it is not "air" - true - yet somewhat can inflate the fascia with it. It behaves like air, magnetism and electricity but is not any of those yet involves those...the Chinese word/character of ch'i is the vapor coming off cooked rice so the implication is something like "steam"--something from heat and pressure...his exposition is practical and good though thinking of ch'i as moving in the postures can be a detriment to actually learning and doing them--which then produces the sense of ch'i...I am glad he said "it is not a metaphor" as there has been much confusions about this...
it is not "air" - true - yet somewhat can inflate the fascia with it. It behaves like air, magnetism and electricity but is not any of those yet involves those...the Chinese word/character of ch'i is the vapor coming off cooked rice so the implication is something like "steam"--something from heat and pressure...his exposition is practical and good though thinking of ch'i as moving in the postures can be a detriment to actually learning and doing them--which then produces the sense of ch'i...I am glad he said "it is not a metaphor" as there has been much confusions about this...
Great explanation!
That makes absolut sense