Adding Chi to Tai Chi Chuan!

From Al Case at Matrix Martial Arts…

I remember when I first heard about Tai Chi.

Quite fascinating stuff.

Over the decades it became more fascinating,

and I learned how to differentiate

the myth from the reality.

In this newsletter 

I want to list a few of the things I do

that helped me figure out Tai Chi.

Do remember that these things take time,

even with matrixing.

They also demand a certain amount of belief

that you are going to get to where you’re going.

Move the hands like the hands of a clock.

They move evenly,

at the same rate of speed.

It helps if you watch them

and get a little removed from your body.

Breath as if to the tan tien,

and keep the tan tien taut.

Don’t flex the muscles of the abdomen, 

especially over the tan tien

(Tan tien ~ ‘The one point’ ~ 

the center of the body)

Like you’ve got an unbendable arm,

just running energy through it,

keep the tan tien taut, not tight.

move the arms into the posture

and keep them unbendable

while you turn the waist

and shift the weight.

Push with the legs,

you can feel the weight,

and alternate with weightlessness in the legs.

Synchronize the parts of the body

so they begin motion at the same time

and end motion at the same time.

this is CBM

(Coordinated Body Motion)

The energy in the tan tien

will duplicate the motion of the hands

if you have a taut belly and unbendable arms

and synchronize all motion.

Feel the air when you move the palms through  it

Imagine yourself above your head

as if looking down from above

imagine yourself as if pulling the strings

attached to the parts of the body

like a puppet.

Now,

here’s the thing,

this will cause energy to flow

help you enter a meditative state

and even understand the physics involved.

BUT

it is worthless if you don’t practice applications.

This means you should understand the hard style first,

and you should train yourself to handle attacks

without using force.

Make your body as if a glove

into which the opponent puts his fist,

then adjust the glove to unbalance him.

No contact

except the brush of skin on skin

and unbalance the opponent.

Practice push hands,

and especially the Lop Sau

that I have created.

Not the traditional,

which is merely a piecemeal drill,

but the whole drill I developed.

There’s lots of other things you can do,

the classics are full of stuff,

but you need to understand the hard arts,

then practice A LOT!

But these things should help you.

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And,

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Have a great work out!

Al

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