Teacher Won't Tell You: Mastering the Guan Ai Requires Practice and Guidance
Bone Support
The book on Yi Quan says so,be relaxed but not slack, firm but not stiffBut, is it slack or firm? Slack leads to slackness, and stiffness leads to rigidity. How can we say slack and firm?
In fact, standing on a pillar also has a sayingVirtual spirit upright and raised, also like Jade tree hanging precious clothesAs soon as you stand on a pillar, you must straighten up. At this time, you willSurrounding space is ethereal, muscles are like clothes hung on a rack. This is the true relaxation, comfortable relaxation, expansive relaxation.
The essence of Virtual Spirit Upright refers to Bone Support.
With Bone Support, your intention, your will has a foothold, intention to gas to, at this time you will feel gas sinking into the bones, muscles also stretch. Therefore, it is said thatYi Quan is about using intention to rebuild the skeleton, bone heavy muscle light.Therefore, many Yi Quan masters, thin and short,when fighting, they are extremely heavy, like launching bullets.
Why? Because their bones are strong,The skeleton is like steel, the whole body is like cast. This is also a necessary skill for Chinese martial arts to overcome Western martial arts!Western martial arts, the force they use may be like a hammer, they are tall and powerful, Eastern people don’t have this advantage, only by training themselves to be sharper and harder.
Here, the author wants to extractMaster Secret QuietRegarding the discussion of slack and firmness:
Slack and firm
When building a house, the next job is to clean the garbage inside.Posture is easy to learn, clumsy power is difficult to go.Different sizes are distributed throughout the body, the stiffness called ‘trash’. Stiffness is the result of long-term labor and improper force, which disrupts the balance of overall force, which requires a tool to clean it up, so relaxation becomes a special tool or necessary means.
Martial arts often say that the body is like a pocket, you must use relaxation to empty the old things (stiffness), in order to accommodate new things (overall force). Relaxation is mainly about inertia, which is called ‘Jade tree hanging precious clothes’.
‘Jade tree’ refers to the pillar frame is ethereal and upright, the skeleton is sharp on eight sides, the hand touches the edge, the momentum is like standing in the wind and clouds; ‘precious clothes’ refers to the muscles are extremely relaxed, without any force, attached to the skeleton, as if hanging on a clothes rack, the internal gas and blood flow smoothly, breathing is long and relaxed, all the comfort comes from relaxation.
The degree of relaxation is different, the feeling for the practitioner is different,
(Ma, numbness), (re, heat), (zhang, swelling), (zhui, dropping) are for relaxation.
When you feellike being filled with leadit indicates that your pillar work has reached a very deep level. At this time, the small and fine stiffness in your body has been swept away by relaxation like a ‘sweeping broom’, the fine blood vessels are all open, the nourishing blood is filled throughout the body.
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