Tai Chi Fa Jin - Advanced Techniques for Discharging Chi Energy

Zusatztext “Any martial arts collection strong in Tai Chi needs this!” Informationen zum Autor Mantak Chia, world-famous Inner Alchemy and Chi Kung master, founded the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979. He has taught and certified tens of thousands of students and instructors from all over the world and is the author of 40 books, including Iron Shirt Chi Kung and The Inner Structure of Tai Chi. Andrew Jan is a senior instructor for the Universal Tao and a former Australian National Tai Chi and Wu Shu Champion. He lives near Perth, Australia. Klappentext MARTIAL ARTS / TAI CHI Fa Jin, an advanced yang style of Tai Chi, complements the physical, mental, and spiritual conditioning available through solo Tai Chi practice and the internal martial arts of Taoism. Fa Jin enables adepts to harness the energy of yin, yang, and the earth in the lower tan tien and discharge it as an extremely close-range yet explosively powerful blow to be used in self-defense and partner practice as well as in healing techniques. Integrating the teachings of many Taoist masters, including Chang San-Feng, the creator of Tai Chi; Wang Tsung-Yueh, the legendary 19th-century master; Bruce Lee, the actor and martial artist who made the "one-inch punch" technique famous; and the Magus of Java, a living master able to discharge energy in the form of electric shocks, this book explores the history, philosophy, internal exercises, and physical practices of Fa Jin. Drawing on Iron Shirt Chi Kung and Tan Tien Chi Kung techniques, Master Mantak Chia and Andrew Jan reveal the secrets to collecting yin and yang in the lower tan tien and discharging the energy with seemingly effortless yet explosive force. Illustrating several routines of the Tai Chi partner practice of "Push Hands" (Tui Shou), they explain how to apply Fa Jin techniques by "listening" to your opponent's intentions and countering the natural instinct to resist force with force through yielding softness and redirection. The authors also detail how to prepare for this advanced practice through stretching, meditation, breathing, relaxation, and energetic exercises. MANTAK CHIA, world-famous Inner Alchemy and Chi Kung master, founded the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979. He has taught and certified tens of thousands of students and instructors from all over the world and is the author of 40 books, including Iron Shirt Chi Kung and The Inner Structure of Tai Chi. ANDREW JAN is a senior instructor for the Universal Tao and a former Australian National Tai Chi and Wu Shu Champion. He lives near Perth, Australia. Chapter 4 Warm-ups and Technical Exercises Warm-ups can be understood from two perspectives. The obvious first is the Eastern or Taoist one. The second is the Western or scientific perspective. In this chapter both aspects will be mentioned. By offering both we allow the Western reader to compare and contrast in order to better understand both perspectives. This chapter will finish with specific warm-ups that the authors believe are beneficial to practicing Fa Jin and the Discharge Form. From a Taoist perspective the warm-up must provide a transition from our everyday mind and bodily state to that which is conducive to the successful release of discharge power. Chang San-Feng gives us an idea of what state is needed be achieved by a warm-up. He says: Whenever one moves, the entire body must be light and lively, and must all be connected throughout. The Chi should be excited and the spirit should be gathered within. Let there be no hollows or projections; let there be no stops and starts. Its root is in the feet, its issuing from the legs, its control from the Yao and its shaping in the fingers. From the feet, to the legs, and then the Yao; there must be completely one Chi. Technical Exercises Technical exercises have as their primary purpose the practice of a specific skill that is used ...

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• Autori: Mantak Chia, Andrew Jan
• Editore: Destiny books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.01.2012
• EAN: 9781594774287
• ISBN: 978-1-59477-428-7
• Dimensioni: 153 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Sport > Sport da combattimento, autodifesa