when he does this does he use dan tian breathing the whole time

@AwesomeVed You really need a teacher - you can learn the basic postures from any kind of Wushu/Kung fu and even Taichi/Qigong class at times, but I would recommend finding a good teacher and take it carefully - don't force anything out of frustration. Look for a way to enjoy it comfortably and don't let any teachers disrespect you - if they do, then just leave and find a better one. If the teacher hasn't apparently gained any humility from their art, then they are probably practicing wrongly.

Im a beginner and really want to start learning but dont have money for classes or anything. can i follow these videos to learn? or do you know any websites that can help me?

@adityasandhu It is to improve joint flexibility and ease tensions in the body allowing you to be more oxygenated, as well as limber reducing stress and creating a harmonic environment and ideal to create healthy blood through cleaning of bone marrow.

I feel heavy legs!

@comrad1986 @comrad1986 I try the motions halfway but I have felt energized. In term of kungfu, my knowledge is almost zero. I'll to do complete the movement gradually and see the result; Tip from Erime (breath out when moving out of body and breath in when doing the opposite) is helpful

@comrad1986 @comrad1986 I try the motions halfway but I have felt energized. In term of kungfu, my knowledge is almost zero. I'll to do complete the movement gradually and see the result; Tip from Erime (breath out when moving out of body and breath in when doing the opposite) is helpful

@marsopilami187 Sounds like a good way to prepare in the morning despite not having any experience with this myself

@adityasandhu i wake up with this and the bone marrow cleansing (Xisuijing) together with some other ones. doing this gives me allot of energy though out the day i rarely ever get tired even during strenuous martial arts exercise. long term your body will create its own medicine and live very healthy.

actually, i am 66 years old, and practised it for more than 15 years. in the general outlines yarwer is right, "the tension should be through the breath/qi". But the tension is not only a mind tension like in Yi Quan, and the number of times that you have to do each movement is not stated

yeah

the tension should be through the breath/qi rather than imagining that you are physically causing tension - as in the iron wire forms of the hung gar system: whereby, you physically[and mentally] imagine shifting, pulling etc. a great weight, then the tension is exerted into the joints with turning movements and so forth in this form, it appears the idea is to remain completely relaxed and allow the correlation of opposing muscles/tendons to work out the correct strength "exertion" through qi

I have read that there can be no muscular tension at all- in fist form yi jin jing. One must visualize tensing his muscles but with no external movement. How it differs from another forms where tension is involved?

Dude !! I'm not what u would term a daily practitioner, but i do practise kung fu...the physical along with the theoretical....and i blend the two with the guidance of my sifu.........these exercises DO IN FACT WORK, BUT if you do it in a mere mechanical way (i.e copy the motions) you will not reap the benefits, to reap the benefits of this 'exercise' you must be an ardent student of kung fu...and u must practice this with vizualization and belief..

Basically, Chi Gong is to balance your mind, body and spirit. Da Mo great grandmaster created this for the monks to restore energy due to the bad circulation from meditation or any other reason you might encounter in this modern world. Good for health. My master Shi Guo Song had taught me this and I love it for my good health. movements are some what different from one another.

Hi, I am not a daily practitioner, but 'Visualised Resistance Training' appears to accomplish something similar - builds muscle through relaxation and tension without the use of weights (although putting additional pressure on the muscles and tendons apparently yields much higher results). This form also adds maintained/increased flexibility to the equation.

what exactly is this supposed to do to your body? anybody!! preferably a daily practitioner : ) your opinion will definitely be helpful thankyou respectfully

You're welcome! I'm glad that I could help you out with this :-) Good luck with the practicing, it's going to be tough, but you already know... ;-)

Yeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhh!!!! Perfect! I've made a search at internet at this moment and I've found a book at Amazon website that shows the diagrams of that technique and it's exactly that Chi Kung technique that I've mentioned that I had practiced in the past. Thank you so much my friend for helping me to find out what I was trying to discover for years. Your perception to realise what I had tried to describe was perfect. Thank you! Good luck!

The way you describe the set of excercises reminds me of Da Mo Wai Dan.

Thanx for the posting!!!! Buddha bless you!!!

the performer is Shi De Yang, right?

The core standing qigong - holding the ball is the same, generally, in Chen Xiao Wang's video and DaChengChuan. DaChengChuan can also be called YiQuan (Mind-form boxing), which has taken it's 'Yi' from Xing Yi - another internal martial art like Tai Chi and Bagua zhang - you've probably heard of this, but it sounds more like the art you described your teacher who went to Japan taught. Unfortunately this is the internal art I am least acquainted with. There are so many systems though - good luck!

I would very much like to find out what style of Chi King is that one I'd practiced when I was a teenage. Unfortunately my Si-Fu who has teached me this style of Chi Kung had to move to live in Japan and I never saw him anymore. I ended losing contact with him. But he was a very impressive master of Chi Kung. He has made very impressive demonstrations on martial arts tournaments at my country. He was able to stand above of an empty box of matches without crushing it, lika a levitation.

But Erime, it's not what Chen Xiao Wang teaches on video that you did recomend. I remember it was a set of positions that first we had to put a lot of strenght on arms and other muscles and doing the positions with the hands open, like we were striking with the palms of our hands. Then later we would have to change to do movements in same way but with clenched fist, like we were crushing something on our hands. I remember I always had got very sweated on classes, my clothes completely wet.