My master from Wudang Temple teaches the principles as you teach them … I want to thank you for sharing Qigong with us.. glad I found you as I couldn’t afford to continue learning with my teacher . Thanks 🙏🏾 ❤❤❤
@nathancowans5607
5 ай бұрын
Hello, Andrew plitt Sifu, i still check in on the basic information. And i understand so much more now than i did when i started, im starting to use the right amount of tension and relaxation in order to progress.i miss your podcast updates. I hope all is well with you and your wife.
@pngo4636
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the basic video on practicing Zhan Zhuang. Very informative for me as a beginner. 🙏
@AndrewPlitt
3 жыл бұрын
I am glad to hear it is helpful for you. :)
@steflang146
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@AndrewPlitt
2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure. Thank you for taking the time to comment and thank you for subscribing!
@thinkchair96
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. It’s time to learn standing Qi gong!
@AndrewPlitt
3 жыл бұрын
I wish you all the best on your journey into standing qigong and all it has to offer! Thank you for taking the time to comment! :)
@shujiling213
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome thank you
@AndrewPlitt
3 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear you liked it.
@dhilludurai
2 жыл бұрын
|Thanks, very informative.
@AndrewPlitt
2 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it was helpful!
@barbaralyle6807
3 жыл бұрын
I am totally going to be doing this when standing in line at the store!
@AndrewPlitt
3 жыл бұрын
It is a pretty handy thing to be able to practice without anyone knowing. 😊 I do this pretty much any time I can. Doing dishes, standing in line, cooking, etc. Enjoy the extra practice on the down low!
@TaichiStraightlife
2 жыл бұрын
I totally disagree with your teaching concerning weight distribution... I tried it that way years ago and had some serious leg problems, some of them directly below the knee, etc., & had to go to a physical therapist for a long time... eventually, I came across William CC Chen's work in a paper entitled "The 3 Nails" and when I put it into practice it revolutionized my t'ai chi. Long story short, it's about how one should grip the earth with the INSIDE of the foot; under the big toe... well, I'll quote some of it here: "...When the entire foot is rooted, the three points on the medial or inner aspect of the sole are of particular importance. The first point is the big toe; the other two points are on the inner part of the heel and the inner part of the ball of the foot. These points are on opposite sides of the instep. I call these points “the three active nails.” When the foot is rooted, these three points grip like three nails penetrating the ground. In the movements of Tai Chi Chuan, these three points are aligned with the weight-bearing centerline of the upper body. They are very active and play a crucial role in our everyday movements. As we walk, the root foot of the three nails propels the other foot to make a step. They assist in serving a cup of coffee or tea, or even help our fingers to turn a door key." Anyway, when I went back to zhan zhuang utilizing the principles contained in The 3 Nails, none of my former problems came back, and my zhan zhuang too was revolutionized.
@AndrewPlitt
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I am familiar with William CC Chen's 3-nail concept. Thank you for taking the time to post an excerpt of it here. I am glad to hear it was helpful for you in your training. It sounds like your alignment was off and you were letting tension build up in your knees if this weight distribution was problematic for you, but it is good that you found something to help you correct the misalignment. That is one of the downsides to thinking that Zhan Zhuang is just about relaxation and failing to pay enough attention to internal structure and alignment of the body, it tends to cause problems that aren't easy to fix by letting the chi teach your body how to relax itself. There is a reason it is important to learn details from an instructor when learning things like Zhan Zhuang that seem so simple, it helps avoid injuries that land practitioners in physical therapy. The 3-nails that William Chen talks about are especially helpful for people who tend to pronate their feet because the focus at those points helps a practitioner keep support on the side of the foot they usually let collapse. The downside is that it can encourage supination of the foot if over-done. The upward draw at the Yong Quan point (discussed in a later video in this series) helps accomplish the same goal as William Chen's description without too much focus on either side of the foot, but I would encourage anyone to use William Chen's description if it helps them correct their alignment. Everyone benefits differently from different descriptions of similar concepts. If you have not done so already, I would highly recommend finding a skilled Zhan Zhuang instructor to learn from in-person so they can help you correct any other misalignments that have the potential to cause problems in the future but have not begun to cause issues yet. I wish you all the best in your training.
@TaichiStraightlife
2 жыл бұрын
@@AndrewPlitt - Thank you for responding... I'll just add, or correct, that rolling in, or gripping with the inner nails, is a correction not for pronation, but rather for underpronation, (or excessive supination) and also functions as a way of getting a better connection of Yong Quan to the ground. To address your final advice: I've found that it's been due to "teachers" (and doctors) that I've had to endure as much pain & damage in my life as I've had to endure, especially the first one, who kept telling me to pull my knees in opposite directions (to open my hips? I don't even remember why this awful advice was given me) while standing, back in the 1970s... which led to great pain and a forced cessation of all t'ai chi & zhan zhuang activity (& continual pain while walking), while I went uselessly from doctor to doctor for 2 years, all of whom tried to convince me that I had arthritis in my knees (even dramatically banging on the x-ray, saying: "Here it is, don't you see it?! Your arthritis!") and as a result I was done and had no choice but to accept my fate... this continued until I found an MD who was also an acupuncturist (so my insurance would pay the excessive per session costs). Long story short, he fixed me, all talk of arthritis revealed to be an idiotic fantasy. Since then, personal trial/error and continual bodily experimentation has been my most reliable ally. This sad life lesson has been proven to me time and again: many (and perhaps even most) authority figures have no idea what they're on about, and you follow them at your risk. PS- I am not including you in this blanket condemnation, just making a general observation, the result of a very personally costly learning curve.
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