Mindful Relaxation to POWER all movements!

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Here is yet another video on the subject of 'MINDFUL RELAXATION'.
Try this exercise out: Hold your Tan Sau and see if you can relax the muscles and release the tendons around the Elbow joint so that the joint is visibly and noticeably opened up. Then, See if you can keep this quality when someone is pulling down on your forearm. If you can, the final test is if you can freely move the Elbow Joint through the downward pressure of the incoming force.
This type of muscular and skeletal control can only be attained through what Master Chu Shong Tin called 'Nim Tao' (intention) which is cultivated through the correct self practice of the forms of this method of Kung Fu.
You can learn this system through step by step and detailed instructional videos on our Online School here: www.mindfulwingchun.online

[@KingDariusMartial-dc2nr]

I have seen 4 or 5 videos where you explained Mindful Relaxation Sifu Nima and they are all awesome info. Wish I could feel those arms in person!

[@MindfulWingChun]

thanks. And you can. Either in Hong Kong or at one of my open seminars in Germany, Thailand or Australia 👊

[@knogface]

Seems like a cool ass teacher, no ego, listens openly to students. I wish I was in Australia to become a pupil :(

[@MindfulWingChun]

Cheers for the kind words man. 🙏🏼 Actually am based in Hong Kong, but do travel around for seminars. Where abouts are you based?

[@danieloleary507]

knogface hey bro the guy who’s teaching in this vid is nima king his school is in Hong Kong but he has a online course also he teaches internationally when he is able to , and yeah nima is everything you said,I know he can walk the talk no bs!!!;)

[@knogface]

@@MindfulWingChun hey dude, sorry live in New Zealand assumed you were Ozzy because of the accent. I do abit of bjj here and have trained traditional tkd. Just trying to open some more doors

[@magicmushroom7410]

knogface i think Sifu said he is Iranian but grew up in Australia

[@MindfulWingChun]

@@danieloleary507 Cheers for the kind words bro

[@jasonsecretsword7606]

This type of power generation is much different to other internal styles I have studied. I had been doing CMA for 15yrs+ before meeting with generous and skilled internal WC practitioners and it still blew my mind. I had several ways(diff internal engines) of generating 0 distance power but none were truly 0 point power as they required internal movement, ground path connection or specific technique to release. With WC the power doesn't need internal "wind up" or even root as Nima demonstrates here. I can't wait to get back to improving and testing through contact but for now I am happy with my SLT and generous masters like Nima sharing some of their understanding.

[@MindfulWingChun]

I'm happy that you see some values to the info we're sharing Jason. I'll certainly be keeping it up and hope you continue your daily SNT practice 🙏🏼

[@hamidalikiani8543]

So now we can understand the secret of Tai Chi , and Chi Gong, is by relaxing the joint and having the energy flow without any barriers, as always thank you for sharing . I hope that you could provide us with some exercises while we are in quarantine considering that a lot of us practice daily and alone at home. Thank you again for everything.

[@MindfulWingChun]

Hi Hamid, are you on the online school yet? if not pls check out the main video on our channel for details for 1month free subscription during this Covid-19 period. There are over 9hrs of footage in the first month of the program

[@hamidalikiani8543]

@@MindfulWingChun dear Nima thank you for the reply yes but unfortunately I can not subscribe, I do not know the reason why but every time I tried It did not work.

[@MindfulWingChun]

@@hamidalikiani8543 thats very strange. Cause around 150people have used up the 1month free subscription. What happens why you try?

[@hamidalikiani8543]

@@MindfulWingChun I enroll the class and at the end the Button "Enroll in course" is not active basically they last part which is regarding the payment information is not possible for me to fill out because I live in Iran therefore the bank cards that I have are not international they are just used inside of Iran.

[@MindfulWingChun]

@@hamidalikiani8543 ah okay. thats a shame that the cards are not international.. Im originally from Shiraz 🙂

[@mhswingchun2247]

Woow... so detail... its inside of wingchun... its so open n explaining ..

[@MindfulWingChun]

Glad you think so 🙏🏼👊🏻

[@wingchun-simplekungfu7584]

Fantastic lesson again Nima. Please don’t feel reluctant to name what you’re doing as NKWC. Your knowledge and generosity with your teaching is exactly what CST would have wished for the passing on of his teachings. Sigung also continued to improve his understanding. I used to test these theories on my kids before they could walk. Amazing what an infant can do when they’re not aware of what you may be trying to understand. Movements without the use of muscle and force . Thanks. 🙏

[@MindfulWingChun]

Thanks very much Rob. NKWC :) I think Mindful Wing Chun (and CST Wing CHun) has a better ring to it, but thank you for always showing me your support and kindness. It means a lot!! ANd yeas Im not teaching both my kids and my son (who is now 7) is really beginning to pick up the ideas fast. pound for pound he punches harder than most of my adult students, haha!

[@uniforce101]

4.46 Nim Tao is not activated because you bring in your tail bone. When we bring in the tail bone and straighten the spine, the energy can flow. And when someone jumps back it is because the teacher has already reached the 2nd level of using Qi as Hand.

[@MindfulWingChun]

Exactly. Nim Tao is activate through 'Seng' which means to rise up (energy) from the tailbone to the top of the spine. It is easier achieved when the spine is aligned and upright, however at higher levels it can be done with out any special alignment of the tailbone or spine and at that level it is merely a flow through the spine regardless of posture :)

[@bhaskarrao3832]

Another amazing video and insightful inputs. Great job, keep it up.

[@MindfulWingChun]

Thanks very much for the support and I'm happy people appreciate the effort 🙏🏼

[@flinkytashladi]

You 5:14 rely on concepts of "tai gong," "sink," and "ning tao" to explain relaxation. I'd love to learn what those are. Do you explain those concepts in another video?

[@MindfulWingChun]

Yup Taigung is the internal core activation, Seng means to rise up through the spine. I there are other videos on our channel that explain these. Or you can check out our online school MindfulwWingChun.online and do thr 1 week free trial and in tnere there are some videos explaining them too

[@davidwilliams4837]

Great video. Thank you.

[@MindfulWingChun]

Cheers David :)

[@HealthFitnessMartialArtsDEng]

Just saw a couple of your videos one of my students sent me as I teach and explain. You and I sound exactly alike. That's why he sent your videos to me.

[@MindfulWingChun]

Ah nice. good to hear others around the world are teaching similar things. Which Martial Art are you teaching and where abouts are you based Darryl?

[@HealthFitnessMartialArtsDEng]

@@MindfulWingChun Mahalo for your reply! I'm in Seattle and part of Sigung Taky Kimura's and Jesse Glover's lineage. However, I've gone back to (re)learn the base foundation of Wing Chun which is different from JKD as you probably know. I found that going back to the base foundation improved my JKD immensely. And as you discuss, it comes down to mindful relaxation. It's even helping me with being grounded and immovable (long ways to go on that) vs traditional hard martial arts working on being taught and stiff to become immovable..... internal vs external.

[@whatever6590]

"mass times acceleration equals force" - Newton & Sifu Nima King.. 👍🏻

[@MindfulWingChun]

haha! Indeed it does. A very simple fact of force, yet not very easy to apply with the human body :)

[@ericfong8650]

Hi Nima, thanks for sharing these great videos. I had a question about the biceps in tan sau. Is your bicep muscle completely relaxed and flaccid? It is very hard for me. If I make a tan, then relax my hand and let it flop down (sort of like the fook sau in look sau), then the bicep releases. But once I turn my hand back into a tan shape, the bicep gets triggered again. Seems like I have more nim lik work to do!

[@MindfulWingChun]

Hi Eric, yeah the biceps and the tendons at the elbow joint go soft when I do it. and it's not about changing the shape of the hand. if you change the shape (like a fook sau) then obviously the biceps are not needed as much to hold up the hand and different muscles are used. I'm sure I'm still using some tension in the area but it minimal enough so that it feels completely flaccid. This is just one of many demos that shows that we are able to control the joint directly even while it's under incoming pressure. It's an attribute of Nim Tao. 👍🏼

[@ericfong8650]

​@@MindfulWingChun Amazing. Thank you, thank you!

[@maximuslaurie5139]

roll the circle a little more.

[@cancellingthebbq]

How does the rib cage react when the spine expands?

[@MindfulWingChun]

very good question, surprised you're the first to ask that on YT in all these years 😊 The rib cage also expands slightly (for in length, width and depth).

[@maximuslaurie5139]

Its ribs. I usually get my power from the pancreas.

[@trinidadraj152]

If I could see right, when you had the student touch your bicep, when you relaxed the bicep it looked like your bicep slightly deflated? Am I seeing that right? When you do that is there any slight tension or contraction left in your bicep at all? Or does just remove a lot of the contraction compared to when it is tensed normally?

[@MindfulWingChun]

Yes that's right. The bicep and the Elbow joint tendons open up ("deflate"), to the point that not much tone or contraction can be physically felt in those areas when touching it. But of course eventhough you can't externally feel any tension, there still is activity in the muscles, but its minimal and not in the same localized way that the biceps are usually used. So its not something that can be done normally without the control of Nim Tao. I actually had this tested in a sports lab in a university in Queensland Australia where they connected lots of tension detectors to my boceps and there was a screen that would should the muscle tension levels. When I put on the state while holding a 2kg dumbell the level of tension dropped by 7 times.

[@trinidadraj152]

@@MindfulWingChun Cool stuff. I got introduced to some of these concepts several years ago when I stumbled upon Maxalding's old book on muscle control. I was so fascinated I stayed up late one night until I could do all this muscle control exercises (except a few of the weirder stomach vacuums). His life story was interesting. He concluded that learning to relax the muscles gave you more strength potential. Always fascinated me.

[@juancarlosgonzalez9722]

Notice some kettlebells in the background. Do you use them for some sort of conditioning?

[@MindfulWingChun]

This was a seminar at a school of one of my friends in Australia. So it's his kettle bells and yeah he uses them for strength and conditioning.

[@juancarlosgonzalez9722]

@@MindfulWingChun Gotcha, I see. Do you find that weight training is counterproductive to the looseness and relaxation sought as part of internal training?

[@MindfulWingChun]

@@juancarlosgonzalez9722 Not really man. I think it's good to strengthen the bones and connective tissues. but need to be smart about it and do it according to what the body needs and ensure to do some relaxation work immediately after it to ensure the memory of the muscles dont retain tightness

[@yaseenameen545]

Sifu, when throwing punches - I know the bottom 3 knuckles are thrown, but when should the first 2 knuckles be used, when it comes to hooks? Also, when should the fist be horizontal? I heard some people prefer hitting with diagonal tilted fists.

[@MindfulWingChun]

We should connect with bottom 3 knuckles when in a vertical fist but should connect with the top 2 knuckles when in a horizontal fist. This is simply due to the natural alignment of the wrist and knuckle bones with the forearm bones (and elbow joint) when in different position. I recommend to practice hitting the heavy bag with all different angles punches so you can figure out the natural alignment. Hook, uppercuts and straight punches (both vertical and horizontal fists). Many are under the incorrect impression that Wing Chun only used Vertical fist punches. this isn't true. Wing Chun has hooks, uppercuts in ChumKiu and Biu Jee and when the Bong Sau rotation is extended into a strike (which is how it would be used in applocation), then it becomes a straight horizontal fisted punch on the centerline. Wing Chun had every type of punch but the only difference is the power generation methodically compared to other arts.

[@darkhorse888]

@@MindfulWingChun First up you are getting even better at explaining this. congrats. I think it's important to tell students that at a basic level there is different punches etc but ultimately it doesn't really matter what you hit with and at what angle. as long as force is delivered with the right thought the right way. i.e you can deliver in theory the whole body mass through a finger in anger. I wouldn't recommend it but its possible. Perhaps showing how you can break someones structure and deliver a hit with your shoulder or even foot would be pretty cool. We don't see a lot of examples of disrupting someones balance/structure with different unorthodox movements. I know you can easily do this as I was doing it myself at one point. ....Could you please do a short video on the application of the wrist movements in the forms. we repeat them so often i am guessing they are pretty important. particularly worked a lot in the bil jee form.

[@MindfulWingChun]

@@darkhorse888 Actually funny you say that, cause I have already edited the videos for both Huen Sau demo and a striking video from unorthodox positions. Have around 25videos edited and ready to be posted in the coming weeks and months. The lockdown period was productive for me 😉

[@yaseenameen545]

@@MindfulWingChun thanks Bro, good explanation

[@maximuslaurie5139]

hooks are hard without a glove, easy with a glove. the alignment matters less if you hit something soft, usually the vertical fist is more reasonable.

[@alekx58]

Relaxion Leading move ore relaxion move Leading ......

[@MindfulWingChun]

intention is what leads both relaxation and movement :)

[@alekx58]

@@MindfulWingChun thank you

[@alekx58]

@@MindfulWingChun sorry one Said there he can t and there he Don t Finish He Finish For me what that Talk ist that flow follows talks

[@alekx58]

@@MindfulWingChun again one Said Intension ist evil and Must be send punisch IS that Hetze

[@DaveCurrieDesigns]

SCIENCE!

[@MindfulWingChun]

Glad it makes sense to you. Some others think its a trick or woo-woo but its basic science...

[@khawamalbot-1844]

Keep it Up! This was Insightful. Also, Let's build each other up :O

[@MindfulWingChun]

thanks for the support :)