Thank you Marcus I work with Owen and Chris at Boulder Internal and Mindful Integration. Many a lesson is handed off by them from you. Again thank you.
Thanks Andrew. Let me know what the streaming thing is about if you can.. I'd probably be up for it.. or any questions I can answer for you here. Let me know.. Do you also practice Sun Xingyiquan?
@@marcusbrinkman3066Streaming is some kind of online skype broadcasting. Sort of online chat. You can name the topic of discussion or discuss any other things. We can ask you the questions typing in the dialogue window. Yes, it takes time and sometimes tiring. Sometimes I do Sun's basic Five fists. But unfortunately I don't have a teacher.
I'm curious about two major subjects from this point in your teaching, if you wouldn't mind talking about one or both. The first is how fire and earth build on the previous three elements/tigers. I hope you're willing to illustrate or at least explain those methods. My second curiosity is what principles can be learned from the five tigers and applied to the other animals so that I could have five dragons, five horses, five chickens, etc. Thank you so much for taking the time to receive questions. Your patience and willingness to share previously is the only reason I am so bold in questioning.
San-ti-shi’s (Three Body Posture) is designed to parallel internal martial arts underlying cultivation concepts and practice. San-ti-shi’s structural components.. Chicken foot, Dragon waist, Bear shoulders, Tiger head, Eagle claw and Tiger pouncing … are designed in effect to promote a half step, (moving style) microcosmic orbit (xiaozhoutian). On a practical level this entails articulatory communication between the lower back gate and upper back gate. This reciprocal opening and closing of the lower and upper back gates interface with Tiger neck and Dragon waist mechanical concepts. In combination with Chicken foot the opening and closing of the lumbar and cervical gates combine with the half step. The foot is really like a third gate. The upper and lower back gates open and close in unison with the step. The unified function of Dragon waist, Tiger neck and Chicken foot operate as the core of each of the “Five Element Fist”. Xingyi practitioners always hear, “hanxiong babei” (hollow the chest and pull up the back). This adjustment reminds a student to stay midway between these two parameters.. of Bear shoulders and Tiger neck, while standing in “santishi” but in executing the movement of an elemental fist, they represent a range of motion between the two extremes as the movement and power of the body as pulses between hollowing the chest/pulling up the back. (This is important point in Tiger) Lastly, The eagle claw must also open and close in unison with the opening and closing of the 1)back gates, 2)the pounce, and 3)hanxiong-babei. Tiger in particular, emphasizes this hanxiong/ babei aspect coordinated with the winding/close and unwinding/opening of the claws,. Anyway..I'll get to some other aspects of your question..sometime during Chinese new year here..
@@marcusbrinkman3066 Thanks for expanding on these subjects. I'm excited to see that there is more coming down the road. Your presentation on the back gates has helped my practice in innumerable ways already. I even use it when I swing Indian clubs now. I hope you enjoy the holiday and wish you good fortune in the new year.
I just edited my last message, lots of little errors, I missed before I sent it out.. gotta turn off my "spell check function". Anyway, a little follow up, in regard to your last question (My second curiosity is what principles can be learned from the five tigers and applied to the other animals so that I could have five dragons, five horses, five chickens, etc. . There are two answers IMO, ...1. the Five Element correspondences operate like a grid, applied in differentiating or identifying patterns, in a synthetic manner. So, in that context, 5 Elements can be applied to differentiate the direction, source of power, alchemical relationship, etc. of all of the Xingyi animals, that being said;. 2). such 5 Element correspondences as such, have not been encoded ( in any concrete form) that I'm aware of. Nonetheless, it seems to be a conceptual viewpoint which in most cases, is universally applied. There are a number of different grids which apply to the Five Element family of relationships, therefore, it is common as well, for practitioners to understand the elements and the animals according to a "yin yang" or "three basin" differentiation, or in terms of.. rise, fall, drill and overturn, wherein all of the forms apply these core energies, but in various degrees and types of circuitry.
@@marcusbrinkman3066 So it would seem that I would be better served applying 5 elements theory to understanding the existing animal forms rather than trying to build variations of each. Thank you for the clarification and helping to focus my practice. I hadn't considered how the three basins might be applied to the elements or animals, though. That's another interesting subject. Thanks for your patience with my questions.
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Thank you Marcus I work with Owen and Chris at Boulder Internal and Mindful Integration. Many a lesson is handed off by them from you. Again thank you.
Hello Tyson, good to hear from you.!
Looking great, Marcus!!
Yo..Aaron.. saw a few pics of you on facebook recently! good seeing you!
Great! What do you think about stream with answering the questions? Discussion?
Thanks Andrew. Let me know what the streaming thing is about if you can.. I'd probably be up for it.. or any questions I can answer for you here. Let me know.. Do you also practice Sun Xingyiquan?
@@marcusbrinkman3066Streaming is some kind of online skype broadcasting. Sort of online chat. You can name the topic of discussion or discuss any other things. We can ask you the questions typing in the dialogue window. Yes, it takes time and sometimes tiring. Sometimes I do Sun's basic Five fists. But unfortunately I don't have a teacher.
Great teaching as always.
Thanks Scott!
I'm curious about two major subjects from this point in your teaching, if you wouldn't mind talking about one or both. The first is how fire and earth build on the previous three elements/tigers. I hope you're willing to illustrate or at least explain those methods. My second curiosity is what principles can be learned from the five tigers and applied to the other animals so that I could have five dragons, five horses, five chickens, etc. Thank you so much for taking the time to receive questions. Your patience and willingness to share previously is the only reason I am so bold in questioning.
San-ti-shi’s (Three Body Posture) is designed to parallel internal martial arts underlying cultivation concepts and practice. San-ti-shi’s structural components.. Chicken foot, Dragon waist, Bear shoulders, Tiger head, Eagle claw and Tiger pouncing … are designed in effect to promote a half step, (moving style) microcosmic orbit (xiaozhoutian). On a practical level this entails articulatory communication between the lower back gate and upper back gate. This reciprocal opening and closing of the lower and upper back gates interface with Tiger neck and Dragon waist mechanical concepts. In combination with Chicken foot the opening and closing of the lumbar and cervical gates combine with the half step. The foot is really like a third gate. The upper and lower back gates open and close in unison with the step.
The unified function of Dragon waist, Tiger neck and Chicken foot operate as the core of each of the “Five Element Fist”. Xingyi practitioners always hear, “hanxiong babei” (hollow the chest and pull up the back). This adjustment reminds a student to stay midway between these two parameters.. of Bear shoulders and Tiger neck, while standing in “santishi” but in executing the movement of an elemental fist, they represent a range of motion between the two extremes as the movement and power of the body as pulses between hollowing the chest/pulling up the back. (This is important point in Tiger) Lastly, The eagle claw must also open and close in unison with the opening and closing of the 1)back gates, 2)the pounce, and 3)hanxiong-babei.
Tiger in particular, emphasizes this hanxiong/ babei aspect coordinated with the winding/close and unwinding/opening of the claws,.
Anyway..I'll get to some other aspects of your question..sometime during Chinese new year here..
@@marcusbrinkman3066 Thanks for expanding on these subjects. I'm excited to see that there is more coming down the road. Your presentation on the back gates has helped my practice in innumerable ways already. I even use it when I swing Indian clubs now. I hope you enjoy the holiday and wish you good fortune in the new year.
I just edited my last message, lots of little errors, I missed before I sent it out.. gotta turn off my "spell check function". Anyway, a little follow up, in regard to your last question (My second curiosity is what principles can be learned from the five tigers and applied to the other animals so that I could have five dragons, five horses, five chickens, etc. . There are two answers IMO, ...1. the Five Element correspondences operate like a grid, applied in differentiating or identifying patterns, in a synthetic manner. So, in that context, 5 Elements can be applied to differentiate the direction, source of power, alchemical relationship, etc. of all of the Xingyi animals, that being said;. 2). such 5 Element correspondences as such, have not been encoded ( in any concrete form) that I'm aware of. Nonetheless, it seems to be a conceptual viewpoint which in most cases, is universally applied. There are a number of different grids which apply to the Five Element family of relationships, therefore, it is common as well, for practitioners to understand the elements and the animals according to a "yin yang" or "three basin" differentiation, or in terms of.. rise, fall, drill and overturn, wherein all of the forms apply these core energies, but in various degrees and types of circuitry.
@@marcusbrinkman3066 So it would seem that I would be better served applying 5 elements theory to understanding the existing animal forms rather than trying to build variations of each. Thank you for the clarification and helping to focus my practice. I hadn't considered how the three basins might be applied to the elements or animals, though. That's another interesting subject. Thanks for your patience with my questions.
Very nice.