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Open Your Kua By Focusing On Your FEET in Tai Chi

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Unlock the hidden knowledge of proper foot positioning in Tai Chi. I go barefoot in this video to help you understand the subtle yet game-changing nuances of weight distribution and internal alignment. Understanding the role of your feet positioning and weighting can drastically improve your practice. I also delve into overcoming my foot fractures and proving my podiatrist wrong by no longer needing to wear custom orthotics. Let me know in the comments if you tried out the change in foot position and feel the difference in your stability! 👣
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@user-zt6yr9wh7j 2 месяца назад

I have crushed spinal discs, and a left leg that is weak. My lift knees hurts all the time and am taking Sun style for arthritis. This has given me balance and strength in my legs. You teaching how to place the feet has cured my knee pain, I know Tai Chi can heal my ills. I am 76 yrs old and I love tai chi.

@AipingTaiChi 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much for sharing this. I am so glad this helped your knee pain 🙏❤️

@saskiasia 11 месяцев назад

I was looking for this kind of video showing how to position the feet as I wasn't sure if I was doing it right. This is the most important info that everyone should start with. I can already feel the change when doing my Qi Gong. Thank you!

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

I'm so glad this was helpful 🙏❤️

@CeylanCrow 2 месяца назад

Totally works. I usually say, the outside of the feet are parallel, which will naturally bring the middle toe straight forward. This internal structure you speak of came to me after many many years of practice, for a beginner imagining or 'faking it till you make it' philosophy can help start the process of nurturing the internal structure.🙏

@archangel98632 9 месяцев назад

OH MY GOODNESS... I have congenital flat feet, been wearing arch supports my whole life (Ahzner, Good Feet, Dr Scholls... you name it). I've also been practicing martial arts since I was 4, mostly Arnis/Escrima, but also karate, TKD, grappling, as well as intro Tai Chi in med school. Because I did Tai Chi much later after other martial arts, I could "catch on" to a lot of the postures relatively easily, especially with my natural flexibility. HOWEVER It never felt "right." Our instructor was wonderful, but since he focused mostly on the other (elderly) students, and I mostly "looked" right, I never got great instruction on details. This ONE shift this morning has opened up not only my kua, but a WHOLE LOT of my structure! Thank you SO MUCH for finally giving me a practical, detailed, specific change and tool I can use to change not only my Tai Chi practice, but quite literally the rest of my life!

@AipingTaiChi 9 месяцев назад

Oh my gosh, thank you so much for sharing this! This video was meant exactly for someone like you to find it because I didn't see anyone else talking about it and I knew it could make a difference 🙏❤️

@lsporter88 8 месяцев назад

This indeed can be pretty clear once you pay attention to it. This always felt like a good starting structure for good Balance and Grounding. Great Lesson as always.

@AipingTaiChi 8 месяцев назад

🙏❤️😊

@thereadersandwriterslounge3292 11 месяцев назад

Thank you. That was helpful. I did this and practiced Peng and my arms were more relaxed and able to sense, and follow better.

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

I'm so glad this was helpful 🙏❤️

@JoshuaFontany 11 месяцев назад

Mahalo sifu Shirley. One of my silat students is a young person with very tight legs/gait problems. This was very helpful!

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic! I'm so glad. Thanks Josh 🙏❤️

@JoshuaFontany 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, she says it has helped to be concious of her footwork through the day. Honestly, it also really helped me clarify certain biomechanics for the silat animal langkahs like Monkey & Tiger.

@scawhitwell 11 месяцев назад

Excellent and very helpful adjustment, thank you. It is also a good demonstration of how meticulous focus on exact positioning and inner sensitivity to that discipline are so important. The tiniest thing can have a mighty effect. Thank you for your excellent teaching, Sifu Shirley.

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙏❤️

@radiasons 10 месяцев назад

@@AipingTaiChid hi 😮😢😢

@TaiChiRejuvenation 11 месяцев назад

Thank you, Shirley! I'd just tried this and noticed my upper body was able to relax, instantly. It seemed to make my breathing more effortless. I will work with this more. Yes, more details about developing the internal structure would be helpful. Do you have any guided standing meditations on your channel?

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

I'm so glad Mike ❤️🙏 I bought a podcast mic so I can have better audio recordings and will be making some guided meditation 😁 Stay tuned!

@MrET114 9 месяцев назад

@@AipingTaiChiI appreciate all that information you are truly right not a lot of Chinese martial arts teachers teach you the basics. I'm basically self-taught again in drunken fist kung fu.

@juanjosebonetramis9158 11 месяцев назад

Thanks, it is very interesting and I would appreciate more videos about the construction of the internal structure and the relation with the fascia.

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

Yes I can make that. Also Damian Neve and Coach Chong Xie (Hyperarch Fascia Training) are both experts in explaining this in more technical detail. Damian does mostly RU-vid live streams. Chong Xie is really active on Instagram.

@tanyacables4010 Месяц назад

Thank you! ❤

@joanseverson3952 11 месяцев назад

Perfect description of internal structure power. Easily understood.

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

I'm so glad this was helpful 🙏❤️

@Sofialee300 11 месяцев назад

This was useful. Please talk more about internal alignment thanks

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

🙏❤️ I will 😁

@humbertoaguiler2457 11 месяцев назад

Very. Interested i would like tomlear about internal aligment .i have not a very good balance do to a luck of strenght in my left side i sufer 10 year ago a stroke and end up with a drop foot wich recupared a lot hut still that food is weak

@foofoofnik99 8 месяцев назад

Very helpful! This is wonderful and practical knowledge! Thank you so much!

@AipingTaiChi 8 месяцев назад

I'm so glad this was helpful 🙏❤️

@faithcobbum8913 11 месяцев назад

Thank you, this is so useful. I would love to hear more on this subject.

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙏❤️

@WendyTamminen-lz7hf 6 месяцев назад

Thank you very much - this is a great explanation and demonstration! And it fits well with some imagery I like to use for myself and when teaching - that our skeletal structure itself can be strong and supportive like an inuksuk, where every stone is separate, but the smallest details in alignment of individual parts at lower levels allow the whole structure to have amazing balance and give strong support to what is above. Then we aren’t asking our muscles, tendons and ligaments to do extra work, so there is more relaxation.

@AipingTaiChi 5 месяцев назад

Yes 💯 Thanks for sharing that wonderful visualization ❤️🙏

@karenconnors7765 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for this excellent instruction! You have a gift of making things so clear and understandable. I enjoy your videos so much.

@AipingTaiChi 6 месяцев назад

❤️🥰

@kenmillman7729 11 месяцев назад

Thank You Shirly, your explanations are so clear and concise I find them some of the best on youtube. I wish you were in NJ, I'd be your student. Yes! your guidance on foot position and pressure aiming the second toe felt like a vale lifting in my experience. I have also had knee surgeries and ankle injuries and realize the internal imbalances that exist. I will keep this in mind during my practice, thank you so much.

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much 🙏❤️ I'm so glad the videos are helpful ☺️

@sierraway2963 11 месяцев назад

Excellent video. This plus the white crane video taught me so much. The subtle things are - as you said - totally significant.

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙏❤️

@nicolasgelonese9942 2 месяца назад

Es extremadamente útil como inusual que se transmitan con tanta generosidad estos tips de tan difícil descubrimiento personal . Muchas gracias y sería de inestimable ayuda continuar con este tipo de enseñanza

@AipingTaiChi 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much 🙏❤️ These are things that have really helped me and I know many people suffer from knee pain and knee injuries like I did and hope it can help them

@carlosfernicola6111 2 месяца назад

Excellent

@johnryan4104 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing your knowledge i understand completely as I'm doing exactly what you say my teeth are coming into line eyes ears and pane leaveing body after long journey since 1995 after car crash? Repair goers beowen into childhood. You have all ways helped me with your loving and caring advice I'm glad to say life is very good and I'm starting to enjoy everything even the smallest things sending you a fulfilling day with joy from a great full of fan. 🎶💜😊🙏☯️☮️🎯

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing this beautiful comment 🙏❤️

@patriciamartin6309 11 месяцев назад

Yes I have focussed on this and agree

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

🙏❤️🔥

@devrimturker 11 месяцев назад

Interesting subject. William CC Chen does Tai Chi Chuan, with fingers and toes :)

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

William CC Chen is such an inspiration 🔥

@ZalMoxis 9 месяцев назад

I love you Shirley💞✨

@AipingTaiChi 8 месяцев назад

🙏❤️😊

@naturelover137 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!!! Like you I have a skeletal limitation (missing bone in vertebrae), and I have trouble with the opening hip and stepping movement which causes misalignment in my pelvis/lumber spine. I keep hoping that if I can keep proper form, I'll be able to do tai chi, which I really like. I've learned several forms, but always give up because it messes up skeleton somewhere.

@AipingTaiChi 9 месяцев назад

Make sure you take very small steps and incorporate much more standing practice to get your proper alignment first. People know the saying you have to learn to walk before you run but in Tai Chi it's really you have to learn how to stand before you walk. I have found in my students who struggle most with stepping they haven't gotten their standing alignment correct yet and I have them work on that as their sole practice at home. Hope that helps!

@naturelover137 8 месяцев назад

@@AipingTaiChi Thank you! Yes, I'm sure you're right.

@LotusPrayer2 10 месяцев назад

Magical touch by allow big and second toes pointing forward and press down big toes. This will make inner arch lift up effortlessly and feet are easy to put equal weight to the heels and ball. This makes inner structure stable and settled. Now my question is I truly appreciate this tree standing position, is the same principle while I am moving back and forward? Every step I press down my big toes?

@AipingTaiChi 9 месяцев назад

Yes, also stepping backwards too. Never lose contact of your big toe to the ground when foot is supposed to be rooted 😁

@oliviawang2287 9 месяцев назад

@@AipingTaiChi Thanks for your teaching. I got the point. Very helpful.

@user-zc6tv2ed7g 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much Sifu Shirley. Incredibly clear instructions. Do we keep the same foot position if we transfer to stand on one leg?

@AipingTaiChi 10 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙏❤️ Standing on one leg is easier to have supporting foot angled outwards a bit.

@BeatrizFerraz 11 месяцев назад

Thanks Sifu! The more specific on fundamentals, the better ☯️ Do you do any glute exercise or its possible to strenght them only with taiji footwork?

@AipingTaiChi 11 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙏❤️ There are many great gluten exercises. Side to side walking in a squat position, making sure knees are aligned with toes is a great exercise. Tai Chi backwards walking making sure your foot positioning is in correct position is also really great.