Greetings. It has been awhile. The primary reason is because I introspect amidst my training routine. I don’t find it necessary to document everything I go through. There are some that are comfortable doing this but I have never found it satisfying. So! What is new? I found the “key” to unlocking the internal system. …
A couple of weeks ago, I asked both Sifus what an ideal training routine would be? Here are their responses: Sifu Eddie Chan I think an ideal training routine is one that suits you, and you should know better than others. As a sharing, I used to “apply” the wing chun way in my everyday …
Manner of teaching has shifted to internal – March 2019 Steps: 1) Understand what not to do. That is use muscular force 2) Relax i.e. drop the shoulder girdle i.e. open the upper gates 3) Keep the relaxation active and focus ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Additional steps needed to take/ elongated and detailed info: 1) Releasing shoulder to …
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It’s been awhile since my last post. Events have transpired, circumstances have changed (slightly) In short, there was no real reason for me to write anything. I wasn’t up to the mark. Hence I did not write anything until now. I wanted to share an interesting experience I have been having by training alone. I …
We don’t want anything other than chi or prana training. It is kind of pointless to hone techniques that cannot be updated to every situation. Reading the book, Mastery Mindset, the author (a practitioner of karate and aikido) has written about his own experiences facing and learning from masters who have a high level of …
If you are learning martial arts to fight – and you wish to fight other human beings – then why not join the military or become a mercenary. If these martial arts truly were made for war and for combat in life-or-death scenarios, why not test them out in the best manner that you can? …
So I was working on the punching the other day and I decided to “go hard.” Doing combos, moving around, using energy – that kind of stuff. After a minute or two I was getting winded. I was sweating and though not actually out of breath, it got my heart racing. Then I started thinking …
I am putting up this article as a reference. Link: http://www.meditationiseasy.com/meditation-techniques/vigyan-bhairav-tantra-14th-meditation-technique/ 14. Place your whole attention in the nerve, delicate as the lotus thread, in the center of your spinal column. in such be transformed. For this sutra, for this technique of meditation, one has to close his eyes and visualize his spinal column, his backbone. …
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My training is going half-way nowadays. I figured that after a Vipassana session, I could get back on track with relative ease. That and I could move to more impressive measures such as isometric kung fu exercises – horse stance, zhan zhuang with tan saus, separating the joints. It hasn’t worked out that way. Every …
From what I understand, chi sau is the movement – usually of hands – once a bridge – connection, contact – with the opponent has been created. This process is usually used to 1) improve sensitivity 2) improve reaction 3) allow for focus upon multiple variables – in cases of “drawn-out” battles. I have seen …
