I do Zhan Zhaung, I used to go to the Lam association in London, haven't been for a few years, but still do it every day, I am motivated to push myself a bit more with my practice at the moment. Yiquan/da cheng chaun is amazing, I have seen demonstrations of it, I want to get to an advanced level in it.
Great Video! Our school teaches the Monkey King staff set and the northern broadsword. I just picked up a guan doa for my own practice and your explanation is great! Thank you
Despite of been modified by your shifu, as you tell in the video, what is this guan dao form's name? or how can I search for it online in order to learn it? Your videos are amazing. Thank you for sharing this great content.
Thank you. I don't remember the form's name. I am sure it had one but I was taught it as "Guandao Form.".. I searched online myself for the name but couldn't find it. I will make a more detail video of the form for training soon... 🙏
@@yiquankungfu thank you so much for your quick answer. I'll also be looking for a form like yours. If I find it, I'll tell you the name. Have a happy new year!
Wow. Wild. Saw this once in a deeply internal Bagua instructional vid by a very impressive, near frightening ex-military Master. Focusing Yi. But even more exciting,I recently began Taoist sexual practice. The “screwing”…! At the least physically evident, all the motion drives from subtle motion of the entire sacrum, individually from the pelvic girdle. The thought of if it beginning there! The ideas of Tan Tien all connect and flower out! Thank you!
Thank you very much. See clearly how this is foundational, can at least be an internal principle corrective/core for Bagua, Hsing I, Tai Chi. Even has the core of BaGua mud step. The core. Awesome. Hadn’t seen an instructional Yi Chuan vid before. Already have a foundation in Standing Stake, and some engagement with BC, TCC, HI. The connection is so clear. And the Taoist idea of not having room in one’s life to dedicate time, time, time. In no way thinking YC lesser. Merely closer to the very inception of the Internal. Here’s the applicable first principles, first applications, or close to. Closer to that special idea as well, heard so often in Karate, of practicing one punch, ten thousand times. So great for a web of loose threads to suddenly tie before my eyes. Saw you’d been in India too. Perfect. Thank you. Always closer to the simplest truth. Thank you.
There are many. Depending on teacher and school. We practice "grinding corn" "sea-turtle" "Buddha turning prayer wheel", etc. etc. Just keep practice. Be patient. Have a pure heart. All the best. Laoshr #60 Ching Yi Kung Fu Association P.S. Have a clear intention of what it is you hope to accomplish when you begin this training. Stay focused.
It would be a really good idea to maybe go to a boxing gym and get some advice on hooks and uppercuts. In that way you might be able to minimise the movement.
It's that way because you have the option of striking the back of the guy's neck with the inside of your arm. Boxing is tighter because it doesn't have that technique.
In this one lesson, you've cleared up for me proper hip rotation, power generation, correct footwork, and speed training. All concepts I've more or less given up on. I will treasure this lesson.
I was impressed after watching the 1st video in this series, but now I realize you've imparted a massive amount of knowledge pertaining to this beautiful internal art. It honors me to emulate your instruction...
A truly beautiful introduction to Yi Quan. You've provided a perfect foundation for what i hope will be a rewarding journey through Xingyi Quan. It's just what I needed.
ok this is a weak ass lazy cat stance. can we see some forms? can we see some application slowly and at speed? this video (your extended dialogue) is way too long for a simple "combat step" keep it concise or you will lose your audience as well as students. show us the power of your style!
Tang Lang practitioner but been wanting to learn a little about Yiquan. I have had problems with generarating striking power with my hip movement rather having the habit of throwing my arms instead. Ive been conscious of that mistake but didnt know how to address it. This video has opened my eyes to what Ive been doing wrong mechanically within my body and I think I might start drillin this combat step technique.
Those people who do those to their hands are doing it incorrectly. There are ways to stop that from happening. You can get the results without those problems.
Thanks a lot for this. Question. What is the position of the spine above the lower back? Does the spine need to be like a ∆ ( | I use lower line to represent lower back and upper line to represent upper spine. Triangle is head. Or Normal upper back, ie. Curvature retained. ∆ ) | Or does spine form a uniform line? ∆ | |
That's a good question, thanks! The human spine has natural curves called Lordosis (at the top cervical and lower lumbar) and Kyphosis (in the middle Thoracic and Sacral (hip) section) - We have 7 cervicals, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral and 4 in the coccyx. They are all counted (weirdly enough) from the top down and the last two groups are fused together and form part of our hips. When we go into the Zhan zhuang (or Chan Chuan) position, we try to straighten our spine as much as possible. (So more like your last drawing). By slightly bending our knees and rotating our hips forward we try and make our lower back flat (or straight), then we straighten the middle and top by opening our shoulders and slightly pulling outwards with our scapulas (shoulder blades - like a cobra) and pulling upwards with our heads (with our chin slightly down) as if we were hanging from the sky by a thread. Once we are in this position and as straight as we can get, we come forward 1 degree, controlling this angle with the front part of our feet. I know it is difficult to follow by reading or in video. This is why I don't like online teaching. You need to have someone correcting your posture when you do it. Hope this, at least, helps. All the best! 🙏
@@yiquankungfu I can understand the opening shoulders and pulling Scalpula, but the 'suspending the neck from the sky' part is a bit confusing to me. I usually curl the upper torso a bit forward, but that could a bad habit. Just need to stand more I guess. One more question: What is the general position of the neck? (circle equals head, straight line equals neck area from collar to back of head) ® / ® | ® \ (I've not seen a backward tilting neck but mgiht as well ask in case)
@@fis-tarts Hi there, the idea is to try and get your whole spine as straight as possible (without overdoing it, of course). It should be in a comfortable straight, upward position. This includes the neck, which is part of the spine. Once you have done this, then you move the whole spine in one block slightly forward (1 degree). The hanging from the sky analogy is so that students or practitioners don't lift their shoulders, which is a common thing to do. Shoulders should be down and at the same time slightly pulling outwards to make your back feel like a cobra, if that makes any sense... Hope it helps! 🙏
An interesting couple of videos ( I watched part 1 and 2) It's not easy to discuss the workings of an Internal art especially one like Yiquan. Like so many things it's all about the doing and not about the talking. Explanations help the understanding after one has experienced something to understand. Sounds counter intuitive to the Western mind but when one understands that Eastern philosophies and lived and experienced to find their truths whereas Western philosophies are talking and thinking philosophies with theories that may or may not be truths. Then it starts to make sense. Not a bad description of the different aspects of Yiquan- ZZ, Shili, Fali - again without real experience it's difficult to put across. Well done. Good luck :)
Thanks for that. Something I always say... Have the experience and then you'll really know what it's about. This is why self-teaching books and videos like mine are useless unless you try it yourself. I think it has also happened historically with religions in the West and how early gnostics, who followed a more Eastern approach were "replaced" by believers.
Really like your stuff. First time i got an explanation of the mental work that has to be done in zhan zhuang that makes sense. Thank you. Looking forward for other videos from you.
Too much strictness in the forms for a natural formless art actually. Also too much imagination instead of intention. Also I see a lack of the physiological explanation behind the art. Sorry to say, but this video is useless for introduction to Yi Quan science 😔
Too much strictness in the forms for a natural formless art actually. Also too much imagination instead of intention. Also I see a lack of the physiological explanation behind the art. Sorry to say, but this video is useless for introduction to Yi Quan science 😔
Not to criticise but your teaching mind set is still in in the Shaolin mode. Yiquan doesn't teach techniques but always emphasises (Moli) seeking and developing (Chengli ) contradiction force in six directions, through mental induction (Yinian) throughout the whole body (Hunyuanli). Throughout the whole 7 basic methods, this should constantly be emphasised and maintained. This makes Yiquan Fa stand out from other MA practices. My Yiquan Fa branch is the from the Yao school and I have been practising Yiquan Fa and other MA under various Chinese and Japanese teachers for just over 50 years.
I tend to think of "external" training, "wai gong" as training to develop muscle and bone strength and to generate power through muscular force, speed and momentum whereas internal training, "nei gong" works to develop the breath (qi), nervous system (intent) and tendons as the way to issue power (fa jing) . Even exercise physiology talks about nervous system training/fatigue and neuro-muscular recruitment as important elements in strength, so this is not as esoteric as it sounds at first glance. Nerve impulses, action potentials, are basically bio-electric energy, which sounds a lot like qi to me.
Great video - I like the nail / hammer idea however I don't teach a 'combat stance' any more - I find the idea of stances (in a fighting context) too limiting. It should be said that when I teach self defence, my Tai Chi gets 'corrupted' 'improved' 'whatever' by all the other influences that I have been subject to in my martial arts journey - so it's completely possible I have no idea of what is the best way to do anything anymore :) :) :)
Thank you! I think your journey reflects the path of the warrior and the real martial artist. Historically, what you describe is what happened with many martial artists who were wonderers and seekers. Like life, I think the more tools you have in your box the better you will be at adapting and solving problems. Shifu Tung Kuo Tsao use to say to us "To learn the staff = 1 day, to learn the spear = 1 year, to learn the sword = All your life" It was his way of saying that we never stop learning. I incorporate stuff from Yoga and Dance into my Kung Fu classes because I consider some it is better or more appropriate for the person I am teaching. One of Martial Art's most important premises is to develop the ability to adapt to any given situation. We cannot understand and embody that knowledge and then not incorporate whatever we consider makes us better.
Thanks, enjoyed the video - some interesting differences between Tai Chi (the way I play it) and Yiquan, Zhan Zhuang very similar, just slightly different hand shape and rotation; Siu Li is not something that I teach an absolute equivalent to, but the nearest 'floating hands' has the difference that generally the arms and body move in a more synchronised way and without the push forward from the body; you said Fa Li from the hips I do Fa Jin from the feet. BUT there are obviously major similarities in the use of Yi - intent; conscious movement and feedback awareness loop 'thingy' :) - and of course the final product of appropriate and automatic response to a dynamic threat will almost certainly be extremely similar - I assume?
Absolutely! Tai Chi is also an internal expression martial art as Yiquan - There are many similarities between them. Tai Chi Chen style has also the fast moves with contractions within relaxation. A bit like a whip, which is also very similar...
Same same but different as the Thai people are fond of saying. Li is force or strength/ power Jin is refined Qi Yiquan players also achieve Jin the same way (pretty much) good Tai Chi players do. Both arts, like Xing Yi, Ba gua, Liu He Ba Fa, are what Grandmaster Lam Kam Chuen describes as thinking man's arts not robots. So appropriate responses to external stimuli not automated responses.
