If you sit in a chair, you can stretch the fascia in the toes and feet with a relaxed flex combined with breath work. Thanks Armand. You're really great!
Doing this already felt so much better for the knees. But It’s very hard to feel the feet and ankles at first. Nice suggestion to begin without the arms here
Sorry for the late answer. The thing with Tai Chi is that it’s all about opening the joints first. Creating space in the joints activates the elasticity, the fascia. Without this stretch Tai Chi will be external. Meaning it will be just movement. Hope this helps.
4:32 moving to the front leg only for convince, not to create extra power. Did i get it right? Thank you for the lesson, i did get pain in the knees doing forms 45 minutes, emphasizing on the horizontal movement.
Glad it helped. Bad knees are common in Tai Chi because of the horizontal. I’m not really sure what you mean by ‘only for convince, not to create extra power’ though. Maybe you can re define?
@@ChiSkills the force comes from up and down, not going horizontal. But you change legs position just to get that force out, without emphasizing the horizontal movement, right?
@@nikolayordanov3115 yes it’s up and down. I am guessing that you mean changing leg position is going from the back leg to the front leg, am I right? It has to do with the martial aspect of it. At least as I learned it. It has to do with touching someone’s base, their root, then rolling your centre under theirs, destabilize them and throw them. That’s where the changing from the back leg to the front leg happens. I will make a video about basic stepping to show that. I hope this helps, correct me if I have misunderstood you. English is not my first language. Thanks.
@@ChiSkills yes ... I think this might be an important video for you to make as it can be confusing when people think they have to throw their mass to effect a push, as opposed to releasing the stretch. And how to do it.🖖
My pleasure! Same thing really. Start with opening of the joints of the spine, the hips gently pull on the spine. Feel how that gently stretches the tendons and how that effects the joints and stretch in the legs as well. Keep that openness when you go into the squat. It's subtle. Hope this helps! Thanks and good luck.
If you sit in a chair, you can stretch the fascia in the toes and feet with a relaxed flex combined with breath work. Thanks Armand. You're really great!
Yes Tony, for sure! Thanks for the kind words!
Thanks so much
You're welcome!
Thank you very much.
You are welcome!
Doing this already felt so much better for the knees. But It’s very hard to feel the feet and ankles at first. Nice suggestion to begin without the arms here
Awesomeness.
Could you expand on this? I know it suppose to be simple but as a beginner everything is complicated.
Sorry for the late answer. The thing with Tai Chi is that it’s all about opening the joints first. Creating space in the joints activates the elasticity, the fascia. Without this stretch Tai Chi will be external. Meaning it will be just movement. Hope this helps.
4:32 moving to the front leg only for convince, not to create extra power. Did i get it right?
Thank you for the lesson, i did get pain in the knees doing forms 45 minutes, emphasizing on the horizontal movement.
Glad it helped. Bad knees are common in Tai Chi because of the horizontal. I’m not really sure what you mean by ‘only for convince, not to create extra power’ though. Maybe you can re define?
@@ChiSkills the force comes from up and down, not going horizontal. But you change legs position just to get that force out, without emphasizing the horizontal movement, right?
@@nikolayordanov3115 yes it’s up and down. I am guessing that you mean changing leg position is going from the back leg to the front leg, am I right? It has to do with the martial aspect of it. At least as I learned it. It has to do with touching someone’s base, their root, then rolling your centre under theirs, destabilize them and throw them. That’s where the changing from the back leg to the front leg happens. I will make a video about basic stepping to show that. I hope this helps, correct me if I have misunderstood you. English is not my first language. Thanks.
@@ChiSkills yes ... I think this might be an important video for you to make as it can be confusing when people think they have to throw their mass to effect a push, as opposed to releasing the stretch. And how to do it.🖖
@@dingosmith9932 cool, I will do that. Thanks Dingo!
Really well explained. Thanks Armand!
Thank you Ron! All the best from Holland.
Thanks can you explane how to use this in kua squat
My pleasure! Same thing really. Start with opening of the joints of the spine, the hips gently pull on the spine. Feel how that gently stretches the tendons and how that effects the joints and stretch in the legs as well. Keep that openness when you go into the squat. It's subtle. Hope this helps! Thanks and good luck.
@@ChiSkills thank you👍🏻