Xing yi quan & The Harmonies, I love that band!

There was a certain Yiquan teacher who dm'ed me news articles about Adam's brother after I had dared to suggest that Adam's system was the real thing and not what he insisted was 'bullshit fake martial arts'. Apparently then my own morality was in question if I was to continue training in a system. I didn't waste any more time talking to such a person tbh

Thanks for this! A past student of xing-I, I never understood the fundamental concepts behind the fourth, fifth and sixth harmonies.

Thanks for sharing and allowing us to benefit from your chats

This is beautiful.

Could you drop the original old videos? 👌🏿😉

Most don't know the juice inside them must be squeeze, pushed and pulled all over. Some don't have the patients to build or they fear the chi. Maybe they don't know chi is real.

Can you please make a video for Bagua, similar to the one you did for Xingyiquan?

Kind of a new Episode of 'The Animatrix Saga' with Damo Mitchell in is first role of the genre :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYabg6ikq6eFkJo

So many dead ends and mis-understandings in this practice 🙂

After transformation, does a Hsing-I body look like a Tai Chi body? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick ?

I’m thankful you two could return with this.

Many leak and can't fill.

Thank you!!

Is this advanced or can a beginner practice ?

Fantastic chat!!! ❤🔥❤️🔥

Excellent! Thanks.

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Fabulous chat, thank you both.

Great talk. Wondering if the eventual abundance of qi in the spine resides in the bone marrow, spinal fluid and brain? As in the xi sui jing principles. Meaning it can be cultivated using different methods (albeit the same thing) then utilised in tai ji quan? The dragon body is kundalini? Same energetic experience? I liked the explanation of lineage too, many of the daoist lineages have lots of great books and info but not many publicly skilled practitioners that ive found, so it just comes across as esoteric theory. Not something that can be attained. I truly hope you two create a podcast together or a course or something. Im very grateful for both your online schools. Thanks

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Hi, I enjoyed this discussion and it prompted me to watch more of your videos. Would you mind explaining 'the cavities' or linking me to other episodes where you discuss that topic? "Chi adhering to the spine" is also of interest. It would be great if you could discuss that also. For example, the questions which occurred to me from this video were the following: How to generate 'chi', since it seems the most important first step. The reason I ask is because I was taught, as no doubt others may have been too, different methods of doing this. For instance, my first encounter was through aikido, where the idea was to use the mind, combined with long yogic breathing, to bring or attract chi into the tantien. In three months, this produced a hefty dose of strong energy. My friend who did this with me, half an hour a day, used to go home after work and chop beer crates with his bare hands because it was quicker than using an axe. You might say, we developed axe-like hands and arms. I abandoned this method because, although I became strong, I felt we were clashing too much. We would inadvertently hurt each other in training, without meaning to because the energy was too strong. The second method I learned was to imagine holding a beach ball out in front of me and imagine pumping air into it, feeling the pressure. The ball can then be moved up, down, even inside the body, as necessary.

Good to hear you 2 talk. Funny and eye opening.

So if you have burnt yourself out at age 50 owing to a mid life crisis of excessive sexuality with few orgasms, sudden crazy addiction to porn and astral sex and weed, would 8 brocades help along with Chinese herbs( been taking them for 7 years but currently have limited funds, I watched the video and get the less stimulated, better diet thing , I meditate daily but have been sparodic in my practice of chi lung , I normally use don fiore 8 brocades and twenty minutes with Lohan Patting on you tube, any recommendations to help ??

Have you guys gone a podcast on all the different "jin's"? Fajin, Nei Jin. Etc?

Aaah goody

Damn it Damo! I'm busy! Stop posting good content all the time! ❤

Those demonstrations are looking pretty animated!

You do requests!?! Bagua! Bagua! Several times I've heard you mention that the internal aspects of bagua are different. Would love to hear more.

This Fa Jin Facebook Group is so funny... all they do is telling each other that there is no Fa Jin ... and then throw a thousand different ways at each other of how to most certainly not do TaiJi. The other Thing they do is discrediting teachers who actually share proper knowledge 😂 and that is all they got... properly entertained me for a bit ❤

Thanks Damo for an indepth preview of the art. It seems to me that in this art, as well as taichi, your whole journey is about building up as much qi as you can which then becomes jinn and this jinn is what you use to basically fight with an opponent; but it feels like a waste of time to use your jinn to disable your opponent because your depleting yourself. Adam Mizner showed a scene in one of his videos where he usedhis jinn power to hit an opponent who had trained in iron-body or iron bell training. A normal external punch wouldn't affect him by disabling him but when Adam used his jinn the opponent was in pain and couldn't take it despite the prior ironbody training. But everytime you use your jinn your using your own body qi, which is what xingyiquan is based on in the hidden or end stage of development, and thus depleting yourself no? Yang taichi is also very much based on this jinn power like xingyiqyan so would suffer from the same qi depletion however chen style taichi, even though it has jinn development training, used more qi-na and other joint breaking techniques that does not appear to be using jinn on first glance, or maybe it does, so wouldnt chen style taichi be the a better or more non-wasterful art to focus on seeing as xingyiquan and Yang taichi (and any other art that uses jinn) deplete your chi. Obviously this is not going to be a major impact to your health unless you fight every day and use up a lot of jinn/qi daily but otherwise your retaining what you develop during jam-jong static postures so its not a waste. Would you say chen style taichi is much more non wasteful than xingyiquan or yang taichi given that the chi is largely kept inside the body to strengthen the dantien and body, given that they mainly focus on qi-na which does not emit jinn outside the body but instead the dantien moves inside the body to direct the limbs to lock someones arm or neck in order to twist, shear and break?

When you feel it

My teacher has been a student of Damo's - has only good things to say about him. Anyway, we often chuckle together about the idiots on the internet who seem to make a career of slinging mud. It's their motivation that remains so mysterious. If you doubt someone's skills, you can ignore them, or find them and see if you're right - in an honest spirit of enquiry I mean, not by causing trouble - but spending time and energy slandering them only proves the stupidity of hate.

Wow! Anime Damo!

I'd pay for the uncut version of this episode not because I want to shame anyone (I guarantee I won't even know any of these people) but because I know it'd be funny! I listen to your podcasts just as much for the English banter (which I miss living in Australia) as I do for the information. Glad you both addressed this though in such a comical and light hearted way - as even I have heard this story about Adam and I don't spend a second on those toxic FB groups.

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41:47 harmony 6

32:44 harmony 5

23:15 harmony 4

Six harmonies: 18:36

These 6 harmonies sounds very interesting. Do you have classes where it's possible to come and learn this, and nothing more than just this, or do students need participate in other styles like Taiji or Bagua to learn this 6 harmonies?

Very interesting, I re-plaid a few sections 🙂

Excellent!

we appreciate your help, Damo!

Six Harmony concept is for the whole XingYi quan training not just for San Ti. Same goes with Dantien and Qi development. You develop the skills from San Ti, Five elements, Twelve Animals and etc.

Clean movement. Well done

Thank you Damo for helping me to understand the six harmonies better and the correct path to obtain the method. Brilliant but simple and concise explanation and you're podcasts are very useful, welcome and important for we who listen.

San ti is just like zhanzhuang in taichi if you do it correct. There is no difference in dantien. There is only one (lower)dantien. How you use youre dantien is differend in this system. Taichi didnt had zz in the first place until they saw how good it was.

Although it's a podcast, you've demonstrated humour is a great antidote.