Intro to Ba Fa Wu Bu: First Half Full Lesson

[@danielperezcabezas109]

I´ve been practicing Taichi since 1990 but I still like and enjoy your explanations.Thank you!

[@AipingTaiChi]

Thank you so much 🙏❤️

[@isaaclee1634]

Thanking you again for your clear explanations, I really am glad I found your channel few days ago. In these few days I feel enlightened and have a greater understanding to Tai Chi

[@AipingTaiChi]

Thank you so much 🙏❤️

[@pdhelman9933]

Thank you for this intro. I have been looking for a verbal explanation as well as visual demonstration for quite some time. You really take the time to explain all movements and postures with each step.

[@AipingTaiChi]

I'm so glad you found this helpful 🙏❤️ This is a clip from my weekly Ba Fa Wu Bu class that I teach in-person and online. If this video gets traction and it looks like there's interest in more, I'll post more clips from the class.

[@margaretirvine3267]

Even her voice is calming.😊

[@AipingTaiChi]

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[@mikehu8079]

Excellent explanation. This is truly the best training . It is both concise and precise. Thank you for sharing.

[@AipingTaiChi]

Thank you so much 🙏❤️

[@sergioguillen1037]

Beautifully explained!!! Thank you so much for making and sharing this lesson.

[@AipingTaiChi]

🙏❤️ I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[@sifuhanyfarouk1]

First of all I would like to thank you for sharing these videos and these detailed information with us, and I am looking forward to seeing the second half of this great lesson, regards from Egypt.

[@AipingTaiChi]

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[@lsporter88]

Heavenly. One can forget that you're teaching a Combat Art. Great lesson.

[@peacebe2u480]

A combat ? Join UFC.

[@lsporter88]

@peacebe2u480 Most people don't know the Martial side of Tai Chi. Take another, much deeper look (research), then we'll talk about the UFC.😉

[@Ash-fd5yi]

Loved learning along and practicing at the end~ Thank you! 💗

[@AipingTaiChi]

I'm so glad 🙏❤️

[@40JoCharles]

Soooooooo much information in there. Thank you so much for sharing. 🙂🙏🏼☯️👊🏼

[@AipingTaiChi]

I'm so glad you enjoyed the video 🙏❤️

[@mariamuhr4450]

Excellent explanations and definitions. Thank you.

[@AipingTaiChi]

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[@johnryan4104]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge you are fantastic and I understand what you say because you are so clear and helpful I'm a Big fan of yours and keep on learning as I make full recovery. Sending you a fulfilling day with joy. 🎶💜😊🙏☯️☮️🎯

[@AipingTaiChi]

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[@nathalielopez9772]

Great lesson, thank you. 🙏🌸

[@AipingTaiChi]

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[@dedihartono1917]

Clear explanation. Thanks❤

[@AipingTaiChi]

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[@GyokkoRyuKosshijutsu]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@AipingTaiChi]

Thank you 🙏❤️

[@diody-z5k]

You are an excellent instructor.

[@larkhallman]

Thank you

[@jimshilleto5655]

This is certainly wonderful material and the teacher explains things so well. I do have a question about the very first move, - raising the arms. Everything else is explained very well, but I wonder what energies are involved in this simple action. In all the other moves the arms are carried along by an energy coming from the torso and especially from the vertical rotation, but obviously not in this first movement. I guess that there is a separate energy coming from a rotation about the waist which bring the arms up. Please explain.

[@AipingTaiChi]

Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed the video 🙏❤️ The commencing move bringing the arms up is generated by the energy of bringing your weight down. Just like how when a ball's energy comes down into the ground it comes up. Hope that helps!

[@jimshilleto5655]

You stand still, then bring up the arms. I don't see any momentum from moving the weight down to moving the arms up. So I don't understand how this energy can generate something. There is no swinging of the ball, just dead weight. Please explain.

[@AipingTaiChi]

@@jimshilleto5655 In Tai Chi standing, we always stand with knees bent and pelvis tucked, lower back flat. So you can imagine there's a ball that can roll freely inside you, at your pelvic bone. If you imagine a ball rolling, visualize the top and bottoms of the ball. When the top goes down towards your back, the bottom comes up towards your front. Now imagine your arms are controlled by the motion of the ball where the bottom comes up towards the front. Just let your arms relax down by your side, slightly in front of your body. You should feel a slight motion of your arms coming up when you visualize the ball rolling inside your pelvis. Now visualize the top of the ball and this time when you rotate the ball where the top goes down towards the back, imagine this energy goes all the way down your legs and down into your feet and into the ground. If you keep your arms relaxed and slightly in front and still connected to the front of the ball that is rotating up, you should also feel the larger force connected to the energy coming down into your feet going into your hands coming up to your shoulders. Let me know if this makes sense and if you can feel that.

[@jimshilleto5655]

Thank you so much for this deep insight into tai chi! I have read about this but it was not experssed so clearly as you have done! This is very valuable information. I have tried to do what you asked, and I do get a glimpse of the energy coming from the earth, but it is just a glimpse. I am fairly old and maybe my energies are low or maybe I just need to practice more. I don't know. Do you have any references which would offer a practice to develop thiis process? I've read CMC and so forth and not gotten this level of understanding. Thank you again.

[@jimshilleto5655]

Hi, teacher. Sorry if I’m too persistent. You have my permission to ignore my replies. Trying to absorb what you’ve said, I think that the “energy” the body sends down thru the feet and the ‘energy” received back from the earth are different and I would appreciate any comments you have about this. The body sends down something closer to “connection” and the earth responds with something closer to universal love.

[@MrCooperAnthony]

great principles, thanks

[@AipingTaiChi]

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[@Sofialee300]

Bravo!

[@AipingTaiChi]

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[@ytb460]

I think master Lam made Tabletop form that could be done in a tiny flat.

[@AipingTaiChi]

Very cool!

[@ГеоргийАлекян-с2п]

Спасибо 🙏🙏🙏

[@fredricclack7137]

👁️ 📖 this form over a Decade ago from GGM Wu Bin's student Master Fang Wang ☯️

[@simpleandawesome1]

What is chi Can you explain in detail

[@AipingTaiChi]

Chi / Qi is energy. It's what you breathe in through your nose and pores. It's what circulates inside you. It's what you expel out. It also circulates around you. When you go into an old building and the windows have been closed and the air feels heavy and stank and oppressive, it's a lack of chi / qi flow. When you go into a well designed building and you feel a pleasant sense of flow in the space, thats flow you feel is chi/ qi. When you see someone who is really angry and ready to rip someone's head off, they are expressing what Chinese people call a "killing chi/qi". In English many different words convey different aspects of what is just called chi/qi in Chinese. That's just a few things that immediately come to my mind but hope that explains a little bit.

[@misterlau5246]

Objectively speaking, the correct way of breathing. It gives you the "energy". That is used in sports and singing too, breathing. Chi or qi is a word that appears a lot in Chinese language, and it is not to be translated as something like Kamehameha 😅 人，ren or jin. First in mandarin second in nihongo or Japanese, mean "man" "person". Same idea, it facilitates written language of course. Things in Asian languages may translate sort of poetic style, but those are the "beauty" of ideographic languages. Symbols are ideas, and not difficult in itself, but this is getting long and ma'am is talking about gravity and weightless. It's not a good idea to say gravity goes through you. It's a structure which feels like you lock into position with your legs and no tension. Same with torso. 🤔 You know what? Similar to the structure of a skater. They seem to have their torsos very loose and they keep like static and all the movements are from their waist down and following the movements of the board?

[@simpleandawesome1]

@@AipingTaiChi Thanks ❤️

[@許翠琴-g8w]

13:52

[@fredricclack7137]

🥚 held 😊☯️

[@許翠琴-g8w]

很可惜，不能翻譯成中文

[@AipingTaiChi]

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[@J3llyBean423]

AVP unfortunately..../ they can see it was actually about safety/ cause now . They stopped/ and no one is majeing bombs . ... But when he first started/ ... /the were actually makeing point to have a bombs blown up/ ... ANd then the confusion /by their "friends ..../

[@pkmllee7470]

Hope you really know what is TAI CHI . 人之患，好為人師！

[@misterlau5246]

😳 To be honest, I didn't know about this 8 pressure gradients with 5 vectors 🤓 Ok ok let's watch this ⚏

[@misterlau5246]

Alright basics.. I learned it like you are a marionette. Let's say a friend acts as a puppeteer, and pulls you up from the back of your shirt, the neck. Like following the movement of puppetmaster, without resistance Now, let's say you have a very good group of friends and you get more people to move you. Everyone can feel if there's resistance, well. 😅 Kids do learn peng, and it's useful and fun for structure and relaxation. In all internal arts I presume. ROOTED and.. Nice! Espátula turn and let go ⚏

[@AipingTaiChi]

That's a great description ❤️🙏