Standing Practice is Essential Hi, My teacher - 5th generation Wu Style Master Henry Cheng has told us that real martial skill can not be...
Wu Style Naming In Wu ("Wu Chian Chuan") style there seem to be three major origins for the posture names: - Descriptive - movement is...
Convert to "No Music" My master teaches classes with music. I used to train at home to music as well. My current thinking is that music makes...
Knee problems are common in Tai Chi Incubus, Unfortunately your problem is not uncommon. There is a generally recognized medical problem...
Recently finished this book: The Good: Does suggest some useful ways of explaining where internal power comes from (connective tissue...
San Diego Tai Chi Resources SDFlyer, I study Wu Style Tai Chi as a martial art in the San Diego area with Master Henry Cheng. He teaches the...
I am glad that you understand what I meant about training to not trigger fight-or-flight. But you keep insisting that there is a role for...
Kaitain, If anyone trains the jins as a specific direction (forward, up, down) I think that is definitely too limited of an approach. I want...
I agree that there is a wide variety of ways of explaining and teaching the 8 jins. However I do not think that all is as dire as it seems....
Kaitain, Relevant portion about the 8-jins from my extended article (mentioned in my previous post) is reproduced below. I have not...
Wu Style Training - 4 primary directions Hi Kaitain, Back to your original question: When and how are the eight gates and five steps trained?...
Kaitain, Wow. In your last post you seem to make all kinds of extrapolations about my intentions and characterizations of you. I reviewed my...
It sounds like you have had some traumatic and violent experiences in the past, and adrenaline helped you. You also seem to relish the rush of it...
I am glad that we agree on the composure and calmness part. But I see that as incompatible with any stress hormone release. The way that I...
Kaitain, I'm not sure if I am communicating clearly, but you seem to be taking my comments very specifically and literally: Earlier I...
No. Switching the adrenaline system on at all will "turn up the volume" of backround noise and make subtle listening and responding impossible....
Tai Chi = Awareness & Sensitivity Training Totally disagree - Adrenaline system is counterproductive from a Tai Chi perspective. When you...
Gerald Sharp - ChiFlow.com Gerald Sharp lives and teaches in the Pasadena/Glendale area. I don't know if this is close enough to you, but Gerald...
Cheng Hsin includes "internal" boxing Hi SeanJohn, I recently took a short (4 day) workshop with Peter Ralston. As part of it we had a one day...
Hi All, I study and teach Wu (Wu Chian Chuan) style in San Diego. As part of my website I maintain a "resources" section that lists websites,...
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