Introduction to Tai chi, Episode 6: The Magic of Alignment.
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Ian Sinclair explains the importance and meaning of alignment in tai chi, including physical, mental and emotional components, and the role of proprioception. He also discusses the comparison of the body to a society, and the importance of the individual parts to the whole, and visa versa.
At the end of the video, he builds a tensegrity structure using a Scottish claymore (great sword), and some 20 gage wire.
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This is one of the best explanations of Internal Power I've ever heard. Amazing. Thank you.
This Guy is one of the Best! Followed for a long time. Would love to train with him someday.
Me too!
Wonderful lecture. Magnificient metaphors for instructing the western mind🤓🙏🏻
One of the best explanation about what the Tai Chi is scientifically and metaphysically. Really helpful !
Heard a lot of strange analogies before for teaching taichi, but the hip being a bully is a new one! Great stuff!
I love this, "The value of a society is measured by the importance it places on each individual. And likewise, the value of the individual is measured by the importance it places on the society and hence all the other individuals."
Ian, you science fair maniac! Always good to see you, even virtually. D.
Hairstyling by quarantine wardrobe by circumstance LOL. This series is fantastic!
Genius Explanation ! Hats Off
Thank you. You have just helped me to understand how to "relax". I find I start to tighten up, especially in class. I will practice this and hopefully calmness and balance will come more naturally. 🙏
Wonderful!
Facinating. I've never come across anyone who goes to such an extent to get through to my thick head. Legendary stuff Ian! 😆
After buying his videos and practicing the form for 3 years, this lecture cracked the my thick egg and crystallized exactly what ive been missing.. I really didn't understand what what true alignment really meant.
Thank you Professor for detail explanation .
Thank you very much for sharing. You are very generous.
So gooood, thank you for all your video's
Thank you that was a great enlightenment for alignment. I never thought 'wuji' was all that???
Loved it
Fun Fact: The term Tensegrity was coined by Buckminster Fuller.
Well done Sifu!
Detailed Lucid information minus the pseudomumbo-jumbo you usually hear from most tai chi instructors. It’s refreshing to hear an American put these otherwise esoteric terms and concepts into metaphor metaphors that we understood. I always used to think it was strange how some Americans once they mastered a Chinese art somehow try to mimic being Chinese themselves in speech and presentation and even the background music! Love how you take your timeAnd explain things so it makes sense that’s the only way that Americans really learn anything in my opinion. It Hass to make logical sense
Great video. Thank you!
A note, proprioception is the sense of balance, Introspection is the word for feeling your muscles under the skin. At least, that is how I understand it.
Interesting. Thanks man.
Do you have any thoughts on muscle density vs body fat composition, in relation to the cultivation/movement of chi? With each of them having differing electrical resistance. Also, considering body composition, in relation to the contact of the fascia to the muscle and skin, and tightness of the network of fibers, comparing a lean build vs higher body fat.
In a democracy, the hip and the knee can out vote and over power the ankle. In a republic, each of the joints can do as they please. So long as they don't interfere with the other and they can choose to contract with one another, to work in concert, without the shoulder interfering.
The mountain of my soul!
It's like learning kung fu from Winnie the Pooh, and I mean that in the best way xD
“I think. Therefore I am confused.” -Benjamin Hoff, [The Dao of Pooh]
This is correct . Correct.
What is the significance of holding the tip of the tongue to the roof of the mouth in wuji?
For one thing, it keeps you from biting your tongue when you get punched in the jaw. Too many people stick their tongue out when they concentrate.
For another, the precise placement of the tongue affects not only the alignment of the head and neck, but also of the entire core.
Too close to the teeth is not ideal. But too far back is not always right either.
I suggest experimenting with different positions to see how they affect your body and mind. Try on the teeth to see if that puts you to sleep. Then try the roots of the teeth. Then move to the middle of the hard palette, then the border of the soft palette, then the middle of the soft palette. There are other positions (tongue mudras), but they are not to be tried without guidance.
@@IanSinclairTaiChi many thanks for your very insightful response. I have always felt slight changes when positioning my tongue and occasionally when in the right place, along with the rounded relaxed shoulders, it just feels different.
I'm not sure if this is true, but I was told by a teacher that it's also the same spot on the palette that is massaged by babies when the suck their thumbs..
The hip is kind of bully. I love it!
Pulling silk gets the slack out of the fascia, thus creating connection
That's an impressive sword :)
SUPER !!!!!!!
18:22 true, i felt a bit discomfort around my feet
10/10 Would look up "Tensegrity Structures" again. 5 star.
#TeamBucky_F
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Question, if I don't feel tension during movements of the forms does it confirm Im in alignment ? Or is lost of tension one element of alignment?
when standing aligned, the spine make the S that one can see between the yin and yang.....
is that so ?
No. The spine should be straight, as if sitting. The psoas relaxes, the thighs cook, the dantien breathes in all directions.
Why do tai chi grand masters last 15 seconds in MMA matches?
Some of them are self-proclaimed masters, which doesn't count. Many of the examples that people use involve people who are martial stylists, not martial artists. It is very difficult to win a professional fight using someone else's style.
Eastern philosophy, well said anyway.
Shouldn't the hip be the hippie? XD
I was just watching Chris Hadfield share his profound and life-transforming experiences of orbiting the Earth thousands of times ( th-cam.com/video/6W0lX-zwFa0/w-d-xo.html ) and it occurred to me that just as we refer to Chris as an astronaut, we could also refer to you, Ian, as a taijinaut. When I let my mind wander and wonder about how many times you have practiced the taiji forms, how many times you have been taught some aspect of taiji, and how many times you have taught/explained/demonstrated various subtle and not so subtle aspects of taiji to thousands of different individuals, the numbers that come to mind are in the hundreds of thousands (if not in the millions). In my humble experience, that pretty much makes you a tajinaut cum laude. Peace :-)
what does it mean to pronate the foot?
A pronated foot has the weight is on the inside edge of the foot, usually meaning that the arch is weak and the ankle is rolling inward.
A supinated foot has the weight is on the outside edge of the foot and the ankle is rolling outward.
a normal foot has the weight more centred and evenly distributed.
@@IanSinclairTaiChi oh wow, thank you
Usually I'm nodding along to your videos 100%, but, Ian, that's not a tensegrity structure you've built there: There's tension on the wood around the hole, and in a tensegrity structure all tension is in the cables, while only compressive forces act on the rods. And it's not just tensegrity which is a rabbit hole, practically everything Bucky Fuller did is: Among other things he developed a whole novel way to do geometry which ultimately led to Fullerenes being named after him. No other maths would do to describe them. Humanity will probably need at least a couple of hundred years to digest and surpass "Synergetics", same as with Euclid's "Elements".
I suppose that you are right. Thanks. It was a spur of the moment thing, and I was conceiving of the sword and wood as a single unit. I wonder how I could fix that. ...
Ian Sinclair including a connecting joint, as well as rods and cables, would seem to bring your model closer to the human body. Love the sword, anyway!
here’s a tensegrity you can make with everyday materials, and it’s our fundamental model for studying biotensegrity: th-cam.com/video/RuEjQ228sy0/w-d-xo.html
My book on how biotensegrity informs human movement is called “Everything Moves” as I was motivated to study biotensegrity via my work in T’ai Chi. Great to hear a kindred spirit! thanks!
The sword ? You play HEMA ?
Something I do not get it about you is why aren't you slimmer with all these sport doing?! You are charisma, but your body shape doesn't suits to what you are teaching here. ...... I am just curious, no offence, please.