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by ChiDragon
Thu Aug 15, 2024 12:59 am
Forum: Website Announcements and Support
Topic: Breathing Technic...
Replies: 2
Views: 7742

Re: Breathing Technic...

The goal in breathing is try to breathe deep down to the abdomen. However, most people have lost their breathing habit. Nowadays, not may people can breathe down to the abdomen. Therefore, one must learn to establish a baseline. The baseline depends on how one can breathe deep down to a certain poin...
by ChiDragon
Wed Aug 14, 2024 11:47 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Original Tai CHi practice
Replies: 4
Views: 4336

Re: Original Tai CHi practice

Was recently on a cruise with a nice facility to do the form in. It much more difficult to maintain my balance in an environment where the very ground beneath you pitches and rolls. Hi MostlyWu It is not how unstable the ground that you are practicing on. The stability depends on how skillful the pr...
by ChiDragon
Wed Mar 23, 2022 7:04 pm
Forum: Tai Chi Health Benefits
Topic: Tai chi and weight lifting
Replies: 14
Views: 26977

Re: Tai chi and weight lifting

If one is doing Tai Chi and weight lifting at the same time, then, one does not understand Tai Chi nor does it for its purpose.
by ChiDragon
Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:45 pm
Forum: Tai Chi Health Benefits
Topic: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.
Replies: 65
Views: 87738

Re: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.

Who cares where the source came from or who says. Don't you think it is the thought that counts?
by ChiDragon
Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:58 pm
Forum: Tai Chi Health Benefits
Topic: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.
Replies: 65
Views: 87738

Re: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.

The author seems to be much more knowledgeable than I am on these topics (my specialty is in different areas). He provides contact information and lives in California (I do not know if he is anywhere close to you) so you may want to contact him for discussions concerning mitochondria, ATP, oxygen, ...
by ChiDragon
Sat Aug 01, 2020 8:13 pm
Forum: Tai Chi Health Benefits
Topic: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.
Replies: 65
Views: 87738

Re: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.

He is in Santa Barbara, two hours from me.
by ChiDragon
Fri Jul 31, 2020 6:59 pm
Forum: Tai Chi Health Benefits
Topic: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.
Replies: 65
Views: 87738

Re: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.

DPasek
So far, this is the best article among others you had ever posted. I hope you will get a good grasp of that.
http://www.feeltheqi.com/articles/rc-oxygen.htm#energy

Thanks!
by ChiDragon
Thu Jul 30, 2020 11:23 pm
Forum: Tai Chi Health Benefits
Topic: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.
Replies: 65
Views: 87738

Re: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.

[Note: the unsupported and un-researched extrapolations and assumptions that CD makes (and that his “house of cards” is built on) are analogous to saying that we know that a car does not run without gas, but we also know that it can run fine when it has normal levels of gas in the tank; then conclu...
by ChiDragon
Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:29 pm
Forum: Tai Chi Health Benefits
Topic: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.
Replies: 65
Views: 87738

Re: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.

Tai Chi has health benefits for all ages. The practice will increase the body's energy level regardless of age. The energy was generated by cell respiration during muscle contraction. The contraction of muscles activates the mitochondria to initiate the production of ATP to release energy. The produ...
by ChiDragon
Tue Jun 23, 2020 1:13 am
Forum: Tai Chi Health Benefits
Topic: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.
Replies: 65
Views: 87738

Re: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.

Our bodies require energy to carry out all the functions. We can make the body to function at its highest degree by providing the most power producing capability. Since the mitochondria require a continuous supply of oxygen in the electron transport chain cycle, It is because it is a less strenuous ...
by ChiDragon
Fri Apr 17, 2020 8:54 pm
Forum: Tai Chi Health Benefits
Topic: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.
Replies: 65
Views: 87738

Re: Tai Chi Practitioners should know about Mitochondria.

Since there is no evidence (that I am aware of) that the mitochondria in healthy Taijiquan practitioners is any different than in healthy non-practitioners, information on the mitochondria probably does not help us. CD’s post seems to be based on the assumption that there is an increased ATP level ...
by ChiDragon
Sat Feb 01, 2020 10:07 pm
Forum: Weapons
Topic: Tai Chi Sabre Demo
Replies: 0
Views: 7573

Tai Chi Sabre Demo

Greetings!

Here is my first video trial. It was intended to find my mistakes. Have your found any? Please put in your valuable comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBAHRqOtJDQ
by ChiDragon
Sat Feb 01, 2020 10:03 pm
Forum: Weapons
Topic: Tai Chi single edged sword
Replies: 3
Views: 8581

Tai Chi Sabre Demo

Greetings!

Here is my first video trial. It is intended to find any mistakes in the practice for improvement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBAHRqOtJDQ
by ChiDragon
Sat Feb 01, 2020 8:13 pm
Forum: Weapons
Topic: Tai Chi single edged sword
Replies: 3
Views: 8581

Re: Tai Chi single edged sword

Hi, Dan The OP called the Saber a single edged sword. I guess the author treated it like a sword. He has all the silky moves of a sword instead of a saber. I would like to see him to bring out the power and the swiftness like a sabre should. BTW I have an exact sabre as he has with two pieces of sil...
by ChiDragon
Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:11 pm
Forum: Website Announcements and Support
Topic: Short Forms
Replies: 3
Views: 5558

Re: Short Forms

FYI Cheng Man-ching learnt Tai Chi from the Yang style. However, he developed his own style which does not resemble the Yang style at all.