Thank you very much for sharing this video. I am really happy with this. It is so often taught wrong. Far too often (also in our club) it is taught that one has to push from the back foot or supporting foot in order to create a push forward while using contraction force instead of internal movement and expansion.
Hvala na dijeljenju.Ja te sve razumijem,a nikada nisam trenirao tai chi.Radio sam u poljoprivredi i otkrio to sve spontano kroz rad sa tradicionalnim alatima...vile,grablje,motika,sekira itd.Jako lijepo govoriš i krećeš se...u skladu. Lijepi pozdrav👋
Hello, @denisbratic1920. Thank you for appreciating my work and for your kind words. Many of the methods in various disciplines function on universal principles of human movement. If one pay close attention to the body and what they feel, one can discover these principles for themselves. Ultimately, that is what evwry training method is, a guide to personal discovery. Congratulations on your own discoveries. Regards, Grant
Most people do not use the legs muscles to lift the leg, hence the need for slow training before fast. I can tell just by the walk, if I'm going to have to pack a lunch. Momentum is the weakness not the strength.
Thanks for another great video. Don't suppose you would do a video, or point me to one in your library, where ou cover folding and opening of the kua? Thanks...
Hello, @greggoodson9082. Thank you for appreciating my work. That's something I'll be going into a lot of detail about in my academy videos. That said, I may make a video that covers kua activation a bit more in the near future - as it overlaps with other requests. In the meantime, I can try to explain a little here. There are a few acupuncture points we use in my school to "create space" in the kua and mobilize it. They include the qichong points in the low abdomen/groin area, which sink inward, backward, and downward; and huantiao on the rear between the femoral heads and sacrum, which expand outward. The net result is a spiraling of the femoral heads and surrounding tissue. This helps to "open" the kua (in the sense of increasing internal "space"). There's more to the alignment of this area, but those are the main points we use specifically for the kua. The inward spiraling motion I described, along with "sitting" the pelvis down into the kuas, deepens the inguinal creases, which is often what people mean when they talk about "folding" the kua. When turning, we rotate the torso using the hip joints. The pelvis should rotate between the heads of the thigh bones (but not move the thigh bones) so that one inguinal crease deepens ("folds") while the other broadens. The broadening of the inguinal area is what is typically referred to as "opening" the kua in regard to generating movement. There is more, of course, but I hope this helps to shed a bit of light on what is meant by folding and opening the kuas. Regards, Grant
@@DarsanaMartialArts Wow. Many thanks, Grant. Certainly a lot more detail than I was expecting in a reply on YT! I think I understand your meaning here, though I suspect I've potentially got the wrong idea, and may be only understood properly visually, or in person. I'll nip over to your Academy pages, and have a goosey-gander Thanks again, Greg
Greetings! I was really interested in your presentation as I don't often see T'ai Chi recognized as a martial art. I have been playing and teaching T'ai Chi (mostly Yang & Sun Style) for 40 or so years as well as engaging, teaching and competing in hard style martial arts (including Jow Ga Kung Fu) for more than 50 years. I'm in the DC metropolitan area, and wondered if you would be interested in having an exchange of ideas and thoughts.
Greetings to you, @pennymartin5770. Thank you for your interest and your invitation to share your decades of experience with me. I am always happy to exchange ideas, though I don't know when I will be able to get out to your area. If you like, perhaps we could schedule a Zoom session. We won't be able to have contact, but we might be able to have a more meaningful discussion that way. You can email me at grant@darsanamartialarts.com if you'd like to explore this further or discuss other possibilities. Regards, Grant
Dear Sir, I understood Taichi as connecting heven and Earth through the body. But your explanation suggests Taichi teaching to float the body between heaven and Earth. Paul,69
Hello, @bajuszpal172. Thank you for your comment. I'm not sure why you feel my explanation suggests "to float the body between heaven and earth." I would agree with your description of Tai Chi being like a bridge between heaven and earth, and I think my explanation is based on that perspective.
Hello, @KingoftheJiangl. Thank you for your comment. The ground is definitely involved in the transfersnce of energy in either case (and there may be some semantics at play here), but there is a qualitative, mechanical difference between what I'm describing as pushing off the ground and what I describe as loading/unloading pressure to and from the ground through the legs using sinking and dantian rotation. It is that difference I am trying to convey in this video. For example, powerlifters are not permitted to bounce at the bottom of their squat attempts because the bounce produces an increased upward spring using the elastic rebound of their connective tissues that would help them get past the sticking point in the squat motion. They are instead required to come to a complete stop at the bottom of their motion, then push off the ground. This is meant to eliminate momentum and show pure strength in the lift. While the bounce does use leverage from contact with the ground, it isn't the same as the act of a lifter pushing off the ground in terms of how the motion is generated. Similarly, sinking and dantian rotation create something like a rebound effect, using the elasticity of the connective tissue. While the force is bounced off the ground, it isn't generated by muscular contraction to mobilize the leg joints in the same way pushing up with the legs does.
Brilliant stuff. So rare to see real understanding of Tai-Chi as opposed to many misunderstandings and fantasies. Thank you.
Thank you for your encouraging words and for following my work, @cesarmaldonado734.
TAI CHI MISTAKES (COMMON)😢
Thank you very much for sharing this video. I am really happy with this. It is so often taught wrong. Far too often (also in our club) it is taught that one has to push from the back foot or supporting foot in order to create a push forward while using contraction force instead of internal movement and expansion.
Hello again, LucVanGael. Good to hear from you. I hope you are well. Thank you for appreciating my work. I am glad you got something out of it.
Thank you, I'll keep this in mind
Thank you for appreciating my work, @nichalausrook2397. Best of luck with your practice.
Hvala na dijeljenju.Ja te sve razumijem,a nikada nisam trenirao tai chi.Radio sam u poljoprivredi i otkrio to sve spontano kroz rad sa tradicionalnim alatima...vile,grablje,motika,sekira itd.Jako lijepo govoriš i krećeš se...u skladu.
Lijepi pozdrav👋
Hello, @denisbratic1920. Thank you for appreciating my work and for your kind words.
Many of the methods in various disciplines function on universal principles of human movement. If one pay close attention to the body and what they feel, one can discover these principles for themselves. Ultimately, that is what evwry training method is, a guide to personal discovery. Congratulations on your own discoveries.
Regards,
Grant
Most people do not use the legs muscles to lift the leg, hence the need for slow training before fast. I can tell just by the walk, if I'm going to have to pack a lunch. Momentum is the weakness not the strength.
Thanks for another great video. Don't suppose you would do a video, or point me to one in your library, where ou cover folding and opening of the kua? Thanks...
Hello, @greggoodson9082. Thank you for appreciating my work.
That's something I'll be going into a lot of detail about in my academy videos. That said, I may make a video that covers kua activation a bit more in the near future - as it overlaps with other requests. In the meantime, I can try to explain a little here.
There are a few acupuncture points we use in my school to "create space" in the kua and mobilize it. They include the qichong points in the low abdomen/groin area, which sink inward, backward, and downward; and huantiao on the rear between the femoral heads and sacrum, which expand outward. The net result is a spiraling of the femoral heads and surrounding tissue. This helps to "open" the kua (in the sense of increasing internal "space"). There's more to the alignment of this area, but those are the main points we use specifically for the kua. The inward spiraling motion I described, along with "sitting" the pelvis down into the kuas, deepens the inguinal creases, which is often what people mean when they talk about "folding" the kua. When turning, we rotate the torso using the hip joints. The pelvis should rotate between the heads of the thigh bones (but not move the thigh bones) so that one inguinal crease deepens ("folds") while the other broadens. The broadening of the inguinal area is what is typically referred to as "opening" the kua in regard to generating movement.
There is more, of course, but I hope this helps to shed a bit of light on what is meant by folding and opening the kuas.
Regards,
Grant
@@DarsanaMartialArts Wow. Many thanks, Grant. Certainly a lot more detail than I was expecting in a reply on YT! I think I understand your meaning here, though I suspect I've potentially got the wrong idea, and may be only understood properly visually, or in person. I'll nip over to your Academy pages, and have a goosey-gander Thanks again, Greg
@greggoodson9082. I haven't posted the content going into detail about the kua and dantian rotation yet, but it is forthcoming
i like how u move ❤
Greetings! I was really interested in your presentation as I don't often see T'ai Chi recognized as a martial art. I have been playing and teaching T'ai Chi (mostly Yang & Sun Style) for 40 or so years as well as engaging, teaching and competing in hard style martial arts (including Jow Ga Kung Fu) for more than 50 years. I'm in the DC metropolitan area, and wondered if you would be interested in having an exchange of ideas and thoughts.
Greetings to you, @pennymartin5770. Thank you for your interest and your invitation to share your decades of experience with me. I am always happy to exchange ideas, though I don't know when I will be able to get out to your area. If you like, perhaps we could schedule a Zoom session. We won't be able to have contact, but we might be able to have a more meaningful discussion that way. You can email me at grant@darsanamartialarts.com if you'd like to explore this further or discuss other possibilities.
Regards,
Grant
Dear Sir, I understood Taichi as connecting heven and Earth through the body. But your explanation suggests Taichi teaching to float the body between heaven and Earth. Paul,69
Hello, @bajuszpal172. Thank you for your comment.
I'm not sure why you feel my explanation suggests "to float the body between heaven and earth." I would agree with your description of Tai Chi being like a bridge between heaven and earth, and I think my explanation is based on that perspective.
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He’s talking about moving your chi around.
Yes the internal stuff is how you practice, but you are still moving by contact with the ground AKA so yes you are pushing.
Hello, @KingoftheJiangl. Thank you for your comment.
The ground is definitely involved in the transfersnce of energy in either case (and there may be some semantics at play here), but there is a qualitative, mechanical difference between what I'm describing as pushing off the ground and what I describe as loading/unloading pressure to and from the ground through the legs using sinking and dantian rotation. It is that difference I am trying to convey in this video.
For example, powerlifters are not permitted to bounce at the bottom of their squat attempts because the bounce produces an increased upward spring using the elastic rebound of their connective tissues that would help them get past the sticking point in the squat motion. They are instead required to come to a complete stop at the bottom of their motion, then push off the ground. This is meant to eliminate momentum and show pure strength in the lift. While the bounce does use leverage from contact with the ground, it isn't the same as the act of a lifter pushing off the ground in terms of how the motion is generated.
Similarly, sinking and dantian rotation create something like a rebound effect, using the elasticity of the connective tissue. While the force is bounced off the ground, it isn't generated by muscular contraction to mobilize the leg joints in the same way pushing up with the legs does.