Improve your Tai Chi; Whole body connection; Body Mechanics for Longevity, and Effortless Strength
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- In this video I am going to Improve your Tai Chi by demonstrating Whole body connection resulting in good Body mechanics for longevity and effortless strength. I am going to demonstrate striking an item with whole body connection versus just using the arm. I then will take you through several deeper levels of improving your Tai Chi and your whole body connection through mind body connection, Qi, Yi (intention) and Yin/Yang balance of giving and receiving.
When we connect our whole body, it improves Qi energy flow, creates effortless strength, and generates good posture for daily activities. This helps to provide longevity, preserving your joints for your lifetime and giving you joint pain relief. By using whole body connections and adding mind body connection, you will gain an overall improvement in your Tai Chi, or taiji. Since Tai Chi, also knows and Tai Chi Chuan, is among the martial arts, it is imperative that we keep certain body mechanics for optimum Tai Chi benefits and power. It is best to learn tai chi with these key principles of whole body connection right from the start. When your body is aligned and you have good posture and whole body connection, you can move better, with greater ease of movement and less strain on your body. You are better able to open your joints, which is called "song" or “sung” to generate more Qi flow, or Chi energy, which helps with healing and health. Whether your kung fu study is Tai Chi, Qigong, jujitsu, aikido, or any of the martial arts, keeping your body moving as a whole will develop more power, more strength and more Qi with less effort.
When I strike the item in the video, I will first teach you the physical whole body connection, which is simple body mechanics and promotes good posture. This in turn gives you good posture, excellent body mechanics for generating power and strength. Then I will introduce you to the mind body connection. I will use Yi, or intention and you see will the difference in the striking power. I will add another component of mind body connection by illustrating the giving and receiving or yin/yang relationship in our body which greatly ramps up the strength and power when I strike the bolster. I will teach you to “song” or “sung” your joints, which in turn also creates more strength, more calm structure in your body mechanics and more Qi energy or life energy.
Throughout the demonstration, except for the first example where I am not using Tai Chi foundational principles, I am not using muscles. Rather we are going much deeper into our skeletal system and utilizing our tendons, ligaments and fascia to create a force that is obviously demonstrated in this video. For private lessons, retreats, workshops and live streaming lessons & classes, please visit me at: www.taichisusan.com
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Thanks for letting me part of your Tai Chi Journey!
All internal martial arts are based on the highest law in physics which is the law of conservation of energy. According to the conservation of energy, energy cannot be created or destroyed but energy can only be transferred or transformed. Tai Chi is about being energy efficient by using the whole body with the mind. Using your whole body conserves energy and be energy efficient.
When a batter swings his bat, the power comes from the rotation of the hip and not just the upper body.
Momentum is mass times velocity.
Even with small velocity, you could create big momentum with big mass (or whole body).
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Austin, YES!! Very well said. Thank you for your insightful comment. I particularly like "even with small velocity you can create big momentum." Lots of good stuff in your comment. Thanks again!
@@austinchoi9802 Tai chi is fantastic! Thanks for explanation my friend
Thank you Susan. Now doing the housework doesn't seem like such a waste of time. 😃
Always a good thing, right!?! 😆
Thanks for vídeos
.I'm Brazilian and so like your vídeos.
I'm pratice Aikido and vídeos help me my pratice at martial art.
You are very welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting. Enjoy your aikido. I have a couple former aikido students in my classes. 🙏👍
@@InternalTaiChi Very Nice teacher!! The Channel on CZcams is so good. There are many vídeos instrutctive. My interesting are videos the yin and yang theory.
@@marcoacosta4thank you. I'll make more videos on that topic.
@@InternalTaiChi thanks teacher !!
Enlighting
Thank you! 🙂
Thank you, appreciate 🙏☯️
You are welcome! Thank you for leaving a comment. ☺️
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for commenting.
Wow ! What a great video !
The visuals , props, ALL made this informative video a
Big 2 👍s UP
Thank you! I had fun making it. BOOM! I almost broke something behind me with the one where I had the expletive. Lol
Great explanation! I always say: 'the whole body is a weapon'. I follow you for a while now. I'm a student of Armand van Middendorp and train with him quite often 🙏
Hi Wesley - I seen your comment on Susan ‘s video - She is an excellent gifted Teacher !
I also follow Armand online and will be going to his workshop in May !
Maybe I will get to see U 👍
Oh how wonderful! Say hi to Armand for me!
@@InternalTaiChi hi Susan , we both left replies on Wesley’s comment on your video a short time ago 😊
@@RobertMcCabe-yt5xs thanks for your reaction. I really can feel Susan is a gifted teacher. That's also why I like to watch her video's. Unfortunately I'm not in the Netherlands in may, because I go to Bali. But maybe we'll meet another time. You can see me in some of Armand's video's, I'm the ginger guy 😅
@@InternalTaiChi I will and maybe we'll meet some day 😃🙏
Nice job. You might consider equating dantien with cg(center of gravity) removes some of the mumbo jumbo for students:)
Yes. I like that idea. I dislike mumbo jumbo and try to promote clarity. Thanks for the suggestion!
Now I know why my body is unbalanced, it's as if it were fragmented!😮
That is excellent insight. With a little practice you can change the fragmentation to more wholeness and connectedness.
@@InternalTaiChi thank you 🙏
It isn't using shoulder joint, how it is whole body movement
Allow me to clarify..it's a good question! What I mean to impart is the body moves as a whole, not individual parts. So the shoulder remains aligned with the hips. As you rotate trunk the shoulders remain fixed, carrying the arms with the trunk but not swinging away from the trunk (like swatting would be separating the arm/shoulder away from the trunk). The goal is to rotate everything as one.
In one of the examples, my arm gets away from my shoulder a bit. That's incorrect. The shoulder remains fairly fixed and in alignment with the hips. Rotate the trunk and you'll get power. I hope this helps. Thanks for the great question!
Should the nose always be aligned in the direction of the dan tien? in everyday life?😢
That is an excellent question. Allow me to clarify. When you are reaching, picking up items, turning, it is best to keep your nose over your Dan Tian to protect your spine. If you practice Tai Chi regularly, it will become a subtle but important habit. For instance, when my puppy starts to play tug of war with me, my spine remains aligned and I do not twist. If I allowed him to twist my spine, I would very likely injure my low back. I'm not suggesting we move around like robots. However, the more we can keep our body connected in our movements, the more joint integrity and longevity, we will enjoy. We will also have more effortless strength in our movements.
In the next video I plan on showing how to use body alignment and body connectedness to pick up a heavy item off of the floor.