Chimtoo means penetration and Gyeong (Jin) means
internal power. The strike of Internal Martial Arts has to penetrate
through the body. Although a big guy who has strong six pack, the damage
of strike has to reach his internal organs penetrating through his
muscle. Otherwise, even though you learn lots of skills, they would be
useless. Borrow the power from the earth and build internal power. The
skills without power are useless.
Showing posts with label Theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theory. Show all posts
Thursday 26 June 2014
Tuesday 24 June 2014
Shikgyeong
There is a training named "Shikgyeong", which is learning with receiving the master's attack. Whether strike or throwing, you will be able to catch the sense when you receive it. Intermediate trainees must not test it to others. In the case of the intermediates, they cannot control the power when the damage goes into the opponent's internal organs. The experts can control it, so they do not hurt their students but, intermediate students cannot. That is why they use strike shield. Although they use strike shield, expert's strike can reach to the internal organs penetrating through the shield. Shikgyeong is one of the criteria to check their level.
Monday 27 August 2012
Equalize
When you practice Tai Chi, the movement and breathing should be equalized from the beginning to the end.
Thursday 17 November 2011
Tuesday 15 November 2011
Flowing of the energy
Whatever you do,
standing meditation,
pushing hands,
the most important thing is
1st. Feel the energy,
2nd. Follow the flowing,
3rd. Finally, you will be able to control the energy.
standing meditation,
pushing hands,
the most important thing is
1st. Feel the energy,
2nd. Follow the flowing,
3rd. Finally, you will be able to control the energy.
Monday 14 November 2011
Potential power of the energy
Everyone had potential power of the energy and connected with Mother Earth when we were baby and kid.
While we were educated, we had lost it.
Internal energy arts guides the way to go back to the nature.
This is different from “Human Nature”.
Some people are confused between these two.
While we were educated, we had lost it.
Internal energy arts guides the way to go back to the nature.
This is different from “Human Nature”.
Some people are confused between these two.
Wednesday 14 September 2011
Breath with the earth
When the beginners learn breathing, they usually are taught that breath with core, not only nose.
But when the trainee achieved some level, they should breath with whole body.
The next level is linking with the earth and breathing together.
If you link with the earth completely, you can feel the universe is with you.
But when the trainee achieved some level, they should breath with whole body.
The next level is linking with the earth and breathing together.
If you link with the earth completely, you can feel the universe is with you.
Monday 16 May 2011
Link between feet and the earth
In order to link between body and the earth,
you need to find out there are lotus stem under your feet.
It is thin and tough.
Your feet should feel the strength of the stem.
If you can find out the feeling of the specific feeling,
bouncing opponent (Fa jin) would be easy.
you need to find out there are lotus stem under your feet.
It is thin and tough.
Your feet should feel the strength of the stem.
If you can find out the feeling of the specific feeling,
bouncing opponent (Fa jin) would be easy.
Wednesday 11 May 2011
Find out 5 bows in your body
In order to bounce people (fa jin),
you need to find out 5 bows in your body at first of all.
Spine, arms and legs.
When they are formed in your body completely, you can bounce.
you need to find out 5 bows in your body at first of all.
Spine, arms and legs.
When they are formed in your body completely, you can bounce.
Thursday 17 June 2010
Internal Martial Arts need love?
People may think martial arts is only offense enemy and defence themselves.
Of course, it is not wrong.
However, in order to understand well internal martial arts, you need to know love as it works with mind.
Someone may has query why.
When you practice with someone, if you imagine he or she is just an enemy, you may not defeat well.
As you think opponent is enemy who you have to defeat, your mind and body would be nervous.
If you suppose to love the opponent, you can find to control him or her easier although you don’t use big power.
Unless it is mentioned about martial arts, love is important every time, every where and everyone.
Of course, it is not wrong.
However, in order to understand well internal martial arts, you need to know love as it works with mind.
Someone may has query why.
When you practice with someone, if you imagine he or she is just an enemy, you may not defeat well.
As you think opponent is enemy who you have to defeat, your mind and body would be nervous.
If you suppose to love the opponent, you can find to control him or her easier although you don’t use big power.
Unless it is mentioned about martial arts, love is important every time, every where and everyone.
Sunday 23 May 2010
Be passionate and enjoy being flexible
Be passionate in learning the internal martial arts, but you also
have to enjoy being flexible both the mind, heart, soul and your
physical body.
The constant search for answers in the philosophies and theories behind the internal martial arts could stimulate your brain, and making your mind more flexible by bringing in the wealth of knowledge of truth.
A flexible mind is absolute vital in learning internal martial arts. The mind comes first before your force. Before the force strikes, your mind should already be where the force will be landed.
In internal martial arts training, I notice that many beginners were unable to achieve this. They are passionate and excited to learn the new moves, but they are very stiff both in their mind and their body. To start anything fresh, a person must empty their own assumptions of what they think internal martial arts could do and start all over again. It is like emptying a full cup of water, not half-filled, and start from an empty cup. Appreciate everything you learn including the philosophies and theories behind the internal martial arts. If you do not do this, you can be very passionate, but you will remain on the surface of what the internal martial arts could offer.
A good pupil is one that always remains passionate in what he/she learns, and most of all, respect the martial arts teaching, philosophy and rules in the martial arts world. By doing this, not only does this pupil have a flexible open mind, their internal martial arts could be advanced in great depth.
Most of all, when you are learning, you must enjoy being flexible. If you are too serious during training, your body and mind could become stiff, ultimately could damage your “Qi(Vital Energy)”. So you should remove all tensions and nervousness. Enjoy the training, feel the peaceful energy and appreciate the passionate teaching style.
A philosophical saying in Confucius:
“A person who understands it is not better than a person who likes it,
The person who likes it is not better than a person who enjoys it.”
Stay passionate, but enjoy the training.
The constant search for answers in the philosophies and theories behind the internal martial arts could stimulate your brain, and making your mind more flexible by bringing in the wealth of knowledge of truth.
A flexible mind is absolute vital in learning internal martial arts. The mind comes first before your force. Before the force strikes, your mind should already be where the force will be landed.
In internal martial arts training, I notice that many beginners were unable to achieve this. They are passionate and excited to learn the new moves, but they are very stiff both in their mind and their body. To start anything fresh, a person must empty their own assumptions of what they think internal martial arts could do and start all over again. It is like emptying a full cup of water, not half-filled, and start from an empty cup. Appreciate everything you learn including the philosophies and theories behind the internal martial arts. If you do not do this, you can be very passionate, but you will remain on the surface of what the internal martial arts could offer.
A good pupil is one that always remains passionate in what he/she learns, and most of all, respect the martial arts teaching, philosophy and rules in the martial arts world. By doing this, not only does this pupil have a flexible open mind, their internal martial arts could be advanced in great depth.
Most of all, when you are learning, you must enjoy being flexible. If you are too serious during training, your body and mind could become stiff, ultimately could damage your “Qi(Vital Energy)”. So you should remove all tensions and nervousness. Enjoy the training, feel the peaceful energy and appreciate the passionate teaching style.
A philosophical saying in Confucius:
“A person who understands it is not better than a person who likes it,
The person who likes it is not better than a person who enjoys it.”
Stay passionate, but enjoy the training.
Wednesday 19 May 2010
A firm stable foundation ground work is a building block to success
Weight transfer is one of the most important principles in any sports
(such as dancing) and in the internal martial arts (such as Tai Chi).
By doing weight transfer well, it could make your movement more breezy
and flexible.
Tai Chi basic step is very good to catch the feeling of moving weight. This weight transfer is one of the most crucial elements in Tai Chi for all practitioners, as other sophisticated moves are generated from this point. Weight transfer may appear to be easy, but to do it well, it took a lot of time and quite often, people overlooked this crucial element when doing Tai Chi.
However, a well-trained sophisticated practitioner knows well,
“The reason why we practice the basic first is that the foundation work is the utter most important thing, not because it is easy.”
Knowingly, a well-trained sophisticated practitioner’s ability does not built up in a short time frame, it is grounded from doing the basic foundation work over time, practicing, shaping and making its their own 100%. By doing this for a long period of time, they could feel the weight transfer, and be able to control it tightly to their leisure during training, thus ultimately advance their level.
Thus, they always treat the foundation ground work very sincerely, and practice it over and over whenever they are free.
You could distinguish a higher level well trained practitioner from a lower level practitioner by how well they treat and train in the basic foundation ground work such as weight transfer. A low level trainer always treats the basic foundation ground work lightly. They practice the basic roughly as they think it is easy, so anyone can do it. They try to hurry to learn high level skills only. This is impossible as their basic foundation ground work is not stable and firm.
On the other hands, a high level trainer treats basic foundation ground work very important.
The basic starts in an earliest time to build a stronger, powerful stable foundation building block for later advance sophisticate steps to build on top of. We need to think carefully why we want to master the most basic foundation steps first in order to build for later use, not because it is easy to do.
The powerful and stylish skills come from having a firm stable basic foundation ground work naturally.
I request all trainers to practice the basic foundation ground work over and over again, until you can do it very well. Everything comes from building a good foundation ground work in order to succeed. Next time, I will discuss more about weight transfer which is one of the foundation ground works.
Tai Chi basic step is very good to catch the feeling of moving weight. This weight transfer is one of the most crucial elements in Tai Chi for all practitioners, as other sophisticated moves are generated from this point. Weight transfer may appear to be easy, but to do it well, it took a lot of time and quite often, people overlooked this crucial element when doing Tai Chi.
However, a well-trained sophisticated practitioner knows well,
“The reason why we practice the basic first is that the foundation work is the utter most important thing, not because it is easy.”
Knowingly, a well-trained sophisticated practitioner’s ability does not built up in a short time frame, it is grounded from doing the basic foundation work over time, practicing, shaping and making its their own 100%. By doing this for a long period of time, they could feel the weight transfer, and be able to control it tightly to their leisure during training, thus ultimately advance their level.
Thus, they always treat the foundation ground work very sincerely, and practice it over and over whenever they are free.
You could distinguish a higher level well trained practitioner from a lower level practitioner by how well they treat and train in the basic foundation ground work such as weight transfer. A low level trainer always treats the basic foundation ground work lightly. They practice the basic roughly as they think it is easy, so anyone can do it. They try to hurry to learn high level skills only. This is impossible as their basic foundation ground work is not stable and firm.
On the other hands, a high level trainer treats basic foundation ground work very important.
The basic starts in an earliest time to build a stronger, powerful stable foundation building block for later advance sophisticate steps to build on top of. We need to think carefully why we want to master the most basic foundation steps first in order to build for later use, not because it is easy to do.
The powerful and stylish skills come from having a firm stable basic foundation ground work naturally.
I request all trainers to practice the basic foundation ground work over and over again, until you can do it very well. Everything comes from building a good foundation ground work in order to succeed. Next time, I will discuss more about weight transfer which is one of the foundation ground works.
Monday 17 May 2010
Save Jing and Circle action
Yinyang Baguazhang skill is base on circle action.
Because it is faster and stronger than straight line action.
The distance between human and human is not so long in real battle.
Although it is long, 1 meter, even it is short, just several cm.
In order to get an explosive force in this short distance, circle action has more advantage than straight action.
In straight attack, human amplifies the force with running or jump from far away.
However, human just can get a force with pull back his arm or leg in short distance.
But the force is not so fatal
So the circle action is expanding the distance in order to get the force.
For example, when a good elastic metal brim is coiled on a wood, and let it go, you can see the bounce force is quick and great.
The tree’s limbus is not so big, but it is made long distance as it is coiled.
Thus, we can get a destructibility in short distance more than long distance.
The saving Jing posture of Yinyang Baguazhang is the same posture before circle action is disentwined.
The Yinyang Baguazhang force as the circle action is irresistible as its natural force.
In addition, if there is added the internal force,
Any defense has no meaning.
Because it is faster and stronger than straight line action.
The distance between human and human is not so long in real battle.
Although it is long, 1 meter, even it is short, just several cm.
In order to get an explosive force in this short distance, circle action has more advantage than straight action.
In straight attack, human amplifies the force with running or jump from far away.
However, human just can get a force with pull back his arm or leg in short distance.
But the force is not so fatal
So the circle action is expanding the distance in order to get the force.
For example, when a good elastic metal brim is coiled on a wood, and let it go, you can see the bounce force is quick and great.
The tree’s limbus is not so big, but it is made long distance as it is coiled.
Thus, we can get a destructibility in short distance more than long distance.
The saving Jing posture of Yinyang Baguazhang is the same posture before circle action is disentwined.
The Yinyang Baguazhang force as the circle action is irresistible as its natural force.
In addition, if there is added the internal force,
Any defense has no meaning.
Sunday 16 May 2010
Building a stable firm body is absolute
When you begin the journey in learning the internal martial arts,
keep in mind that “It could take up to 3 years to just build a good body
posture.”
Not to mention about having a flexible mind and developing spiritual well-beings, we need to train our body posture and movement to use the correct body system.
This is the utter most basic foundation ground work you must do in order to advance your level.
In the traditional internal martial arts world, we say:
“Be scared the person who has trained only one skill rather than a person who has 100 skills.”
Although you train a lot of skills, if your basic is not good, it is same as building a castle on the sand. It sunk as the foundation collapsed like sand.
Currently, although many are doing martial arts for health,
If you don’t have internal force, it is same as gymnastics or dancing, because it only look good but in practice you could not possibly use if for self defence.
The basic body posture is the most important thing, but many people get bored quickly and wanted to quickly skip it to learn advance steps and skills.
I know many who quitted the dojo when they could not achieve any levels in several months or 1~2 years. These people overlooked the basic fundamental steps. Learning for this short time could only train the bones and muscles. In any types of the martial arts, one or two years training could only develop a basic foundation ground building block in order to get ultimate force in the traditional way.
Not to mention about having a flexible mind and developing spiritual well-beings, we need to train our body posture and movement to use the correct body system.
This is the utter most basic foundation ground work you must do in order to advance your level.
In the traditional internal martial arts world, we say:
“Be scared the person who has trained only one skill rather than a person who has 100 skills.”
Although you train a lot of skills, if your basic is not good, it is same as building a castle on the sand. It sunk as the foundation collapsed like sand.
Currently, although many are doing martial arts for health,
If you don’t have internal force, it is same as gymnastics or dancing, because it only look good but in practice you could not possibly use if for self defence.
The basic body posture is the most important thing, but many people get bored quickly and wanted to quickly skip it to learn advance steps and skills.
I know many who quitted the dojo when they could not achieve any levels in several months or 1~2 years. These people overlooked the basic fundamental steps. Learning for this short time could only train the bones and muscles. In any types of the martial arts, one or two years training could only develop a basic foundation ground building block in order to get ultimate force in the traditional way.
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