What would also interest me is how can you perceive the fascia and connect with it when your opponent is wearing thick clothing (e.g. a leather jacket)?

This is so great Susan, I am happy to have found you! I have been practicing internal and external martial arts for a very long time, but never heard of it from a master, I wonder why?

how should we be breathing during the movements? 79 yr old getting back to golf and have always wanted to learn this. Love how Monty completely relaxed when you started this!

My cast was so tight across my hand and beyond my knuckles. I couldn't spread my fingers or bend them and my fingers felt clamped together. Fingers swelled went purple, I wish I'd gone back the day after, but it was one week later when they added the full castover the back slab. I got them to trim some of the cast off, but it wasn't enough, another week and i went back, yjey reluctantly trimmed a little more of my cast. From day two i was trying to do the excersize because I know how inportand it is. I'm week three now and still have painful bruising a hard lump in the crease of my elbow and. My elbow bone is very tender. I think my fracture is a smiths fracture, from looking at your diagram. I am really disappointed with the cast up to now and I don't think I can stick another three weeks.

As expected .. a whole mess of " Mma " closed minded junkies ...

When you say connect it to the elbow, the shoulder "etc... How do you connect it when you're touching your hand? Do you merely just intend it and it works? Thank u!

7 herniated discs! Wow! I just have 1 and have been going through physical therapy. My acupuncturist recommended qi gong and slower methods of exercise. thank you for this video!

Hello! When you say you send energy, what do you mean by that? What kind of energy are you sending, and where are you sending it from and to? And how do you do it?

Many thanks for sharing, it gives me very important information

Doesn't work in the ring. Doesn't work in the street. Anyone with fifteen minutes of actual fight experience will devour you. Convincing someone to consider Taichi for self defense is reckless and dangerous.

Notice that her thumb was on the same spot for each demonstration. She was pressing on a pressure point. Fascia is connective tissue that keeps everything in place. There is no innervation (no nerves).

Yes excellent explanation 😊

Wouaw. Nice video. This is peng energy? Thank you for you very good explanation.

Your feet seem wider than your shoulders. Is there a particular reason? Thank you.

Well said. 👏👏☯️

O Sensei was four foot eleven. He would never raise up to you. You had to come to him and he would throw you like a rag doll.

I ❤ your videos

I can buy the fascia trick but saying that you can be stronger by using fascia is BS. Every day a new form of bullshido is born.

Thank you so much for such a clear, useful explanation.

This is the first time I found an explanation for what it means: Touch the fascia. Your explanation is excellent. Thank you very much.

This is very interesting. I'm an Aikido practitioner, (10 years - but quite a few years ago - including 4 years in Japan) - Ki no Kenkukai (Ki Society) style. We had Ki examinations, as well as the Aikido grading tests for each grade, and a strong emphasis on learning Ki. I've always thought that Tai Chi is the Chinese equivalent - but it's not easy to access these inner teachings. For an exercise like this, we would conceptualise it in terms of Ki. It works, too. But to make it work you have to learn some Ki techniques and practice them until they become second nature. Which were taught in a similarly matter of fact and replicable way to this demo. Now I am very curious, and I've subscribed! I've always thought of Ki as taught by Tohei-sensei as being quite dense and almost physical, not at all the more subtle energy that some schools talk about. The fascia is similarly very mysterious (to we westerners!) and managed by subtle biological energies that, while perhaps being explainable by physics, are not quite as mechanically physical as Western medicine conceptualises. At this stage of my life I am too old to want to step into a dojo again... but I still practice my taiso, and I love that those years of Aikido practice have helped me integrate some of those energy concepts into my being. So I look forward to some more insights and learning from this channel!

Nice !

Thanks, good explanation !

Fantastic video. You explained something that people talk about but cannot describe accurately. Wow!

Again and not trying to be negative, but you are standing in a stance much easier to apply forward energy and he is standing in a nutreal position much easier to push back along with he locks his hip and does not let the force go beyond his waist line so he is easy to topple. Its better to teach how to do than to make people believe something other than natural body mechanics

Not trying to be negative, but the taller woman just tries to stabilize her core but not sink weight from the forward force down to the ground, so she is easily toppled, If maybe she knows the basic concept of keeping a pliable waist and sinking the force into the ground the outcome would be different. Try and control someone's fascia when both people are in movement. I respect you as a teacher,

I had a serious accident, 35 years ago, my knees were shattered,.bone, cartridge, ligaments...This really helped me thanks ❤

Enjoy your teachings! Insightful and useful. Thank you!

Hawkins, David R., M.D., Ph.D. "Letting Go". Hay House, Inc. Carlsbad, CA. 2012

I am happy that I switched from Silat and Escrima to Tai Chi in 2008! I started Silat and Escrima in 1993, when I was 16 YO. I made a 41 second Tai Chi video short you might enjoy. It's far out for me that in 4 years, I will be a 20 year Tai Chi Practitioner! I used to be aggressive and once yelled at my Father for asking me a question about Martial Arts.

30 years of martial arts, only need this one video to change my mindset. Mindblowing

this is one little trick, not really Tai Chi Kung Fu, But can explain some of the rules of Tai Chi，for example，No reliance on Force to win in Tai Chi.

Hi Susan,i saw your short video with Jordan Misner from wind river tai chi,can you explain or tell us how he does that,bouncing you around.

Good that the form includes something of a soaz muscle stretch. That can be overlooked even by Phys. Therapy Dr's. (But I'm not bitter.) I love the Fa Jin exercises!

Not every day I get to see a form that includes Cannon Pounding. Very nice!

WOW

Interesting! Actually, the full lesson was huge. Thanks

Your teacher must be awesome!

This is an awesome lesson. Thanks!

Thanks!

This is helpful. Thanks!

This is helpful. Thanks!

🙂🙏🏼☯️

Also, try the movement the original way and end with the edges of both hands in alignment, middle finger stays in contact with the hand (at H7), is intended to align and generate a huge amount of chi.

It is real, and can be learned through practicing,. Once you have the experience of bouncing back from a wall by directing chi through your body towards the wall, you will believe.

Nice video! But at one point you say "I´m not using muscle". Please explain, how a human movement ist possible without using muscle!?

In your Facebook link the letter "i" is missing at the end. Nice video!

The name of this movement should really be: Choosing not to wear coat, because one is simulating the movement of tossing a coat over the right shoulder instead of wearing it. But, from an acupressure view, the movement connects the pericardium (middle finger) to hand (and heart) at H7. This movement was ORIGINALLY done just as you reasoned it out. Even the shift back and right foot toe raise play a role in this heat meridian posture.

Thank You for this explanation it takes the ambiguity out; and gives it meaning , I suppose its like moving; spiraling with the tea cups, and weaving with the cups half full around, and then heat from the tea expanding into the ethereal,🪡

Cool❤