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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Simon Batten: As a matter of fact, I'm no scientist, but I thought that in the case of an explosion, one actually sees it before one fee...

The feelings associated with the use of a bow and arrow differ greatly, depending on whether you are in front of, or behind the arrow. http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/ubb/smile.gif I think "explosive" is a fair description of fajin from the other side. But to call jumping or a Lotus Kick &...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by outsky2006: I have a question about internal energy in taichi. I practice taichi for about three years. I have some shallow understandin...

Considering the alternative, stumbling backwards and banging your head, you will understand why sparrow hopping is popular in many styles of martial arts.

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Chris
Martial Arts for Personal Development

Kal, It is not a matter of being able to do it or not; anyone and their kid sister can do it. The trick is in doing it strongly enough that the other person can or must respond. What you feel depends on what you are willing to feel, what you are interested in ignoring and what you would prefer to im...

Firstly, you are probably encountering a combination of sensitivity and make-believe. If you have been doing Aikido, you should be accustomed to this! http://www.yangfamilytaiji.com/ubb/wink.gif Until you've developed your own sensitivity, it is impossible to distinguish one from the other. It is no...

yslim, I am agreeing with you. The point is that a living body is in constant movement, so if you are looking for complete stillness as a prerequisite for [whatever], you are only wasting your time. That is why I mentioned the air gap instead. Breathing is one form of movement, as is the heartbeat. ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by yslim: You was absolutely right if you "counted" the breathing and expanding the 'chongding' and the "undetected fullness...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">...When I said I have disproved this, I meant just that. I have asked three supposed "Masters" who claimed to be able to do this to do it to me.</f...

What is the first thing you do when your partner tries to establish a bridge?

While you are changing the contact point, or while that point is moving around in space, the incidental contact area may slide. That is one type of "sliding", but probably not what Audi is referring to. When you have contact area but no *point*, and move the entire area, that is a differen...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: To give an example, somebody was telling me that Eddie Wu, who is a formidable martial artist and can certainly apply it, wa...

Sorry, I thought my statement was clear. Walking and chewing gum are two things you can do at the same time, and that for practical purposes is the extent of their relationship. Is walking a kind of chewing, or vice versa? No, not really. If I characterize walking as a kind of chewing, then I am tal...

It is just nonsense to conflate sinking the qi with fa jing. (Cf. walking and chewing gum at the same time.)

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Audi: Why sink qi to the dantian and not all the way to the legs and feet? I believe it is because the dantian is where qi actually has ...