Beyond Root and Structure: Discover Tai Chi's Power of Yi Intention
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- You understand the importance of alignment and structure. You may have diligently practiced rooting to receive force. And you would be right to suspect that while these things are beneficial, there is more to Tai Chi's Internal Power beyond these external elements.
We take a situation where we have very little root and structure: sitting on a rolling stool with the feet off the ground. Discover how Fascia Mastery allows you to borrow their force, and how Yi Mastery allows you to control their intention, no root required!
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Is this Old Six Roads Yang style? Did the teacher learn in Beijing?
Yes old six roads, you have a good eye and are very knowledgeable! You had a lot of great videos on your channel. Do you practice Xingyi primarily?
@@phoenixmountaintaichi Yes i mainly practice Shanxi xingyiquan, however am v interested in taiji also. I am looking for a good Old Six Roads teacher in Beijing, can you recommend someone?
Sifu, couple of questions please!
1. I'm slightly confused. How did you redirect his intention? Didn't you just move his hands away from your centre? He was pushing hard towards you even when you redirected so his intention seemed the same...?
2. Also, I've seen with aikido and Tai Chi that sometimes, all you need is to intend something and the body just instinctively knows what to do in many situations - I think it's like the visualisation concept. What do you think?
Amazing videos. I've seen your channel progress so much. Well done.
Thank you for watching my growth on this journey of learning to teach and share 😃
1. To redirect intention, we have to quiet our mind and our own intention. It's like how sometimes you have a conversation with someone, but they're very concerned about something and they keep talking about it, and between their words you try to say something and you can just tell they are not hearing what you want to say? Or the other way, you were so concerned about communicating something just right, that you were focused wholly on yourself, without noticing what their body language or speech is revealing?
Yi work is like this. Our monkey mind has tons of thoughts, anxieties, fears, angers. These things are noisy in a way that absorbs our awareness. Once that quiets, you begin to perceive what people really want, really mean, really will do. Its like how when you are fully happy, content, fearless, then everything seems so obvious, easy, does it not?
Once you perceive Intention, you can then influence it. Just like you can't convince someone verbally about something unless you know what they're concerned about. In this case, I am moving the Target of their pushing intention from my body, to my hand. Hence they commit their weight and effort to my hand. This is an advanced skill that I wanted to give a little glimpse of, but one can understand the logic beneath the action. Can you imagine that?
2. About visualization and the body follows, yes, when your mind quiets, and your body can easily heed and follow your clear intention, then it can do so naturally and expressively. The greatest actors and actresses do this, they set aside their own personality, habits, thoughts, and become the character they visualize and express. Does that make sense?
@@phoenixmountaintaichi makes much more sense! Thank you Sifu!
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Connor does 10th planet jiu jitsu just like me! That’s cool that there are jiu jitsu practitioners that are open minded to these concepts.
Yes he does! He studied at several places and settled there as his favorite gym. His top loyalty is actually to BJJ and he's always trying to see if he can counter my Tai Chi Jedi tricks with his training ha ha. I'm totally grateful for these open minded and dedicated students and training partners!
This was a great way to show this, very imaginative. Can tell it isn't 'fake'.
Thank you! We are probably not good enough as actors to fake this ha ha. I look forward to sharing more demonstrations to help people understand and appreciate both the practical and the esoteric aspects of Tai Chi!
Thanks for demonstrating amd discussing the two different techniques. That really helps to clarify.
I like Connor's reactions and descriptions. It makes it so real (which it is of course). He really platered you there at first...lol! It illustrated the huge difference in results.
Well done and thank you!
Haha thank you! Connor is great because on one hand he totally trusts that I can deal with it no matter what crazy thing he does to me. On the other hand, his true love is BJJ not Tai Chi, so he not-so-secretly wants to see if he can overcome my Tai Chi Jedi mind tricks lol. When you combine these two mindsets of his, hilarity happens! I'm grateful for such a sincere and skilled practice partner! 😁🙏
Yes, finding a good practice partner is my biggest challenge! I like the laughter too.
@@InternalTaiChi Yes! We should all aspire to be so joyful ha ha.
Next without body contact :-) (it works, no joke)
I will work on that. There will probably be more footage of me flying through the air the along the way. 😆
A Jedi mind trick this is :-) Another great video Chester. Thank you!
Thank you! I wanted to share something advanced, but also kind of fun ha ha. Next video will be the Tai Chi vs stand-up grappling! 🙌
Fascinating demo!
Thank you for your comment!
we want this course!!!
It's coming! Based on the enthusiasm and feedback I received from the Fascia Mastery course, I've decided to dedicate myself to putting up our complete set of Tai Chi curriculum online! You will learn through it a whole year of dedicated instruction like you would in person, and takes you all the way to advanced Yi and Fascia work along with Energy and Shen work. That means, after completing the course, anyone will be able to demonstrate the internal work of Tai Chi as shown by the masters. (Just a bit slower at first.)
The tricky part is helping your learning be effective and efficient online, but I've mostly solved that in the past few months, especially with the help of the questions and feedback from the Fascia course online! And for the student, their part is to find practice partners! So I hope this and other videos can motivate people to practice Tai Chi together.
I look forward to a new generation of real Tai Chi practitioners with a new level of profound internal skill. I hope to see you among them soon! 🫸🤛😀
just amazing !
Thank you! My hope is that one day not too far in the future, you will all be able to do this too! 🙏🙌
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I want to open our minds up a little to what could be possible, that's just a little beyond our usual experience, and totally within your reach! Because Tai Chi is really deep and amazing when you begin to see it all. And how can these concepts be valuable, beyond martial arts and fun demos? Cheers! 🙌
@@phoenixmountaintaichi Thank you for making all those concepts more accessible to the World and especially to Westerners. Language can definitely be a major obstacle, but as you've already pointed out before, culture too, as some concepts have been given metaphorical names that don't mean much to us.
This concept of catching the partner's intention is similar to what I've been learning from Mikhail Ryabko's school of Systema via Vladimir Zaikovskiy, although I have yet to fully understand it and be able to reproduce the phenomenon consistently.
Your way of teaching has definitely caught my attention over the past few months as you offer to teach similar concepts through a slightly different filter, and I think it's a good way to get the bigger picture. Kind of like in that story where blindmen are asked to touch different parts of an elephant to figure out what it looks like.
Thanks again! I look forward to learning more about Yi.
@@phoenixmountaintaichi As to how these concepts can be valuable beyong martial arts, I think you may come to those arts because you want to develop your martial skills, but odds are you will stay for deeper reasons. In my case, I know that internal work does not work if I don't bypass the animal reaction, anger, fear, and so on.
Destruction is easy. Anyone can beat someone up out of anger. It may even provide some sick kind of relief upon doing so, but it will definitely bring tons of problems upon you: lawsuits, vengeance, and having to live knowing you're behaving like a bad person.
I think that in the internal arts we try not to break the person but rather their desire to hurt you. They made a mistake. We make mistakes too. Maybe you had something to do with it, consciously or not. Maybe the've had a bad day. Maybe they are a great dad, mom, brother, sister, or friend to other people and they just so happen to have completely lost it in this situation. Who are we to "punish" them by breaking them physically just because "we know martial arts?" Most fights happen over stupid reasons and because someone with an attitude wants to be right.
So that's what I like about internal MA when it comes to defending yourself. You first try to avoid those situations, you try to not take things personally, and you choose your enemy more wisely, aka the bad intention rather than the person.
Then on a deeper level, you get to know yourself and how you infuse your daily life and relations with those skills and concepts.
Even as a dad to a 3yo, those skills help me.
I still get tired and angry at times, of course, but certainly not as often as I would if I'd only practiced "external" arts.
I think it just makes your life easier, thus benefiting everyone around you.
@@CharlesEBusa Absolutely! When something is deep and vast, it's easy for each person who experiences to come away with an unique, but valid perspective. I do admire the teachings of Mikhail Ryabko! I think it's easily misunderstood or overlooked but there is a real wisdom, and real kindness within him, if one takes the time to look. I respect everyone's perspective and value each person's wisdom, and I think that encompassing spirit has helped me to share and helped my audience understand. We'll definitely be talking more about Yi in all the content to come! Thank you for sharing!
@@CharlesEBusa Beautifully said! The real enemy is the intention, not the person, not the person's weapon, not the person that made that person. Because if we resolve the intention, the conflict goes away. I think this is the meaning of the Japanese concept of the Life Giving Sword, that strikes down and ends conflict without killing.
I want to add that, I am also a father to a 3 year old! And this is where Internal martial arts has profoundly impacted my life too. Because no matter what he's saying, or not saying, what he's doing, or how he is emoting, because I am able to understand his intention, I can communicate with him, help him, or guide him in a way that is genuinely meaningful, joyful, and loving for us. It's probably the most beautiful experience I have as a result of this internal practice. We also have really fun rough play, pushing, pulling, tumbling, and I'll credit that to martial arts too! So you're very right, life is easier, and benefitting everyone around you. :)