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Quote: Originally Posted by furtom Hmmm. I'll have to mull this over for a while. Yes, I train to strike on the exhale. I never perceived it as a problem before. I would think in a more realistic setting, the breathing would take care of itself, but this comment gives me pause, all the same. My Xingyi Sifu was a fighter and he watched everything that his opponent did and he watched the rhythm of attack as well as breathing and if someone...

thanks for the info, i did not know that film was affiliated with a particular sect. Quote: There is truth in your last point, but it is as well to bear in mind that while our perception of a phenomenon undeniably creates our Subjective reality, it does not create the objective world. this is true, i guess i usually operate on the assumption our subjective reality is more important. whether it is or not, i would say that the existence of chi...

Quote: Originally Posted by jarrod for me, i don't really see a difference. the results are the same whether it's ki, electromagnetic energy, a placebo, or whatever. the tao that can be named is not the tao, etc. take feng shui for an example. they say that if you arrange your furniture this certain way, it will bring you good luck because of how it directs the chi flow in your house. even if you don't believe in chi, you know...

Quote: Originally Posted by jarrod there is a really excellent film called "what the bleep do we know?" which is a layman's explanation of quantum physics (it's really a fun & accessible movie, don't worry). one of the things that it covers in pretty good detail is the extent to which reality is equally defined by perception as it is anything else. a good analogy (provided by the author alan watts) is...

Xue, wow, my tai chi Sifu is in favor of breathing too!! What a coincidence!!! Amazing what just natural body movement will do for circulation of chi. I know the first time that I rooted for real, and sunk, it felt like hands coming up from the earth and holding my feet in place. It was at first weird but now I enjoy the fact that at 5'4" 150 lbs hard to move me........Dr. Yang defines it as part of electric energy of body and...

Along those lines, when we try to communicate something, we try to let the receiver connect the new words or concept to something with which the receiver is already familiar. Learning builds on existing experiences. "watashi" means "I". "caress it like you would a woman". "it's like riding a bicycle". "qi feels like electricity, like a tingle". Now...

Quote: Originally Posted by ggg214 in my personal opinion, if you are not a daoist and under a good master's conduct, it's better to train the taiji as one kind of martial art. I don't get it. Explain this please.

I believe it begins with good body mechanics, but it's way beyond that. So yes, I guess I do believe in qi. In my opinion, a lot of these intangibles are expressed in some manner so we can wrap our puny little brains around it: I mean, what makes a body alive one instant and dead the next? Identical twins are genetically identical, but they're not the same person.

Quote: Originally Posted by Nebuchadnezzar I don't get it. Explain this please. i mean qi's training is totally different training, such as qi gong or dao yin（导引）. in taiji's training, external movement will lead your breath or qi on the right way. my master always say: when you are thinking of qi, you lose it. in taiji, there is a saying:there is your mind, there is...

Quote: Originally Posted by Xue Sheng As my last Xingyiquan Sifu said. "If you only strike on exhale I will attack right after you exhale because you have no more power to strike." Hmmm. I'll have to mull this over for a while. Yes, I train to strike on the exhale. I never perceived it as a problem before. I would think in a more realistic setting, the breathing would take care of itself, but this comment gives me...