An Introduction to Yiquan
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- Shifu Seb Morgan, a direct disciple of Shifu Eduardo Cussatti and Grand Master Tung Kuo Tsao, who at seven was already a student of Wang Xiangzhai, explains the basics of Yiquan.
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I do Zhan Zhaung, I used to go to the Lam association in London, haven't been for a few years, but still do it every day, I am motivated to push myself a bit more with my practice at the moment. Yiquan/da cheng chaun is amazing, I have seen demonstrations of it, I want to get to an advanced level in it.
Great news! Another Yiquan warrior on the way... 🤜✋
@@yiquankungfu ha ha! Well maybe one day, at least I have done it religiously every day.
Appreciate the skill and the upload. I used to study Taikiken under a direct disciple of Kenichi Sawai and the Zhan Zhuang (Ritsuzen) stance is very well explained. Cheers
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Perfectly explained, simple enough for complete beginners and super clear, thank you so much.
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"Hold the Ant" - Love it.
Great video on how, I'd enjoy knowing more about the 'why' of the various exercises and postures you showed.
Wonderful! Thank you very much!!
Great! Want more!!!
A truly beautiful introduction to Yi Quan. You've provided a perfect foundation for what i hope will be a rewarding journey through Xingyi Quan. It's just what I needed.
Thank you - Glad it helped 🙏
Thank you so much! Now you've put it all together for me. I'm familiar with several practices, even including one healing method. But you now just explained (partly) the basics of WHAT IT DOES.
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I tend to think of "external" training, "wai gong" as training to develop muscle and bone strength and to generate power through muscular force, speed and momentum whereas internal training, "nei gong" works to develop the breath (qi), nervous system (intent) and tendons as the way to issue power (fa jing) . Even exercise physiology talks about nervous system training/fatigue and neuro-muscular recruitment as important elements in strength, so this is not as esoteric as it sounds at first glance. Nerve impulses, action potentials, are basically bio-electric energy, which sounds a lot like qi to me.
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Great explanation and intro! Thank you for this. Can't wait to see more on zhan zhuang.
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Really like your stuff. First time i got an explanation of the mental work that has to be done in zhan zhuang that makes sense. Thank you. Looking forward for other videos from you.
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Thank you !
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Muy interesante y muy claras tus explicaciones, tus ejemplos, y tú Inglés. Dan ganas de tenerte por profesor.
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It is a very good introduction with its adequate explanation, I hope soon a second part.
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@@yiquankungfu *Love your videos..🇮🇳💜*
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I read in a book years ago about Ki and Aikido finding the dan tien in the lower abdomen many years ago. I traveled by bus to another state for a lesson. I learned more in 5 minutes of hands on training than years of reading. That slight leaning to the front is key and the hips forward. Great teaching. I heard 3 toes each foot grabbing 2 relaxed? Relax the big toe and 2nd toe? Ty
Thank you William. I haven't heard about the three toes... Worth looking into. All the best
learned yiquan mainly from yao chengrong in beijing wuguan. very appreciate your presentatiion. yiquan, one of the most genious internal arts, my experience after 20 years in taiji and other internal arts...
Thank you for your message Hendrik - If you are Yao Chengrong's student then you are my brother because we come from the same family. I salute you Hendrik and it is great to connect!
More power to you, Seb! XXX, Wally
Thank you Wally! xxx
Thanks for sharing, Master Seb Morgan, interesting warm up exercises, I have been practicing Yiquan for some years now but I did not know some of these exercises, you certainly must have met Luis Quintana who was a disciple of Master Tung in Argentina. I hope that you keep sharing your wisdom as in spite of the distance & the lack of physical proximitty there is always a lot to be learned, keep the good work1 Cheers!
Thank you Carlos. I certainly have... Growing up in Argentina, the Yiquan crowd was small and we all learned from the same source...
All the best. mate!
@@yiquankungfu Master Seb Morgan, could you please tell me which are the main differences betwen your lineage's Yiquan & that of say the Yao's.? Is it in some way more related to the Han's family style? Sifu Luis teaches quite a lott of Xingyi apart from Yiquan, five fists, Santi shi etc,,which the Han's do as well but which you will not find among other mainstream lineages. I apologize if my questions are inappropiate but as I have been learning mostly on my own I ignore a lot of things. Thanks again & sorry for any inconvenience
@@carlosroji4144 Thank you for your question. I teach what I learned directly from Shifu Cussatti and Grand Master Tung. I can only do this, and have never trained with masters from other disciplines, mainly because when I came across them (and I've seen many) I always saw the gaps in technique or sometimes the flaws in how they taught. I may now be too close to the source or too bought in to one technique which may not be what most want but after 33 years of training and over 25 years of teaching, plus many years of other body-related, non-martial disciplines like yoga and dance I have an understanding of movement which gives me a strong foundation for discerning. Having said that, you need guidance. You need a teacher of some kind to give you this. But you also need to find it. This is why the warrior path starts with seaking. You can only train on your own after enduring years of guidance. This is what makes you a good martial artist. Not if you win every tournament or can beat everybody up around you. It all comes down to what kind of person you are. Always the "how", never the "what".
Xing Yi Quan is parent to Yiquan so many practices come through. We do a lot of staff practice which comes from there but mostly zhang zhuang, shi-li. motsabu, fali, tuishou and all training related to these...There is also a big portion of the training that comes from Shaolin but these two disciplines (internal and external) complement each other greatly. Thanks again and keep it up. It's all part of the path.
@@yiquankungfu I appreciate your kind & sincere response to my questions, I totally agree that one needs a good teacher & physical guidance , otherwise one will eventualy make lots of mistakes, loose time & will end up having a distorted understanding of the Art. I am a purist, I hope this adjective makes sense! & I have always strived to get to the source of things, not only pertaining to the Martial Arts & I am concerned with obtaining the purest & most reliable teachings available. Not being a member of a lineage per se allows me perhaps to perceive a wider spectrum of things but at the same time does not allow me to have certainty, a tangible root, Eventually I will have to make a choice. My problem is that there is, to my knowledge, only one Yiquan Academy in Mexico City, 500 Kilometres away from the place where I live so I am forced in some manner to rely on books & videos. I seek Martial arts not only as a means of self defense but also as part of a Spiritual endevour & from the get go I was attracted to Yiquan's enphasis on yi & the internal & not on Forms, ,,,Please continue to share with us whatever you consider important teachings, I assure you that they have brought a clearer understanding to many like me , even from a distance. I wish you a Merry Christmas & lots of blessings, Thanks PD please forgive my English
@@carlosroji4144 Your English is excellent, my friend. I perfectly understand what you mean. The path you are on, regardless of what it is you do, is clearly one of becoming more aware and within this seeking of clarity you may discover the path moves you instead of you it. Let it do so, for within this new acquired knowledge lies the future wisdom of the evolved being. Merry Christmas!
Is Yiquan techniques similar to *64 Hands Techniques* in internal Martial arts
Bagua Zhang (or Baguazhang) is also included within the internal martial arts but in my limited experience of it, I would say it is more like a combination of Shaolin and Tai Chi Chen style with its internal aspect, and using the circles and circular motion of displacement and hand movements more in a Shaolin way. I think if any two martial arts come close to Xing Yi Quan and Yiquan, they are the ones commonly grouped within the internal martial arts (Tai Chi and Baguazhang) but I would say Yiquan is the one with the least amount of external movement when it comes to its practical use (not the training).
@@yiquankungfu Got you.. thank you..👍
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Dobar video.
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More about yoga and thats about not being the body or the mind plz
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Thanks, Seb!
Very interesting information about Yiquan.
I'm training this method about one year from 10 min to 40 min per day, I mean Zhan Zhuang practise.
I'd like to know more about this internal practise.
There are at least three main Yiquan's lines- Yao Chenzhun, Yao Chenguan and Tsui Zhuibin (sorry for possible wrong spelling). What is Your line of teaching/training?
What do You think, how much time is enough to practise every day?
Thanx&best regards,
Valeriy, 41, Russia.
Hi Valeriy - Thank you for your message! Great to hear that you are training Yiquan. You surely already have noticed the benefits. My lineage is Wang Xiangzhai, Tung Kuo Tsao (佟国藻), Eduardo Cussatti. I come from a British Army family and grew up in Argentina, where Tung had emigrated to in 1981. Tung had learned with Wang from a very early age until his early 20s and surely Yao Zongxun (father of the Chengguan and Chengrong) was always a part of this. What I learned was part of what was named the Ta Chen School by Tung, taught by him and his daughter Patricia and continued by Shifu Eduardo Cussatti in Buenos Aires and it is the same direct line, down from Wang and Yao.
You practice as much as you can, mate... There is no time limit. We used to do 90 minutes of zhang zhuang at times. If you discover the boundaries of pain in your body and break through them, you'll see how much more resilient than you think, you are... All the best! SM
這位英國教師對於內家拳與外家拳的理解，很到位。
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I hope you teach your students much more than that and if not I hope you are still learning so that one day you may.
Of course Civil… it’s good to see you’re not going around CZcams watching one video and thinking that’s all people know…
Thanks a lot for this.
Question. What is the position of the spine above the lower back? Does the spine need to be like a
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I use lower line to represent lower back and upper line to represent upper spine. Triangle is head.
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That's a good question, thanks!
The human spine has natural curves called Lordosis (at the top cervical and lower lumbar) and Kyphosis (in the middle Thoracic and Sacral (hip) section) - We have 7 cervicals, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral and 4 in the coccyx. They are all counted (weirdly enough) from the top down and the last two groups are fused together and form part of our hips.
When we go into the Zhan zhuang (or Chan Chuan) position, we try to straighten our spine as much as possible. (So more like your last drawing). By slightly bending our knees and rotating our hips forward we try and make our lower back flat (or straight), then we straighten the middle and top by opening our shoulders and slightly pulling outwards with our scapulas (shoulder blades - like a cobra) and pulling upwards with our heads (with our chin slightly down) as if we were hanging from the sky by a thread. Once we are in this position and as straight as we can get, we come forward 1 degree, controlling this angle with the front part of our feet. I know it is difficult to follow by reading or in video. This is why I don't like online teaching. You need to have someone correcting your posture when you do it. Hope this, at least, helps.
All the best!
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@@yiquankungfu I can understand the opening shoulders and pulling Scalpula, but the 'suspending the neck from the sky' part is a bit confusing to me.
I usually curl the upper torso a bit forward, but that could a bad habit.
Just need to stand more I guess.
One more question:
What is the general position of the neck? (circle equals head, straight line equals neck area from collar to back of head)
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(I've not seen a backward tilting neck but mgiht as well ask in case)
@@fis-tarts Hi there, the idea is to try and get your whole spine as straight as possible (without overdoing it, of course). It should be in a comfortable straight, upward position. This includes the neck, which is part of the spine. Once you have done this, then you move the whole spine in one block slightly forward (1 degree). The hanging from the sky analogy is so that students or practitioners don't lift their shoulders, which is a common thing to do. Shoulders should be down and at the same time slightly pulling outwards to make your back feel like a cobra, if that makes any sense...
Hope it helps!
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@@yiquankungfu it did, thank you for indulging my questions.
I hope to join you in training one day.
Is this the same place that Iain Abernethy teaches? 😄
No.. but it could be
I am so sorry for you. To have spent so much time studying and end up nothing worse than nothing.
Well… nothing is a great place to be at…
Sounds like you're projecting your own internal dialogue.
@@yiquankungfu Great talk! Ultimate goal is to become nobody.
great is the silence and the body of light....
Too much strictness in the forms for a natural formless art actually.
Also too much imagination instead of intention.
Also I see a lack of the physiological explanation behind the art.
Sorry to say, but this video is useless for introduction to Yi Quan science 😔
Your opinion, on the contrary, is very useful. Thank you for it. 🙏