Excellent video, thanks for sharing. I did aikido for many years, great for intention, awareness and connection. I was amazed at how much Zhang Zhuan improved my practice and went on to focus on Taijiquan and over the last decade qigong. There are 5 core stances in Zhang zhaung (including the metal pose/#2 shown here). It’s great for meditation and energy development. This pose also helps abdominal breathing by putting a bit more emphasis around the mid dantien. The other 4 core zhan zhuang stances have different effects and a great variation is to do the stance facing 30 or 45 degrees to one side (nose, centre kind and toes of the front foot all facing the same direction and 90%+ weight on the back leg).
So true … it gets boring until you start feeling the feeling when standing correct .. My teacher from hebei who taught me baji, pigua, hebei xingyi, tongbei jibengong and of course zhang zhuang … I only don’t notice you create an “egg” in your shoulder … also I noticed my hand is a bit turned to the inside like I hold a tin of coke …that’s how we hold our hand because that way there is also a circle between your fingers .
Excellent, definitely need more content around this.
More to come!
@@kungfuronin Love it, not many explain the buoyancy/being alive part so some people just get stuck and the footwork is being very heavy.
You explain the concepts so well!
Thank you!
Excellent video, thanks for sharing.
I did aikido for many years, great for intention, awareness and connection. I was amazed at how much Zhang Zhuan improved my practice and went on to focus on Taijiquan and over the last decade qigong.
There are 5 core stances in Zhang zhaung (including the metal pose/#2 shown here). It’s great for meditation and energy development. This pose also helps abdominal breathing by putting a bit more emphasis around the mid dantien. The other 4 core zhan zhuang stances have different effects and a great variation is to do the stance facing 30 or 45 degrees to one side (nose, centre kind and toes of the front foot all facing the same direction and 90%+ weight on the back leg).
Great content, man! Xingyi and Zhan Zhuang content is so rare and underrated on TH-cam! Liked and subscribed. Looking forwarded for more Xingyi.
Much appreciated!
So true … it gets boring until you start feeling the feeling when standing correct ..
My teacher from hebei who taught me baji, pigua, hebei xingyi, tongbei jibengong and of course zhang zhuang …
I only don’t notice you create an “egg” in your shoulder … also I noticed my hand is a bit turned to the inside like I hold a tin of coke …that’s how we hold our hand because that way there is also a circle between your fingers .
This is a very basic introduction….maybe I’m holding a small egg 😏
Love your functional explanations!
Thank you!
Great video! I'm really enjoying these!
Glad you enjoy it!
Excellent!
Glad you liked it!
Great intro video, I think everyone can benefit from standing practice 🙏
Absolutely!
Love this! Really strong. Liked and followed. Do you plan to do a 'getting started' Xing Yi course?
Planning to! But a bit lazy haha
Have you ever tried qi fa stuff?
Few chinese Acupuncturists can do that.
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I wish I could learn these martial arts
You can! Find a teacher !
Start today
@cagemachine2492 these are not offered where I live
@iii___iii i cant imagine there isn't tai chi
@cagemachine2492 yes, but it's the meditative "healing" tai chi, not the combat version
So does the buonancy create peng ?
Kind of. Peng is both something you develop yourself and something you develop to sensitivity to another persons power. So you need push hands!
Floating! Air bending!
Tai chi is water bending ! But I guess xing yi would be earth.
Waiting for wing chun
It’s coming !
@@kungfuronin southern praying mantis Kung fu too
taichi is not about muscle...otherwise it does not make any sense.....放鬆