Introduction to the characteristics of Tai Ji Chuan's inner strength
The first characteristic of Taiji's inner strength is fluidity.
Tai Ji Chuan has practiced to a certain extent, how is his internal strength? Quantity? Has the accumulation been achieved? Quality? The breakthrough achieved the first leap in Tai Ji Chuan's kung fu practice, and the inner strength of Tai Chi suddenly penetrated at a certain moment of a certain day.
The first feeling after the breakthrough of inner strength is that there is new strength inside the body. This new force is constantly surging and popular in the body with ideas and actions, and it is very comfortable wherever it flows. At this time, the yogi can clearly realize that the inner strength he pursues has emerged.
At this time, the exerciser's mood is suddenly enlightened, and there is a feeling of clearing the clouds.
From the experience of internal work, mobility is a very obvious feature. The predecessors described this feature of internal work as? Is it popular? .
The second characteristic of Taiji's inner strength is integrity.
After the initial infiltration of internal strength, continue to practice hard for a period of time, and you will feel that the internal strength is increasing and the quality is constantly improving. In the middle, a whole strength with Dantian as the core is gradually formed, from hands to legs and feet, moving, static and penetrating.
When you are full of energy, practitioners can clearly feel the inner strength? Starting from the feet, starting from the legs, dominating the waist and forming between the fingers? The complete strength of Tao, as the classical boxing theory says? From your feet to your legs and waist, you always need to be full of air. Step forward, step back, can you get a chance? . Thus, integrity is an important feature of Taiji's internal strength.
The third characteristic of Tai Chi's inner strength is that it is light and heavy.
After the internal skill is connected, you can obviously feel that the internal skill with Dantian as the core is opening and closing the limbs of the whole body, which is light and heavy.
Sometimes the limbs are like balloons filled with ammonia, and sometimes they are as heavy as bags filled with mercury. Really? Light and heavy? .
Tai Ji Chuan's predecessors described this inner strength as? As light as a flower and as hard as a stone? .
The fourth characteristic of Taiji's inner strength is the combination of rigidity and softness.
People who don't know Tai Ji Chuan, when they see the leisurely Tai Ji Chuan, always feel that those who practice boxing are weak. In fact, this is only a superficial phenomenon.
Actually? Soft? What is it for? Gangs? ,? Extremely soft and then extremely hard? . Anyone who knows internal skills can clearly feel that Tai Ji Chuan is soft outside and hard inside.
Yang Chengfu? Arms wrapped in iron like cotton? , Tai Chi Chuan is? The art of hiding needles in cotton wool? . Wu Yuxiang, a martial arts master of Tai Ji Chuan Kaipai, said it more accurately. He said? The true qi is like a nine-curved bead, and the energy is like a hundred steelmaking. Why is it indestructible? .
? Jiuquzhu? Talk about Tai Chi's inner strength? Soft? One side? Hundred steelmaking? Talk about Tai Chi's inner strength? Gangs? On the other side. Moreover, what did Tai Ji Chuan do in pushing hands and fighting skills? Soft and fair hair? It also clearly shows the power of Tai Chi? Soft and hard? The characteristics of.
The relationship between technology and internal strength
Tai Ji Chuan's technique and internal skill are two different concepts, which cannot be confused.
Techniques are also called techniques, techniques, techniques, techniques; Internal skill is also called internal skill, kung fu, skill and strength. All competitive sports that fight with people, such as martial arts, boxing, wrestling, fighting, etc. It should be both skill and internal strength.
Wang Zongyue's fist said:? Although it has changed a lot, it remains the same? Change refers to skill, while reason always refers to inner strength.
Skills can be taught by teachers, can also be learned from each other among boxers, or can be secretly memorized and pondered while watching others drill, and can be applied when they are mature.
Internal strength is the energy that the human body can release, and it is also the human body's own skill. Strength and strength are a category, strength is the sublimation of strength, and strength is the foundation of strength.
The exercise of inner strength must be gradually generated under the guidance of teachers and according to the correct training methods after long-term and continuous hard exercise.
In the process of Tai Ji Chuan's practice to produce internal strength, we must first destroy rigidity and softness, and then turn it into strength.
The quality of inner strength exercise depends on everyone's physical condition, and the results of everyone's exercise can't be the same, but as long as they can exercise hard, they can always make achievements. The profound martial arts of masters of all ages came from long-term hard training.
In the art of fighting, skill is a matter of method, while inner strength is a matter of skill. Skill and internal skill can neither be confused nor separated, and must be used together. Any technology must concentrate its internal strength, so as to get twice the result with half the effort and obtain a good attack effect.
If you don't practice internal skills, but practice your skills quite maturely and use your moves beautifully, that's the trick without internal skills. In the end, you will still make gestures with your fists and legs. When you fight with others, you can't beat others, but you won't be beaten by yourself.
On the other hand, if you only practice internal skills and don't practice skills, although your skills have grown up, and this is a skill without tricks, if you fight with people, you won't know the method of transformation and hitting, and you won't know the time, angle, position and direction of hitting. You can only bump around blindly, which is not good for hitting people.
According to modern people, technology is the software in fighting art, and internal strength is the hardware in fighting art. Hardware and software must be combined to be effective.
The boxing proverb says: If you don't practice boxing, you will end up with nothing? Former boxers clearly pointed out that while practicing boxing movements, they must combine internal strength training, which is called skill training. Any boxing method has its internal strength and internal strength training methods.
Only by combining skill with exuberant inner strength can we achieve the goal of getting started without success when pushing hands or fighting with people. As long as the technique is used properly, once the internal strength breaks out, you can tap the outside of a person's foot, or shake through the internal organs and hurt the bones and muscles, which makes people feel scared! This can be called China Kung Fu.
How to use Tai Ji Chuan's inner strength?
Many beginners are full of curiosity about internal work, but beginners must first lay a good foundation. Let's take a concrete look at how to make good use of inner strength.
Tai Ji Chuan has three realms.
One is walking (moving the head, trunk and limbs like gymnastics, which can be used for health care);
Second, walking strength (through internal force while walking, it can break out at various power points and can be used for fighting skills);
Martial arts is the pursuit of everyone who studies Tai Ji Chuan. Fighting skill can be used in life, and the skill of fighting skill is to practice internal strength.
Third, the inner strength drives the appearance (Tai Ji Chuan's shape, spirit and strength are perfectly combined, keeping in good health and prolonging life, and defeating the enemy with one stroke).
In the first realm, most practitioners can generally do well through a period of hard practice and standardization; The second realm is a little deeper, but it is difficult for practitioners to get to the point. So, how can we give full play to the advantages of Tai Ji Chuan's internal skills?
"On Boxing" said: Do not move inside, do not send out, do not start work, do not send out; Lead the spirit with meaning and promote the body with spirit; Through the waist as the axis; Take care of gas, not gas; Inside the arc, outside the spiral, and so on. , points out the basic way and direction of Tai Ji Chuan's internal strength.
For beginners, this statement is too biased. Practicing boxing is easy to understand but difficult to master. In fact, Tai Ji Chuan's practice needs long-term infiltration to understand, not overnight.
Tai Ji Chuan exercises can start from the following aspects.
(A) practice loose and soft
1, practice Gong Zhuang more.
Achieve virtual collar strength, emotional decline, bend your knees and lift your hips to relax, sink your stomach and relax, and enhance leg support.
2. When practicing boxing, lower the frame (beginners practice from overhead) to further improve the support of lower limbs.
Fist said: fist down to consolidate the foundation. When you practice until the footwall is as steady as a rock and the upper body is like the wind blowing willows, it means that your whole body is relaxed and your limbs are soft.
(2) Practice gas production
After the soft training is in place, gas production practice should be carried out.
1. When the sun rises slowly in the morning, face the sun and start walking. At the same time, grab it with both hands, walk down the arc and inhale, and rotate across the abdomen. Then put your hands out of the front shed and exhale when your hands cross the body midline, that is, clear your breath and breathe polluted air. You can practice a left step or a right step, and let the internal qi pass through the abdomen every time.
2. Practice walking on Sunday. Focus on practicing walking on Sunday. Every time the internal qi rises along the Du meridian and falls along the Ren meridian, it must pass through Dantian, and then let the qi stay in Dantian for one minute before moving on. By constantly practicing relaxation and returning qi to Tian Dan, we can open and close freely on Sunday, enriching the lower abdomen and expanding the qi inside.
(3) Practice luck
When dantian has internal qi, let dantian qi rotate back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, until it can run freely under the drive of ideas.
Take the biography of Chen Taiji as an example to illustrate.
For example, lazy people dress: after the diamond and cymbals, the internal qi reaches Yongquan point at this time.
The first move, the mind guides the internal qi to Tian Chan, and then guides Tian Chan's qi to inhale with his left hand. In appearance, the body turns left, and the right hand runs through the palm at the upper left; The mind continues to absorb the breath of the abdomen, inhale, turn right, and exhale after crossing the midline of the body with the right hand.
Under the guidance of the mind, Tian Dan rotates continuously for one week and returns to Tian Dan, at the same time, the inner strength is poured into the palm of his right hand to the middle finger of his right hand; Reflected in the shape, the left hand is counterclockwise and the right hand is clockwise. When the qi of the abdomen sinks in place again, the figure is just opening downwards and closing upwards. This is to draw air with intention, to promote the body with qi, to cooperate with internal and external breathing, and to take the spiral in the external arc.
Secondly, the mind guides the abdominal qi to rise to the left and inhale at the same time. After passing through the midline of the body, the gas in the abdomen will be exhaled. Driven by the mind, the qi in the abdomen will keep moving forward until it reaches the hand from the back to the shoulder to the elbow.
Physically, the right hand runs through the palm at the upper left, and at the same time, the left hip body is relaxed, and the center of gravity moves to the right, the right hand turns the palm, the body turns right, and the hand opens to the right; When driving to the right, the cyclone in the body passes through the midline of the body and exhales. At this time, the mind is in the middle finger of the right hand instead of qi.
When you open your right hand and release your left hip, both internal and external forces are urged to the right hand, and the emotional forces are unified, and the internal and external forces are consistent.
Another example is the first stroke of a single whip, with hands around the right front of the body. There are many kinds of winding methods, such as the winding method of Dantian walking sideways, which is reflected in the vertical circle on the hand shape; There is also a method of winding a flat circle around the abdomen, which is embodied in the hand shape. Both of them are typical manifestations of inner arc and outer spiral, and they are also manifestations of attracting the spirit with meaning, walking inside and outside, first inside and then outside.
The winding method of the seven-star hand on the chest in the previous step: after the left hand punches, the hands are crossed, at this time, the whole body is relaxed, and the mind guides the abdomen to rotate clockwise back and forth, which is reflected in the figure that the chest and waist are closed, and the winding path of the hands is vertical back and forth. After standing for a circle, the outer edge of the palm and the heel are forced (or not).
The idea of guiding qi is to drive the field sheet to turn smoothly, and at the same time bring the inner strength to the thenar and heel of the palm; Breathing is breathing-breathing-breathing. It embodies Tai Ji Chuan's inner arc and outer rotation, with breathing, and also embodies the unity of spirit and strength, and so on. All Tai Ji Chuan's inner strength is the same.
In addition, when practicing Tai Chi gun hammer, we should also follow this internal strength walking method. At this time, some practitioners may question, didn't many Taiji masters say it when they talked about the cannon hammer? Don't think too much about internal gas? , this sentence?
Let's be clear here, this sentence does not violate the fact that Tai Chi Chuan Bao Hammer needs internal force to drive, because those Tai Chi predecessors have pointed out that to practice Tai Chi Bao Hammer well, we must first practice these basic fists, such as Lao Lu Jiayi and Tai Chi Chuan Jing Yao Eighteen Styles. It takes a lot of effort to practice these slow basic fists. In other words, from these basic boxing methods, we must find out the method of walking strength, practice walking strength well, and make the whole body follow the trend, be flexible and moderate, and coordinate breathing and movements well. ) Based on this premise.
Only then? Don't think too much about internal gas when practicing gun hammer, okay? In this way, when the kung fu is in full swing, the internal strength will be natural when practicing the gun hammer? Moment of inertia? . In this regard, practitioners should have a correct understanding.
It can be seen that in order to give full play to the advantages of Tai Ji Chuan's inner strength, we must first understand the methods of Tai Ji Chuan's inner strength, then master the ways and laws of inner strength, and then carefully ponder and practice hard. In the end, every practitioner will gain something. Practice for a long time, practice by yourself, practice by yourself? .
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