The Beginner's Tai Chi Walk
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024
- The Beginners Tai Chi Walk is a great place to start learning Tai Chi at home. It's the first thing I was taught by my teachers in China - and that was after I'd already studied Tai Chi for 10 + years in the US.
This video is about a basic Taiji (Tai Chi) skill (also called Jiben Gong) is the Basic Stepping or Taiji walk. This one is in the Yang style - a great exercise for Beginners (and advanced as well!).
Want to see how it all comes together? Watch this video of the Yang style 24-movement form: • Beautiful Demonstratio... .
I really like the way you explain the different steps of the walk. I will try to start learning the walk tomorrow using your lesson. Thank you very much!
So nice to come back to this simple exercise with such good instruction. Thanks, DDR.
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Go to a class with lovely teacher but she thinks we learn just by following her. Thank you for breaking it down logically. Am now practising daily and its making sense.
Iain - I really appreciate all the teachers out there sharing Tai Chi! I've made breaking down movements my specialty though, to help supplement their teaching. So glad you found the channel - please browse around because I've got a lot of other lessons here.
Thank you. I have been skipping part 3 for 10 years despite having 4 different teachers. This is so helpful!
I've got even one MORE piece for you, that I didn't include in this video (too much detail is sometimes just overload). On part three, before you begin to bring the back foot forward, it PIVOTS on the ball of the foot until the knees are both pointing in the same direction. THEN step up and so on. I'll be making another video where I talk about that part as well - but for now THANK YOU for watching. :-)
Thanks for the additional detail. I am working with not flowing yet but it will come. I would love to see the new video. :)
Thanks, as always, for the great content! Just so you know I recently purchased your "Essentials of Tai Chi and Qigong" Great courses program and loving it!!
I like what I see! Clear explanation and, more importantly, visual repetition. I'd like to have a numbered sequence of your videos so, as a beginner, I know where to start and which video to watch next. Thanks!
+Cynthia Rucker Thanks for the great suggestion. I've been shooting a lot of video lately, and haven't started uploading them all yet. I can certainly give them numbers or arrange them as a more-or-less logical sequence. :-)
I am Francis Chan from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Your video on parting horse mane is some very in-depth and clear. I shall be following your future video. Bravo keep up the good advice. Deeply apppreciate. Hope to see the entire Yang 24. Thank you. Cheers!!!
+Hartamas Tai Chi Hi Francis - thank you so much for the nice comment! I actually have a whole course on the 24 form on Udemy.com - You might want to check it out. Just look for Tai Chi Made Fun and Easy.
First thing that came to mind with the title was a 1/4 mile Brush Knee "race".
"Who will come in last and talk the gold?"
It was very helpful and inspiring, David. Thanks a lot for sharing. I loved the piano tune.
Hi!! I will be going on the Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage in Spain where I walk for about two weeks. I have no pain, nor injuries, but thought this might be interesting to stay mindful. Thoughts?
What a wonderful adventure! If I were going, what I might do is pause every couple of hours and do a little Tai Chi as a re-set of mindfulness. The Pilgrimage is meant to be like an extended labyrinth walk - or two-week long Tai Chi session - every step a journey in mindfulness. But wow! that takes more stamina than most humans actually have. So a re-set allows us to be human - to be distracted, to get tired etc - but then come back to the inner path again.
@@DavidDorianRoss wow. can't thank you enough for these words.
@@DavidDorianRoss If I did not reply to this I am so sorry. I LOVE what you wrote and will keep it with me to remember it's ok to be human! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
I enjoy your RUclips stuff because your allways so clear to me! TY
Thanks ... clearly expressed and demonstrated. Motivated to practice regularly.
Thank you so much! Do you have a teacher or group of friends to practice with? That also sometimes helps keep me motivated. We have free classes that we offer daily - it's a very nice group of people, streaming in from all over the world. You would be welcome any time you'd like to visit. :-)
"Jiben gong" translates as "Basic skills" and in this context refers to the many fundamental exercises that are the precursors to Tai Chi Chuan, not just this movement, which is "Ma Bu" .
Actually, this is not Ma bu - perhaps you just forgot. You know, Yang style Tai Chi does not really employ Ma Bu. This is Gong Bu. But I maybe that's what you meant. You know, this is an old and pretty awful video. I didn't have a very good camera, no microphone, and I had not sat down to learn any editing skills at that time. If you want to have a good time finding out if I really know anything about Tai Chi, you should really watch the more recent videos - they're a darn sight more watchable than this one. Try this: ruclips.net/video/M8-L6himp6Y/видео.html
Dave, my typo.
I meant to type "Mau Bu", which is "Cat Walk".
I'm not questioning what you know about Tai Chi.
Yeah, there is really no "Ma Bu" ("Horse stance") in Tai Chi these days.
You seem to have a pretty good grasp of what's going on.
My typo, this is not "Ma Bu" (Horse stance), it is "Mau Bu" (Cat Walk), as I pointed out in another response, below.
Excellent. Thanks a lot
Hello David, I have just subscribed to your channel, and it looks as though it will be very helpful to me. I am 70 years old, and just starting Tai chi lessons, But I have balance issues which are impeding my progress. I trust that balance will improve as I persevere. Do you have any extra tips for improving balance? Thanks in advance for your consideration. Don Martin
Hi Don, Welcome - glad to meet you! So glad you're starting to learn Tai Chi. A couple of things to remember about your practice - and it relates to your balance question as well. First of all, remember that you always do your Tai Chi with the body you brought with you... TODAY. Some days you feel more balance, strong or flexible... somedays you don't. Just go with the flow. All your improvements happen the more you practice - so find out what gives you the most joy, and consistently practice that. And finally, I offer free online classes - LIVE, not recorded - six days a week. I'd love to invite you to join in - just go to taijifit.net/sign-up. Hope to see you in class!
Very interesting, thanks for all your video´s. Very glad I found them. Since very long, I have a video with you performing the morning Tai Chi on a beach. Fantastic video. But the video didn´t inform who it was giving the instruction. And just few weeks ago by chance I discovered your chanel here on youtube and recognised that is was you who was giving that morning Tai Chi.
This is great for understanding the body alignment and position in Tai Chi and working on balance. Thanks DDR. 👍
Roger - you are welcome Sir. I always say that even simple things - like walking - can be broken into even simpler parts. That's one of the big Aha's I had in China.
I am new to this and enjoy walking so you made a very interesting video for me.
+Jim Bertolet Thanks Jim! If you're interested, we have free livestreaming classes online daily at taijifit.net. Come join us any time. :-)
I was taught by Chinese Nationals here in NYC.
This is basic, fundamental stuff, it's called "Mau bu", or "Cat walk" (Māobù) (猫步).
There is also a backward "Mau bu" which I was taught.
U.S. "teachers" have little to NO experience with REAL Tai Chi Chuan, it took you 10 years to find that out.
William Palminteri That’s so awesome that you learned some Tai Chi from Chinese nationals in NYC. I also learned from Chinese nationals in PRC.
Much of the "Americanized" Tai Chi is pretty watered down, just dance moves at this point.
I'm glad I get to study with old timers from "the other side".
Awesome
Where's the damn pianist ??
very good david you have learn the taichi tgxs
3:50 hole body turns as a unit,you stick the palm of feet to floor and the to turn you twist your knee broo,the palm need to turn toowith the knnee,we put qur knee out to walk and thats the wrong walk,to walk properly hips do all the job for everything,not the knees thats why we get fucked up from knees,thats why when going up the stairs knees start to click click
Welllllll - you are correct that the knees should not be twisting. But in fact in Taiji the leading edge of the movement is not the hips, it is the Yao - the part of the body we typically translate in English as "waist" but which actually specifically refers to the low back. The rest of the body generally turns as a unit along with the Yao - although each specific movement does this differently. And yes - there is a foot pivot that goes along with the transition, but I can't tell from your comment where you are trying to say that happens. In any case - always great to see someone interested in Tai Chi and paying attention! Thanks!
Obrigado por assistir o vídeo.
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Having fun!
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I want to like this video but the piano track is so distracting from the demo, it feels counterproductive.
Good info if the music was quieter or even better, absent…
For me the jazzy piano distracts from the heart and soul of chi walking
Get rid of the stupid piano noise.
Yes - we all hate the piano music. :-)
Wow! It doesn't get any worse than this. You've just given 21,000 viewers some of the worse so-called taichi I've ever seen. This is not only wrong, it's really bad. Holy shit!
Hey Seb thanks for your comment. That's awesome! Please post your own video here to demonstrate the proper way. Thanks in advance!
No. You are so far from actually understanding taichi that no video will help you. Find a real teacher and quit selling garbage to the uninitiated is my suggestion.
But, I will give you one clue...knees. See if you can figure it out yourself.
Well, thanks for your comments! When you feel confident enough to share your expertise on video - you know, so that everyone can see what you're talking about - I for one would be delighted to see it!
No. Duty of care to your students and to your unsuspecting viewers is your responsibility not mine.
At the very least, learn (and teach) to open kua and keep a line between toes knee and hip. Who knows, maybe you will save some older and more vulnerable folks a costly and painful trip to the hospital.
Either that or...just re-dub the sound. pfffft.
If you teach a seminar when I am in LA area, I will try to make it. Let me know if you are ever in Tucson, send me a message on my RUclips channel, maybe we can meet there.
For now...over and out.