Shaolin Soccer. It's very fun and motivating and is a great source of Tai Chi and kicks haha.
Physical resistance doesn’t really stop this kind of technique. A beginner perhaps would be stopped by this but it’s not the resistance that’s stopping them, it’s the fight pulling them out of the correct mindset that this technique relies on. Trust me when I say I know how nonsensical that may sound to you, I felt the same way when it was explained to me, but then my teacher did it lol. You just have to experience this, you cannot get anything from just watching. You gotta find someone who can do this and have them do it on you, it’s the only way.
Hi! If someone has the skill and centering so that you are not about to immediately sink them, then before you succeed, you will maneuver them into a position where they are over committed and mentally off balance where this becomes viable. It's like how you learn a judo throw or wrestling takedown and sometimes you can just do the move and succeed and sometimes you have to set them up and make use of the right opportunity. In these demos I have the luxury of knowing where and when my partner is attacking. Otherwise, you will need to know that, but such skill can come with practice and experience so that's okay right, is it not? And once you do, and you look back to consider a technique like this, what is inside this technique, that is more than the techniques you had known, but aligned with what you want to achieve in any way? Aside from what you already understand, what growth would help you know more, that you can begin to understand in a totally helpful way now? Thanks for continuing to watch and comment on this channel! It's nice to have a different view point and voice! 😃🙏
@@LiShuBenthat's extremely well said "it's the fight pulling them out of the correct mindset that this technique relies on" ! You understand this very well. 🙌😃
"What if they do XYZ instead. . ." is the most common thing an instructor runs into. Doesn't matter if it's esoteric Tai Chi skills or MMA jab hook takedown combo. Everybody asks about other scenarios. The answer is always "this is what I'm teaching right now, this is today's lesson". Be patient. Always consider the bigger picture and how what is being taught is part of the fight, not the whole fight, but if learned and understood it can make your whole fight better.
@@nathanielbrundige5982Well said! Very true about keeping an eye on the bigger picture along with details of what's being expressed at the moment. I tell my students that we are like construction workers learning to use our tools as best as we can, hammers, screwdrivers, drill, and for now let's get as good as we can at it each tool, so that when it comes time to put it all together, we have great tools and great familiarity with them. And then we'll really be able to build something fantastic! Thanks for commenting! 🙌😃
You would be right to think that there is something similar in the sophisticated use of Bagua to lead and misdirect people, aside from that, Yi in Yang Family Tai Chi is more about influencing intention than optimizing geometry. Both are really deep internal arts though! Thank you for commenting, I appreciate it. 🙌😀
Strategy is guided by goal. If your goal is to subdue your adversary face down on the ground, you might grab a wrist, throw them while holding the wrist, and twist the wrist into a hammer lock and sit on them. Once you have a hold on them, it is usually a bad idea to let go and give them another opportunity to attack you. There are many other goals, e.g. administering painful injuries, breaking bones, killing them, etc. My problem with this demonstration is that I don't see a rational goal that it serves, beyond possibly dissuading an incompetent attacker from continuing. The problem with this goal is that with just a little more competence, or just a good trick, or just good luck, they could use the 2nd chance they are given to do you harm. You never know how competent an attacker is. Most real-world attackers have done this before, and so they have some experience, and you have NO idea just what that experience might be. Indeed, there are techniques like Drunken Sailor Kung Fu, where people pretend to be incompetent to mislead their opponents. Can you fit your techniques into my world-model as described above? Thanks . Steve
Hi Steve, thank you for an excellent analysis on practical considerations in a real hostile situation! You are totally right about the wisdom of keeping control and maintaining any advantage you have accrued. I often tell my students a bird in hand is worth two in the bush! Or wrist in hand, as you say. 😃 You are right that the demonstrations I show here are I am letting them go free more than I would prefer to do in a hostile conflict. And I think you are definitely experienced enough to see, aside from the casual demonstrations I show, how will you continue the techniques into a submission or finish, without letting go, in ways that I didn't show but are totally compatible with your skill set? Because you sound very experienced as well as open minded, and thoughtful, all signs of someone that can really understand and figure things out. How would I fit this into your model? If I have the opportunity while they are off balance and immobilized, I like to follow these setups with joint locks and takedowns and submissions. And it's helpful and important that I indeed don't let go, to maximize the control during all of this. If the timing is limited, perhaps a strike or a clinch and await a better opportunity. I'm planning on some videos to illustrate Tai Chi's strategy, and goals (I like your phrase, strategy is guided by goals) to combat. Right now we're still laying the foundation so people will understand the tool kit that we use, before we start discussing the blueprint that puts together, how Tai Chi fights. Thanks for opening up this discussion with your analysis! I appreciate it. 😃🙏
Aren't most real-world attackers domestic abusers? At least that's a common scenario where most people would want to avoid escalating or harming the “opponent”. You also have medical professionals potentially needing to subdue patients, and so on. I'm not sure your world-model is complete.
@@sashaboydcomthat's a really good point! One of my students always say "I wish I knew this Tai Chi stuff for that drunk uncle at every family reunion" and we would laugh. One day I asked if that is a real person or like a figure of speech, and he said, real person haha. So you're totally right to remind us of all the different scenarios! As we get more into the Qi and Yi, energy and intention, you will notice a growing emphasis on overcoming not their body, not their techniques, but to transform their energy and intention. There are times when perhaps a mercenary and their combative arts are best for a situation, and there are times when something more forgiving and potentially healing, can create the outcome that we really hope for, inside. Thanks for sharing your viewpoint! Sometimes we need that reminder. 😀🙏
love love love your vids are just getting better and better everyday
Thanks to all of your support and motivation! 😃🙏
Great Example of the "Grasping Sparrows Tail" in sinking and flying... Thank You !
You are quick to recognize the movement! Thank you! 😃🙏
I will certainly be signing up for that Yi mastery class! That’s about where my formal training ended so I’m sure I will learn a lot there
I would love for you to learn a lot, because you already know so much and have such good intentions for yourself, I look forward to the good you bring to your world as you grow even more. When you master Tai Chi even more, what kind of experiences will you be having, that is even better than now? 😃🙌☯️
@@phoenixmountaintaichithank you for your kind words! All I really want to do is put out good and loving energy into the world and I’m certain this course will help me with that :)
Yes! Good and loving energy for the world! Love it. 😁🙌
Man, I want to train with you guys some day. Moe seems really cool, he asks great questions and "gets it quickly". Wish I lived closer.
He is very cool! When you visit we'll train and then take you to some dimsum! 🥡😋
@@phoenixmountaintaichi hoooboy that sounds awesome!
Very helpful teaching. Interesting that the first move of the form shows the floating yang and sinking yin!
Exactly! They really understood this and put it there for us.
@@phoenixmountaintaichi we just have to find it! Thanks
Subscribed! This is a great channel.
Thank you! Welcome to our community! 😃
So good. Thanks for sharing. 🙂🙏🏼☯️
Thank you very much for your kind comment! 😃🙏
Thank you so much for your answer Master, it's always a very accurate and educational explanation, I love it....I wish you lived in France ;) ...Take care of you ☯☯☯🙏🙏🙏🐝🐝🐝🌳🌳🌳
Thank you! France sounds totally fantastic and I'd love to visit! If you or anyone you know would be interested in helping me plan a seminar, email me and let's make it happen! 🙌🙏
Do you create sinking by internal stetching? Or do you you make an internal cirkle? And can it be done by sending the energy to your elbow?
Your video's are very helpfull in understanding! Thank you!
I understand that other masters use those terminology and they may totally work in the context of how they do it. I have enjoyed watching presentations about internal stretching and such. In this method I showed, you maintain a state of emptiness and comfort, which means not stretching, while you allow yourself to experience sinking. When you touch someone's fascia you can transmit this state of sinking, and they will experience it with you.
Regarding the elbow, no special action is done in these presentations involving the elbow. In Neijin Mastery's teaching of Rollback, you will see a discussion about rolling back their Yi to your elbow. This is the Yi, their intention, and not their energy.
My recommendation is to maintain purity of a method so that terminology and intention doesn't get mixed up in an unhelpful way. If you are working on an internal skill of another school and they do something a certain way, master it just in that way, to the extent that it actually works. And when you want to accomplish what I show here, do it just this way while leaving other skills behind until you have a clear mastery of this.
You know already that a full cup can't be filled and you are definitely not having that problem. Consider too then, if you fill a cup that's still got 25% something else, what kind of weird brew might you end up with? And wouldn't a pure properly made beverage be wonderful? Thanks for asking and participating in our fun online community! 😃🙏
Good video! I found it was a progression from outputting during Peng to having rollback contained inside Peng, mainly gained from having no intention on touch, also using the mind to guide the flow from them to me (bypassing the contact point), which created emptiness at the point of contact and enables borrowing to occur powering your moves and returning the energy back …. All born from sinking and separating.
All happening at once.
I find when you have that quality, it creates a kind of floating, seizing reflex in the opponent, at which point you have him.
That's extremely well stated! It sounds like a lot of steps and a lot of things happening at once, and it is, and that's why gradual practice building upon the skill one component at a time, is so helpful to assembling the complete and effective method.
Some of the really key things you said are "no intention at touch", "using the mind (Yi) to guide the flow" and "creates a kind of floating, seizing reflex in the opponent". Good job on your understanding and thank you for sharing! 😃🙏
Hello
Is there any hope of you coming to Europe and do a seminar soon? Did you at some point took this option into consideration? Online courses are much appreciated but to experience something in real life and to have feedback from someone with your experience on what one could be doing wrong is a different thing all together. Also I find it that when training because you want some kind of confirmation that you are not wasting your time and something is actually happening, one might at some point just imagine a result and not actually obtain it.
I totally agree with you about the value of hands on experience and getting confirmation that you are on the right track! The online courses have a lot of partner work to improve that aspect as much as possible. While in person we can experience and learn so much in a short amount of time. So I would love to come to Europe for a seminar! If you or anyone you know might be interested in helping me plan one, email me and let's see what we can accomplish! 🙌😃
Great teachings learning a lot from you Sifu thank you, I practice meditation and it’s fascinate to grasp all this concepts how deeper layer consciousness or your inner qi can be influenced into someone else just by staying in your blissful state, truly amazing stuff looking forward for the classes.
Question: Are they classes on RUclips the same as on the web or it’s more in depth teachings.
Thanks you for the great content 🙌🏻😃
That's great that you practice meditation because that will be helpful in helping you to silence the noise and become aware of the deeper and more subtle layers you work with in Tai Chi as an internal and spiritual practice!
The courses are very detailed, each one having 30+ in depth lessons on elements of the topic. They also differ in that I give drills to practice alone or with others, and meditations to deeply and fully ingrain the skills. Sometime of the RUclips videos are clips from the fundamental, or particularly interesting and beneficial topics from the course that I would like as many people to generally benefit from as possible, while the course is much more detailed and structured for people who seek a deep and complete mastery. Thank you for asking! 😃🙏
Great video thank you!
Thank you for enjoying the video! I love these topics and are grateful there are people that find it interesting along with me. 😁🙏
As usual excellent teaching and very educational...when we train we discover the functioning of our body and it is fascinating...Taiji opens the door to another world. What can affect the quality of peng? Can Peng fluctuate in the body ? and is there a link between Peng and the Yuan Qi ? Have a nice day.
Peng is the result of harmonizing the Yin and Yang flow of Qi. Qi comes from the Source in a state of Wuji and differentiates into Yin and Yang. Harmonizing the flow of Yin and Yang establishes a potential, an emptiness through which Peng and other qualities arise. This is a training that we begin in Song Mastery and continue through Neijin Mastery.
Yuan Qi is an energy closer towards physical reality, like vitamins, for our vital energy system. And just as good vitamins can make an athlete healthy, so can Yuan Qi make a Taichi master healthy and energetically vibrant. And just as vitamins are not what primarily forms the skill of a football player or a gymnast, nor is it the primary focus of the Tai Chi techniques. Aside from that, we definitely want to take care of our health as best as we can, both physically and energetically! Cheers! 😃
i've watched videos about connecting to fascia, including the other channel that you recommended. what i don't get it, how can you connect to the training partner's fascia when they're aggressive like the one in this video, or in wrestling or sumo practice?
and do you connect their force to your fascia, or is it risky because that way, they can control your fascia?
Yes when you connect to their fascia they are also connected to your fascia. This is not really different from any other situation in combat though. It's like if you grab someone, they can also grab you. If you get in range to knee someone they can also knee you. What matters is that you are more skilled and familiar with the situation than they are. And that is where practice comes in to make you a master of what you choose to engage in, is it not?
Their aggression does not make it difficult to connect to their fascia. It actually makes it easier because their force and the fascia that conducts that force becomes more apparent. It takes training to be able to do this quickly, and under pressure, and that is what training can help you accomplish right?
I technically know how jet fighters work, you lock on the target and fire the missile, but I am definitely not going to be that good at doing it if you throw me in a plane haha. Good news for Tai Chi is that when it comes to fascia, the Fascia Mastery course is designed to take you from a complete beginner and to lead you through a series of drills that will make you totally capable of connecting with fascia in increasingly challenging and higher pressure situations! I hope that clarifies some of your questions! Thanks for thinking through all of this and asking them! 😃🙏
Thanks again Sifu for another excellent teaching video. Just curious what topic would be the next (4th) master class program?
Great question! The next topic is Neijin Mastery, internal force mastery. Specifically Neijin is what the Yang family calls the eight energies of Peng Lu Ji An, Cai Lie Zhou Kao.
You will learn to apply the float and sink, clockwise and counter clockwise rotation, and gather and release from Qi Master, along with shifting your and your partner's intent, to completely manifest these eight energies for push hands, form, and combat.
Beyond the eight energies you will learn the Jin fans, not literally physical fans, but the strategic mental constructs that Yang Jianhou's lineage used to apply the eight energy in combination and in an agile and lively way. This is an inner door secret that they transmitted very rarely and carefully, and it's totally cool to apply because of how fluid it makes your taichi feel!
Neijin Mastery should release in 6-8 weeks. And meanwhile the better you are at Fascia, Song, and Qi Mastery, the easier it'll be to immediately learn the 8 Neijin methods. Thank you for asking and for your support! 😃🙏
Two questions (sorry this is so long):
1.) Regarding the peng donut--is this describing the flesh, like say I got punched on the chest, would it be my actual chest skin and meat moving upward and my actual core moving downward? Or is it more describing the movements my hands make, more upward the further they are from my body, and more downward the closer? Or is it my weiqi moving up around me and down through me? Something else?
2.) How does this sinking relate to the fascia manipulation taught in earlier videos? Are we to connect to the fascia after the folding Jin?
For the Peng donut, that's my metaphor for the Yin and Yang energy flow that establishes the Peng effect. Your skin does not actually move upwards, I have not mastered becoming a snake haha. This video explains it more, and it's explored in great detail in Qi Mastery and the upcoming Neijin Mastery!
ruclips.net/video/fuliU4FUw_E/видео.html
2) During fascia mastery training, you gain an awareness of their fascia that you almost always connect to, from a conscious level until it becomes unconsciously automatic. Because Fascia is where their energy and spirit all intersect and function. So it is extremely advantageous for you to master it and to build upon it to influence Qi and intent.
Interesting questions and I'm sure other people wonder similar ones, so thanks for being the one to ask! 🙌😃
@@phoenixmountaintaichi I think it is very thoughtful of you to allow a payment plan for your courses, that makes them a lot easier to access. Your website doesn't say if they're weekly or monthly payments. Would you mind clarifying that, please?
@@nathanielbrundige5982Oh! They are monthly! Thanks for pointing it out!
@@phoenixmountaintaichi thank you! I'll be subscribing later this week. Off to bed, I've got training to do in the morning.
@@nathanielbrundige5982have a great week! Looking forward to you becoming part of the next generation of Tai Chi masters! ☯️😁
A new thing I recognize is “Don’t predict next step of the opponent”, just “Aware, keep Silently to feel the energy, force from the opponent instantly “
Is that right?
Thanks 🙏
That's totally helpful, because when you predict, anticipate, you're no longer present , no longer engaging and responding to your real opponent
When you are inside your head, fighting with your predictions, and hoping for reality to match your imagination, how quick and natural will your response be? So your insight is totally spot on. Well said! Thanks for sharing. 😀🙏
@@phoenixmountaintaichi Oh, thanks sifu 🙏
Your sharings blow my mind ✨ so much :)
I love Taichi and I intend to apply Taichi to my kid's soccer like "Taichi kicks" 🤩
Can you share something about "Taichi Kicks" 🙏
@@kennosunioHaha nice! I highly recommend this movie called Shaolin Soccer. It's very fun and motivating and is a great source of Tai Chi and kicks haha.
@@phoenixmountaintaichihaha I did that, that movie’s so interesting and motivating 😅😅😅
@@kennosuniothe ending is pretty much my dream ha ha! 😃
oh boy
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What if he really doesn't let you sink him and he actually really fights you back!?
Physical resistance doesn’t really stop this kind of technique. A beginner perhaps would be stopped by this but it’s not the resistance that’s stopping them, it’s the fight pulling them out of the correct mindset that this technique relies on.
Trust me when I say I know how nonsensical that may sound to you, I felt the same way when it was explained to me, but then my teacher did it lol. You just have to experience this, you cannot get anything from just watching. You gotta find someone who can do this and have them do it on you, it’s the only way.
Hi! If someone has the skill and centering so that you are not about to immediately sink them, then before you succeed, you will maneuver them into a position where they are over committed and mentally off balance where this becomes viable.
It's like how you learn a judo throw or wrestling takedown and sometimes you can just do the move and succeed and sometimes you have to set them up and make use of the right opportunity.
In these demos I have the luxury of knowing where and when my partner is attacking. Otherwise, you will need to know that, but such skill can come with practice and experience so that's okay right, is it not? And once you do, and you look back to consider a technique like this, what is inside this technique, that is more than the techniques you had known, but aligned with what you want to achieve in any way? Aside from what you already understand, what growth would help you know more, that you can begin to understand in a totally helpful way now? Thanks for continuing to watch and comment on this channel! It's nice to have a different view point and voice! 😃🙏
@@LiShuBenthat's extremely well said "it's the fight pulling them out of the correct mindset that this technique relies on" ! You understand this very well. 🙌😃
"What if they do XYZ instead. . ." is the most common thing an instructor runs into. Doesn't matter if it's esoteric Tai Chi skills or MMA jab hook takedown combo. Everybody asks about other scenarios. The answer is always "this is what I'm teaching right now, this is today's lesson". Be patient. Always consider the bigger picture and how what is being taught is part of the fight, not the whole fight, but if learned and understood it can make your whole fight better.
@@nathanielbrundige5982Well said! Very true about keeping an eye on the bigger picture along with details of what's being expressed at the moment. I tell my students that we are like construction workers learning to use our tools as best as we can, hammers, screwdrivers, drill, and for now let's get as good as we can at it each tool, so that when it comes time to put it all together, we have great tools and great familiarity with them. And then we'll really be able to build something fantastic! Thanks for commenting! 🙌😃
"Yi mastery" sounds like ba-gua angles of the circle...
You would be right to think that there is something similar in the sophisticated use of Bagua to lead and misdirect people, aside from that, Yi in Yang Family Tai Chi is more about influencing intention than optimizing geometry. Both are really deep internal arts though! Thank you for commenting, I appreciate it. 🙌😀
Strategy is guided by goal. If your goal is to subdue your adversary face down on the ground, you might grab a wrist, throw them while holding the wrist, and twist the wrist into a hammer lock and sit on them. Once you have a hold on them, it is usually a bad idea to let go and give them another opportunity to attack you.
There are many other goals, e.g. administering painful injuries, breaking bones, killing them, etc.
My problem with this demonstration is that I don't see a rational goal that it serves, beyond possibly dissuading an incompetent attacker from continuing. The problem with this goal is that with just a little more competence, or just a good trick, or just good luck, they could use the 2nd chance they are given to do you harm.
You never know how competent an attacker is. Most real-world attackers have done this before, and so they have some experience, and you have NO idea just what that experience might be.
Indeed, there are techniques like Drunken Sailor Kung Fu, where people pretend to be incompetent to mislead their opponents.
Can you fit your techniques into my world-model as described above?
Thanks .
Steve
Hi Steve, thank you for an excellent analysis on practical considerations in a real hostile situation! You are totally right about the wisdom of keeping control and maintaining any advantage you have accrued. I often tell my students a bird in hand is worth two in the bush! Or wrist in hand, as you say. 😃
You are right that the demonstrations I show here are I am letting them go free more than I would prefer to do in a hostile conflict. And I think you are definitely experienced enough to see, aside from the casual demonstrations I show, how will you continue the techniques into a submission or finish, without letting go, in ways that I didn't show but are totally compatible with your skill set? Because you sound very experienced as well as open minded, and thoughtful, all signs of someone that can really understand and figure things out.
How would I fit this into your model? If I have the opportunity while they are off balance and immobilized, I like to follow these setups with joint locks and takedowns and submissions. And it's helpful and important that I indeed don't let go, to maximize the control during all of this. If the timing is limited, perhaps a strike or a clinch and await a better opportunity.
I'm planning on some videos to illustrate Tai Chi's strategy, and goals (I like your phrase, strategy is guided by goals) to combat. Right now we're still laying the foundation so people will understand the tool kit that we use, before we start discussing the blueprint that puts together, how Tai Chi fights. Thanks for opening up this discussion with your analysis! I appreciate it. 😃🙏
Aren't most real-world attackers domestic abusers? At least that's a common scenario where most people would want to avoid escalating or harming the “opponent”. You also have medical professionals potentially needing to subdue patients, and so on. I'm not sure your world-model is complete.
@@sashaboydcomthat's a really good point! One of my students always say "I wish I knew this Tai Chi stuff for that drunk uncle at every family reunion" and we would laugh. One day I asked if that is a real person or like a figure of speech, and he said, real person haha. So you're totally right to remind us of all the different scenarios!
As we get more into the Qi and Yi, energy and intention, you will notice a growing emphasis on overcoming not their body, not their techniques, but to transform their energy and intention. There are times when perhaps a mercenary and their combative arts are best for a situation, and there are times when something more forgiving and potentially healing, can create the outcome that we really hope for, inside. Thanks for sharing your viewpoint! Sometimes we need that reminder. 😀🙏
Yikes. Step away from instruction!