When I do this exercise, my knee hurts a lot. Maybe my leg was in the wrong position. Please tell me should my feet be parallel or form the letter V? Thank you!
Your knee should not hurt a lot when doing these exercises. If you're getting the pain there could be a few reasons .Some important points to check for alignment. as you change weight from leg to Leg (side to side) with the knee should be operating as a hinge joint, i.e. it should not be twisting, torquing, or making circles. Sometimes this is difficult to discern from watching a video. The movement action of the knees should be the same as if you were doing a squat. When you were turning, Turn with the waist and allow the knees to follow keeping in accord with the hinge joint action. Before you begin the exercise make sure you warm up, especially hips knees and ankles. Doing a few squats in your warm up will also help to remind the body how the knees are supposed to function for correct alignment. For the silk reeling exercise The feet are not parallel, they should be splayed outward slightly. Forget the hands for a minute and make sure that you can move from side to side comfortably without pain in the knees then add the hand back into the movement. The movement should be challenging, it should work the legs pretty hard, but there should not be any acute pain. If you have acute pain while doing the movement you should stop the exercise. It's difficult to give specific advice without seeing you demonstrate the exercise. I hope the tips above will help you to reduce pain and improve your alignment. Let me know if any of the suggestions above helped you. Cheers.
Very good explanation. I need a favor from you. How do we shift weight during silk reeling? Some video explains that shifting is arch to arch not side to side of legs. If possible make a video that explains wight shifting in detail. Thank you very much
That's a great questions. Will do a a video in the near future. In the meantime... The best way to shift weight correctly is to move your center first and let the center lead the movement. The center should be the boss. Move your center from side to side without allowing any up or down movement and this alone will make a big difference. The transition of the weight is gradual. Every muscle, tendon, joint, down to individual muscle fibres should be working at all times. You will probably feel the quads, glutes, hamstrings more than anything else, but when done correctly the entire leg from hip to toe will be activated with the intensity evenly spread. Check out the drawings by Anthony on this link brisbanechentaichi.weebly.com/skill-knowledge.html I think you will find them very useful and enlightening. Aim for feeing the weight of the entire body go down into the sole of the foot. Pressure under the foot is a good indication of sinking weight. If you have trouble sinking the weight into the leg focus instead on making the other leg become empty, the result will be the same in that the opposite side will become full by default, but it is a handy way to trick the body into doing what you want it to do. Hope that helps and thank you for the question. 🙏
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Thank you, Colin.
When I do this exercise, my knee hurts a lot. Maybe my leg was in the wrong position. Please tell me should my feet be parallel or form the letter V? Thank you!
Your knee should not hurt a lot when doing these exercises. If you're getting the pain there could be a few reasons .Some important points to check for alignment. as you change weight from leg to Leg (side to side) with the knee should be operating as a hinge joint, i.e. it should not be twisting, torquing, or making circles. Sometimes this is difficult to discern from watching a video. The movement action of the knees should be the same as if you were doing a squat.
When you were turning, Turn with the waist and allow the knees to follow keeping in accord with the hinge joint action.
Before you begin the exercise make sure you warm up, especially hips knees and ankles. Doing a few squats in your warm up will also help to remind the body how the knees are supposed to function for correct alignment.
For the silk reeling exercise The feet are not parallel, they should be splayed outward slightly. Forget the hands for a minute and make sure that you can move from side to side comfortably without pain in the knees then add the hand back into the movement.
The movement should be challenging, it should work the legs pretty hard, but there should not be any acute pain. If you have acute pain while doing the movement you should stop the exercise.
It's difficult to give specific advice without seeing you demonstrate the exercise. I hope the tips above will help you to reduce pain and improve your alignment. Let me know if any of the suggestions above helped you. Cheers.
@@CenterLifeBalance I keep my knee from twisting. It's not hurt any more. Thank you very much♥️
Very good explanation. I need a favor from you.
How do we shift weight during silk reeling? Some video explains that shifting is arch to arch not side to side of legs. If possible make a video that explains wight shifting in detail.
Thank you very much
That's a great questions. Will do a a video in the near future. In the meantime...
The best way to shift weight correctly is to move your center first and let the center lead the movement. The center should be the boss. Move your center from side to side without allowing any up or down movement and this alone will make a big difference.
The transition of the weight is gradual. Every muscle, tendon, joint, down to individual muscle fibres should be working at all times. You will probably feel the quads, glutes, hamstrings more than anything else, but when done correctly the entire leg from hip to toe will be activated with the intensity evenly spread.
Check out the drawings by Anthony on this link brisbanechentaichi.weebly.com/skill-knowledge.html I think you will find them very useful and enlightening. Aim for feeing the weight of the entire body go down into the sole of the foot. Pressure under the foot is a good indication of sinking weight. If you have trouble sinking the weight into the leg focus instead on making the other leg become empty, the result will be the same in that the opposite side will become full by default, but it is a handy way to trick the body into doing what you want it to do. Hope that helps and thank you for the question. 🙏
@@CenterLifeBalance
Thank you very much. For a prompt reply.