DMP #19 - Joey Nishad - Zhong Ding, Sinew Changing & Tai Chi

Joey Nishad chats about his Taiji training, weight-lifting as a part of Taiji, sinew changing principles and more. This conversation takes place over Zoom and so the picture quality reflects this.
Joey Nishad has an eccentric take on life and a profound take on internal arts training. This is combined with a great sense of humour and so this talk should be both enlightening and entertaining.
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Joey Nishad: / @bewholeyoga

[@taijicreature]

“Looks like you are trying to trick kids into joining your pickpocketing gang.” 🤣🤣🤣

[@bewholeyoga]

Hahaha totally!!! 😂

[@TheManilio]

Met Joey at Barcelona this year. Lovely guy, really skilled and funny!

[@trump9075]

I was terrified when I realized that he'd stay like that for the entire video.

[@urielpolak9949]

Joey😂😂😂 pleasing to the eye . People pleaser .

[@bewholeyoga]

Thank you for the kind words 😅🤗 I do try!

[@kenbaggs2075]

This felt like such a cliche and superficial discussion and not from your side Damo you really did try. I was waiting for Joey to get to the heart of matters but you only got as far as the superficial guts quite literally LOL. I was staring at Joey's belly while watching the whole 2 hr thing, I was in awe, can't believe I did that.

[@garfieM.-uu3kw]

a vary nice looking belly button. Joeys navel chakra must be full of chi and violet light

[@kenbaggs2075]

@@garfieM.-uu3kw Er .. I didn't mean what your thinking but whatever floats your boat

[@pudpudp]

Great talk...thank you❤❤❤

[@intuitivesean443]

The whole back thing and living art thing is a eye opener

[@bewholeyoga]

Thank you for watching. Glad you found some of the topics of conversation, thought provoking 🤗

[@nathanfoust7989]

Love Joey's energy, great respect!

[@mocampbell5298]

Soooooo good 👏 THANKS

[@HillardEarl]

@ Joey likes meeting new people more than practice. But Joey understands more than a person Joey meets.

[@Blackridy]

I first thought Joey was just another weird jester, now I see you! Cudos to you! I enjoy the talk :)

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

Joey is so fun

[@TheBuddyShowWorldwide]

Joey and I were supposed to meet up in Chiang Mai when he went to The Martial Camp. Some day. I did some De Thouars silat and an ounce of PK kali a lifetime ago.

[@bewholeyoga]

Sorry I didn't get a chance to meet up last Martial Camp sir! I'll be in Thai again in winter 🤗

[@easternmovementprinciples4799]

Good talk, love your approach Joey you controversial man you 👊

[@chrismckenna7675]

Good comment on lineage heads. Are you aware of any lineage heads of Internal systems that are genuine? I studied with Tung Kai Ying and Alex Dong for many years. Is it that bad everywhere? 0.000% Internal.

[@michaelj.4187]

Joey is too funny, sending love and peace to everyone...

[@DragonIndigo]

Hi Damo, I love your channel, great work! What do you think about the electric energy practices?

[@LotusNeiGong]

I think the wrong people study it and for the wrong reasons :)

[@DragonIndigo]

@@LotusNeiGong if I got what you've said correctly then I agree hehehe

[@user-di5pc6xq1e]

What are the electric energy practices?

[@DragonIndigo]

@@user-di5pc6xq1e In the high levels of internal training you can generate electricity for health and other things, even phenomena such as telekinesis (electrostatic tension with an object theorically), electrokinesis, pyrokinesis... It's really interesting... it's very famous the documentary "Ring of Fire" showing mo pai nei kung... every good internal style gets to the same results, just the right information and a lot of training, years and years...

[@TheMan-mr8sv]

As a new practitioner, I am curious about the part of the yi jin jing that has to do with hanging the flesh off the bones. I wonder if using momentum by swinging your arms around but trying to keep the bones close and letting the flesh go using the momentum to separate the flesh from the bones. Would this work?

[@nameless5850]

Basically you muscles are pulled and elastic, when it’s relaxed it’s hanging like saggy skin, when tightened it’s like rubbery bands. Like a whip

[@urielpolak9949]

My first love kuntao silat. It still has a great appeal to me

[@bewholeyoga]

Awesome! 🤗

[@intuitivesean443]

Joeys humor seems to be a combination of Philippines ,Hawaii and Buddhist too test the students

[@bewholeyoga]

😅😅😅 glad you enjoyed our chat 🤗

[@jamesm5192]

Didn't realize there was a Taiji lineage from San Fran until today! 🤡

[@Velasca]

I know what Joey refers to when he mentions the Yang Shaohou quote and the Alex Dong correction that was unacknowledged by the sex doll guy.

[@TaichiOsorno]

Hilarious!! 🤣🤣

[@michaelj.4187]

six harmonies and eight methods of mind and intention, maintaining space/time and time/space confluence, coherence, harmony, and balance...oh my...did I say that? indeed I did...hehehe

[@urielpolak9949]

If those incompetent teachers were not around people would keep searching and maybe find?! I have been baffled about people sticking with incompetent teachers for years. When the knowledge is right in front of them. I am thinking willfull ignorance plays a part. They show up day in day out for year after year following instructions that never get clear to them the what and why. It will rain manna from heaven one day , just keep performing the empty rituals.There is a deep wish for being perceived as/identified with taichi chuan not the burning desire to come to knowing.

[@tivtag]

My guess is that it depends on the goals and clarity of the student. Maybe his/her goal is to simply be part of a community or group.

[@urielpolak9949]

@@tivtag yes true.

[@bewholeyoga]

Yeah! This is a complex issue. There are both personal and social aspects involved, in my experience. On the social front, when someone chooses a teacher and starts training in that school, a decision has been made (for whatever reasons originally) to join a camp of thought (like choosing a sports team to support, perhaps). And once that decision has been made, this teacher/school becomes their "tribe" and there is unfortunately a cognitive bias to remain loyal to the "tribe". This is one side of it. On the personal front, people hate to think they were wrong in choosing the teacher/school. They don't even want to admit it themselves. They are embarrassed for the world to find out they had been wrong, sometimes for so long. So such people, keep making excuses to discount any evidence that may indicate the error in their initial decision. On the personal front,, there is also the unconscious desire to please the teacher and gain approval from the fellow students in the "tribe". And sadly, this is one of the reasons (some teachers actively try to isolate students from the greater martial arts community as well) why students isolate themselves to their "tribe" alone. They get tired of seeing/hearing things that are inconsistent with what they want to believe. If they hear anything that challenges what they need to believe, to stay with the "tribe", they get severely defensive. And there is also the illusion "it will work on people outside the school, just need to train for longer". So it is a complex issue with a lot of different personal and social insecurities and biases involved, in my experience.

[@urielpolak9949]

@@bewholeyoga yes i see that. The teacher isolating their students.I always think “jesus i made a fool of myself yesterday” now if i think the same tomorrow….. thats progress

[@tivtag]

@@bewholeyogaWith one of my first teachers I found it inspiring that he warned about the attachment of the student to the teacher and that his teacher once threw him out of her school when he developed an attachment to her.

[@stern4141]

Had to stop watching in the first 15 seconds. What the hell was that.

[@ytb460]

Forget the Yao stuff. Most ppl just follow the teacher. LiajianYu was good and wild. Wangxiangjie too.