How to practice Taijiquan

How to practice Taijiquan

Practicing strength is one of the core purposes of Taijiquan set practice. The so-called strength is the processing and sublimation of force, and it is the result of the optimization of the process that force originates from foot, originates from leg, dominates the waist, passes through the spine, and travels to the finger. My teacher, Mr. Tian Qiuxin, said: "The practice of the routine is the process of optimizing the intermediate links from the pivot point to the landing point". The pivot point is the source of strength, the landing point is the point of strength, and the intermediate links are the links of strength. Here is how to practice Taijiquan, welcome to browse.

The practice of strength, my personal experience is summarized in three stages: first seek to merge, then seek to whole, and finally seek to loose soft.

The first stage: first seek to merge.

According to Master Zhaxi, "When the bones are right, the strength will come." Our "Harmony" is to constantly optimize the high degree of coordination and unity of bones, fascia and muscles. The three external harmonizations (shoulder and hip, elbow and knee, hand and foot) mainly reflect not only form harmonization, but more importantly, strength harmonization, and, moreover, strength harmonization is the dominant one, which should be paid special attention to. Therefore, when practicing the fist frame, especially pay attention to deal with the relationship between bones, fascia and muscles.

First of all, we must constantly optimize the bones, so that they are on the best mechanical structure. When people use their limbs, they tend to rely on the principle of how easy it is to use, using the bones to support the body weight and free the muscles from pain, and over time, the formation of a "lazy" habit of relying on the bones. For example, when we stand for a long time, we will habitually support ourselves with one leg, puckering our hips and buttocks to free the other leg and foot. When we practice boxing, we need to use the coordination of fascia and muscles to relieve the pressure of body weight on the bones, so as to adjust the bones to the optimal mechanics of the force structure, and not to let the weight of the body become an obstacle to the development of force. This is also the reason why we practice Yang's Taijiquan with extremely strict requirements for external rotation of the hips, the inner hand, and sinking.

Phase 2: Seek Wholeness.

On the basis of the liberation and rational optimization of the skeleton, what is required is the optimization of the effectiveness of the jiejiehuanxian. The feeling of surge and wave at the beginning of the jiejiehuanxian is only the intermediate stage of the exercise, and it is necessary to constantly shorten the time difference between the pivot point and the landing point, so that the foot speaks, the hand responds, and the upper and lower follow each other, and the same in and out. Wushu proverb says, "Kungfu is good to practice, but it is hard to find the whole strength. The whole strength is the foundation of all strength law, shock bomb, shake,崩炸, whip a little without the whole strength, are empty talk.

Xingyi, Taiji, Bagua, all advocate the whole strength. Xingyi spectrum in the "waist quite four tips a unity", Taiji spectrum in the "its roots in the feet, hair in the legs, dominated by the waist, the shape of the fingers, from the feet and legs and waist, always have to complete a gas", Bagua Palm spectrum in the "eyes to the hands to the The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes.

The third stage: seeking pine.

With the whole force, and then seek the pine, from the pine into the soft, so that you can get the mixed one of the Taiji power. Looseness is the method of Taijiquan, not the goal. It is also the advanced stage of taijiquan training must be trained in the law, since the modern taijiquan masters in the pine on the realization of the true power of taijiquan, respected to the extreme. Modern people learn boxing on the first up to practice pine, the result is "loose" a mess.

No square, where the round, no tight, where the loose. Za Lao often said: "loose from the tight, just from the loose in the birth". How to seek, is to deal with and regulate the tightness caused by the pulling long, loose and tight for the toughness. With the toughness and optimization of the inner explosive power, the rigidity, coldness, penetration and thickness of Taijiquan can be trained day by day and gradually enter into the Mixed Power of the Mixed Power of the Mixed Power of the Mixed Power of the Mixed Power of the Mixed Power of the Mixed Power of the Mixed Power of the Mixed Power of the Mixed Power of the Mixed Power. This is the unquestionable method of Taijiquan, which is one, not two. Some boxers in the practice of boxing road, do not understand this point, up to learn what sticky, sticky, even, with, Yin Jin, Yang Jin, broken power, elastic power, Ming Jin, dark power, and so on a variety of mysterious methods, David felt that Taijiquan on a Jin, as if a tree's growth of the trunk, outside of which, is the extraneous branches.