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As a Massage Therapist , I’m can certainly appreciate the importance of what’s being said here. I’ve never actually considered juxtaposing the words physical and literacy before but that’s a perfect description of the socially enforced absence of mind/ body connection so integral to health. As a Ba Gua and Xing Yi practitioner of meager skills, I move daily if only for a few minutes to keep the pilot light on. It’s literally a bottomless well that keeps on giving. Thank you.

Absolutely perfect

do you have any videos of yourself doing the yi lu and the er lu? i would like to see your form.

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Well done and explained. Many people miss the true understanding of the internal connection while practicing for years.

thank you!

while it is one of the most important postures in taiji, I suspect your movement is incorrect, in particular the movement of your left hand and arm. You should be able to see the difference between your movement (counter clockwise or 逆缠）and that in Yang style （clockwise or 顺缠）. Your movement does not show whip anymore.

So I have a very beginner but important question. When you are going through the different postures and animal styles during circle walking exercises. If 1 animal style seems to feel more natural to you than the others, should that be ur 1st

This was an excellent presentation. As an older Cheng Bagauzhang practitioner I enjoy being looked at early in the morning walking around a tree like a fruit loop. 😊

Woow Love it Short to the Point

Super thank you❤

Outstanding teacher. He simplifies the concepts and demonstrates them clearly. Western viewers will appreciate this channel. Thank you, James.

Thanks for adding nothing to application

I really love your channel.For merits really helpful in in learning the art of Bagua..I started with the natural school meaning"Orthodox"Just circle walking using the the mother palms with yin and yang.Around 4 years ago I began learning Wu Dang Tai Chi which meant for 4 years I couldn't practise my Bagua as simple as it was, until recently through the guidance of my teachers I've been reintroduced to Bagua.This time through the Wu Dang method.All in all I'm just happy to be able to practice Bagua and circle walking.Even though I've had to start from the beginning.Your channel and ways of explaining the fundamentals/theories is really helpful..Thank you so so much.I'm really grateful and thankful for the inspiration you provide us who want to learn this obscure system/art.My neighbours think I was nuts lol because all they saw was me walking around in circles..lol..Now they are starting to see there is a method..Principally, martial wise as to why..So they no longer look at me weirdly..lol.. Thank You for your channel.Much love and God Bless always..

This is a great summary of the differencies between the frames. Thank you from someone who has just started practicing the new frame 🙏

Cool video but it's difficult to hear you somewhat. Looking forward to watching more

Thank You

Love this title "Relaxed Alertness" and wish to add Relaxed Concentration of body and mind. A concept to live a healthy, happy life. In a world where our attention and time is commodified. One of the most powerful skills to have in life. Method of practicing relaxing of mind and calm attention to body. Much Respect

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This video deciphered the core elements of Bagua walking clearly and presented them elegantly. I enjoyed it in both watching and practicing.

Hello 🙏 Once again great video with so many "little" things of big importance. Since I really like the way how you explain such important moves 👍 Please can you say from your point of view something about Meridians , Dim.Mak .. vital point 🙏 It will be great to hear from you ! Wish you all best ... Neno from Croatia

Single Whip is iconic in Yang style; logos, and still photos used for a book cover, logo or whatever, are invariably either Single Whip or Squatting Single Whip. That's because Yang style SW is very pretty, the squatting version even more so. In Chen style, it's more likely to be Lazy Tie Coat. And SW is repeated often--about 10 times in the long Wu or Yang forms. Maybe it is indeed the most important move, if there is one. But I didn't come across anything convincing or explanatory in this post. It is more frequent, but that might be just because it's used as punctuation. Yang Style long for has bout 10 instances of SW, and 6 of the are before and after Cloud Hands! Wu style uses SW to define numerous short sections; my sifu, teaching beginners, always stops them at one SW or another. In Chen style, you can do this with Buddha Stomp. Robert Tangora gave many arguments in his book for Cloud Hands as the most fundamental and important movement in taiji. The Internal Structure of Cloud Hands: A Gateway to Advanced T'ai Chi Practice by Robert Tangora and Michael J. Gelb For a frequently used, bread and butter martial movement, SW yeah, maybe, but then again maybe it could be the palm strike as in Brush Knee Twist Step (Yang style). Again, I'm open to the idea that maybe SW is the most important. I just didn't see anything in this post that was convincing or explanatory, and there are other candidates: Cloud Hands especially.

This is the most beautiful teaching I have ever seen. (Bows deeply.) Wow!

So happy you're sharing this practice with a broader audience! It's amazing. 🙂🙏

JAMES, THANKS . WHICH STYLE OF XINGYI DO YOU TEACH?

Thank you, excellent tips.

A very good explanation and dead on as far as I am concerned. Studied for 20 years Cheng style spiral energies. Thank you well done.

Wonderful teaching

No offense but I’d like to know what dong hai chuan knew and not one of his disciples. None of them seemed to have passed on the essence. These are just movements you are dancing.

Thank you for detailed Info about Bagua ,Xing Ji etc. 🙏

Excellent, thank you

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Fascinating, thank you very much for sharing this information! Two ways to read "Yi" in Chinese at +2:00 (incoming or outgoing Sound<->Heart ) 🔉❣🔊

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Beautiful...thank you James...🙏🏼

Thanks for this !

Like your video as it’s clear and easy to learn. Heap thanks

They say that Xin Jia comes from Chen Zhaokui, but the Chen Village style to me looks different from other students of Chen Zhaokui's lineage. In fact, the so-called "Four Tigers" of Chen Village all seem to be at least slightly different from each other, but their Lao Jia are pretty close. Do you have a theory of why this may be the case? I know this topic can be "political" so if you don't care to speculate, I understand.

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Thank you. I've been looking for clear instruction on the Jiang 8 palms for a while. Thisis very similar to the set I learned years ago

Very nice/interesting uploads. Thank you - from listening, watching and copying I believe/know you could improve on this style by a long way - "leveraging" the/your feet from the heel-toe and viseversa rather than push - slide and including the tanden more. It would give you a more vertical stance wieght distribution, control and ease of movement. You work low with long slide-ins and steps. But! I know I am dealing with the human condition but! know problem, it's just info.

Its not. to butcher the quote it doesnt matter how effective a given segment is. you need the whole expression. you cant have this piece and that piece. it seems like that happens when you look at masters. that everything is pieced together but its not you are looking for it. i love tai chi but this sentiment is wrong. no part of tai chi is the most important other than the student the teacher and the mindset. thats it everything else is irrelivent. idk who your teachers teacher was even. if your teacher cant teach lol!

I am not qualified to debate the issue, but I have heard similar discussion about Wave Hands ... in Yang Style. Any validity to that perspective?

Excellent breakdown of the movements and application. Thank you.

Single whip is a bread-and-butter move of Taijiquan. It's just a martial primitive, a simple motion that can come out instinctually, can be used everywhere, is often decisive, and it can be spammed repeatedly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't forget that the main application of single whip is grabbing an outstretched arm with the hook, and chopping to the head with the free hand. That's the parent application. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "hook" is a "reactive hand" who's purpose is to clear an arm out from in front of your body. The chop is the "active hand" complement to the hook that is the actual "whip". If you like not being sloppy, you can use the "reactive motion" to lock the opponent's arm, and then continue on with the second "active" motion. The body turn is mostly emptying the central door to avoid a straight blow, or turning into a horizontal blow to stop it short and frame it away from your body. This body turn lets you wind-up a heavy strike when you turn back to chop into the opponent. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The chop can be to any part of the head. The neck is a rather obvious target of martial interest, but the chin or jaw I feel is the ideal target. A loose hammer fist dragged across the chin with a body-turn rattles the brain as much as any boxer's hook, but you don't have to worry about the possible immediate consequences chopping a training partner in the neck. I also feel that chopping at the chin tends to train the dodging reaction that leads into block touching coat variation of single whip (or the version I was taught anyway) much more instinctually. Once you chop someone in the chin a few times , they'll gravitate towards avoiding the bad sensation and learn to dodge on their own, without much if any instruction. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyway, basically no modern school of Taijiquan emphasizes the strike anymore. Because it's a really mean jarring application, and most people when they look to study "tai chi" they aren't looking to suffer mean and jarring experiences. What most people nowadays want when they do "tai chi" is to feel nice and have a relaxing, invigorating session is what they are usually looking for. Taijiquan can offer relaxed and invigorating, but I do feel people need to understand where this stuff came from, and to not lose the root and origin of the art. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyway, the takedown variation of single whip is the nice "safe space" version of the chopping idea. It takes the "power" of the chopping position to perform a takedown instead. Not to say that the takedown is not a valid technique. The whipping takedown is still a bread and butter technique of any school of Taijiquan, with many variations. The many variations of the whipping takedown are what I consider the main reason it shows up so many times in the form. The problem is that each school has it's preference, and they settle on just one variation for all repetitions in the form, when in reality, they ought to be practicing the many different variations, angles and entries into the single whip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Chen-Village looking version show here is usually a whip over the arm. When going over the arm, the main idea is to lever across the chin, to lock the neck. This robs the opponent of good posture, prevents them from turning into you, and causes their body to tighten up on itself. This let's you have the leverage to put them in the back-leaning posture, where the little hand roll occurs to finish dropping the opponent down into this new unsupported space below their head. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The rendition shown here was done very wide, like you were levering with the palm, which is the weakest version. Maybe that was not the intention but that's what it looked like. You watch the Chen village people and they tend to do overarm single whip very tight. "Touch your own cheek, turn and whip out". The idea in that variation is to lever across their face using your elbow or upper arm. LOTS of pressure there. It has the benefit that you're not likely to miss with you arm and end up on the wrong side of the opponent's head for the takedown. Granted if you have the Taijiquan in your body, it's a simple roll away and it's easy to fix, but it is an important consideration for the novice. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The most practical version of the overarm single whip is the medium sized version, where you frame across their face with your forearm, instead of the palm or elbow. It's neither too jammed up nor too far to be awkward, and visually it gets the point across to students of what it is that you are actually doing. You can obviously whip under the arm as well. These variations usually achieve the back weighted posture by propping up on the chin -- again with either hand or elbow -- in order to induce the back-leaning posture on the opponent for the takedown. I usually like the version that uses both, propping up on the chin with an invert palm, to make them back-leaning, and then rolling down on their body with the elbow to finish. It just feels like the "complete circle" thing to do. You can also whip across the body too and not just the head, and still have it work if you are well positioned, and block them from behind with your leg. These are variation from the step behind, which is very practical. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can also whip-down from the front. This usually locks the same side arm and uses the turn to throw them. You can also underhook on that arm and turn to takedown. Or you can palm the head with the free hand and turn to perform a headwheel takedown. The only thing is that at this point, the technique tends be not be called a single whip, and is usually considered a variation of a differently named technique, like cloud hands, or white crane, horse tosses mane, brush knee, sweep lotus, etc. This also is still ignoring the variations of single whip with joint locks, or whipping down by bumping with the hip instead of just levering down their head. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The underlying mechanic is the same though. Turn into a limb, grab, turn in to chop down. Whether it's striking or throwing, it's all single whip. In short, you could say that single whip is the mother of take-downs. Almost all of them in fact. So yeah single whip is very important! Not just to repeat the singular posture, but to understand the concept and application behind it. That's my take anyway.

Good video and interesting comments. From my experience, there are no right or left-sided techniques. The idea is that you learn the Lao Jia Yi Lu form from one direction first. Once you've learned the form in one direction you then switch and practice the form from the other direction. Therefore, both directions are covered.

Thank you James…wonderful lecture…🙏

very nice short lesson, thx . Greets from europe