Thank you for your videos; they show Aikido and the spirit of Aikido at its best. Aikido is an astonishing art. If more people did it the world would truly be a better place. It’s flowing, connecting, fun and effective for what it’s intended for. And the principles of Aikido apply for so many situations, including social interaction, strategy and much more. After practising Aikido for some years I also took up Taiji Chuan and Qigong and love those too. These movement forms compliment each other so well for development.
It is a martial art. You may like to search on the internet for 'Sawai Kenichi' (澤井 健一) and 'Taikiken' (大気拳) as it is known in Japan. It is a very Chinese Martial art. 👍
There is a certain level of strength that is developed... but instead of muscle strength.. its Super Tendon strength, and other tissue strengths like the Fascia. Your body becomes relaxed, and "SPRINGY", like a Bow. Able to absorb the OPs attacking forces.. temporarily storing them up like a compressed spring... and the violently and explosively releasing them back into the OP. One Thing not shows here.. which is critical to the best levels of development.. is the very Deep and frequent Breathing. This kind of high air volume breathing... causes your body to develop much greater levels of Oxygen content... and then eventually forms even greater Circulation channels within it. Its part of Iron Body development, and Qigong. When most people try to emulate Tai Chi... they far too often, are only using their Muscles to move... and thus, they are not getting much benefit from it. Of course, you need a certain amount of muscle strength... but to develop the internal strength... you need to learn to almost turn your muscles off. Basically, you want to feel like your entire body is "Heavy"... much like if you had just jumped into the water... and as you walked out... your wet clothing makes you feel much heavier. To do this, you need to relax to the point where you are BARELY holding up your own body mass... so that all most of the STRAIN / MASS... is being supported though your Tendons, and full body tissue mass. You shouldnt need to think about it... just Feel it. Then, keep breathing deeply as you can.. using your Full lungs.. including the Dantian (lower abdomen), not just shallow breaths from only the upper part of your lungs. The breaths will also help with concentration, as well as to reduce any physical pains that you may be feeling. The breaths will also help develop your core strength too... with certain tissues that cant be developed with exercises like Crunches. For most people... you only need to do 1 hour of the standing training method, or 1 hr of repeating the Tai Chi Form (nonstop). Do this every other day, for 1hr, as a minimal. It will probably take anywhere from 4 to 6 months, to develop yourself to a pretty good degree of internal strength, at that minimal level of practice. 2 to +4 hours, is for the most extreme of abilities.
@championboy4782 Жыл бұрын
Any tips for developing such qualities during Xingyi? I've heard of directional force feeling but I don't know how it manifests. Sometimes it's a force pulling back, sometimes it's heat spreading from the neck washing over the shoulders. Sometimes it's a force down straight. And most commonly, the arm and front leg feel like they float. How does one channel directional force?
@MustAfaalik Жыл бұрын
@johndough. Thank you!! Will keep this in mind.🙏
@johndough8115 Жыл бұрын
@@championboy4782 When most fighters strike, they often can not get even close to their FULL body mass into their impact potentials. Furthermore... when they impact, they are often impacting at a sub-optimal Vector. For example.. hitting the OPs chest at 20 degrees (from Centerline), rather than dead-on Zero degrees. This is what I meant by Directional Forces. A very simple example of this, it to get a long 2x4... and raise both ends.. using some bricks, cinderblocks.. or something similar. The widest side of the 2x4, should be facing up. Stand in the middle of it... Now, quickly, thrust all of you mass downwards. Shooting your arms downwards, dropping your hips.. and bending your knees until they are over your toes... all at once, in a Quick Burst (like a sneeze, or a muscle spasm contraction). At the tail end of your movement.. quickly tighten all of your body, to create a surge of Tension, and unification. You should be able to Feel your unified mass energy, coupled with gravity.. vectored downwards... causing the 2x4 to Flex... and possibly to even Vibrate, to a certain degree. Its easiest to direct your mass energy downwards like this, because you are going with Gravity, and a very Distinct Vector. You also get instant, and very clear, feedback from it.. due to the wood flexing. Remove the wood, and try again.. on a solid non-flexing surface. This will get you to connect to the floor (Grounding). Do this a bunch, to start to understand what this feels like, on its own. And then, you can try projecting your arms forwards. At first, shoot both palms forwards... but, at the same time.. dropping your mass downwards too. Since the floor isnt going to bounce... the energy that goes down... is merely going to eliminate any Flex in your body.. and then unify that Surge into your Arms palmstrikes. This is the harnessing of Ground Power, with your forwards vectored strikes. Then, you take a single Step forwards, with double palms. You need precise timing, and distances.. so that you are able to get your mass moving forwards.. and then timed to your palmstrikes, and then timed to the Tension Surge. Since its not easy to tell if your arms traveled perfectly straight... you can, for example.. hang a tennis or soccer? ball between 2 bungee cords. With a standard single punch... watch which direct the ball flies away from your punch. If it heads off at an angle.. then you will realize that your Vectored mass energy.. was OFF from where you intended it to Go. A simpler version, would be to fill a large coffee can with sand or rocks. Place it on a long table. Then perform a 6 inch or less punch to the can... seeing how far you can make the can slide. This helps both develop short range power.. but also, will show you your vectored energy... as the can might travel to the left or right, as it slides. (you could lay down marker lines on both sides of the can... to make it easier to see if the can remained centered.. or if it crossed a line) Of course, the best way to develop and feel impact forces (after trying some of the above), and develop conditioning + the highest levels or power output... is to get a Canvas Wall mounted sandbag.. and pack it tightly with coarse grain beach sand. Mount it to a Solid wall (something that will not Flex). Or it you dont have such a wall... temporarily, you could tie/hang a thick phonebook, to a large tree. Its not quite as good as the sandbag.. but it still should have enough flex to protect the knuckle shapes.
@championboy4782 Жыл бұрын
@@johndough8115 I will attempt what you have stated. It sounds very scientific and similar to what I've heard.
@johndough8115 Жыл бұрын
@@championboy4782 The common Misconception, is that the Chinese arts contain some sort of "Invisible Magic"... The truth is.. all of it is Physical, and Scientific. Its just not very Intuitive... AND, it can take many months of efforts, to start to see worthwhile progression. As such, most lack the Belief, and the Dedicated Daily +1hr a day worth of Work... to develop these kinds of things. Some of the Ancient Chinese might describe certain things with Metaphysical / Mystical terminology... but thats because of a combination of Short-Form descriptions, mistranslations, and even that they didnt always 100% know all of the details about how some of these things worked. The Chinese were also known for holding back key Secrets.. unless you were under them for a long time, and were proven to be a good, moral, person. Someone whom would never use the technology, to harm others with... (including the teacher, himself). You also needed to have developed the arts foundations, before learning the more advanced methods... otherwise, nothing was going to work properly. Maybe a Decade ago... I cranked my neck badly. So painful, that I was in tears the entire day.. and couldnt turn my neck more than like 25 degrees. It was the weekend.. so I couldnt get a Chiropractor.. so my only option was to try a session at an Acupuncture clinic... If you have ever listened to Chinese speak about Acupuncture... you will hear a lot of Mystical things about Energy, Meridians..etc. But the thing is... the entire act is Physical (Needles), and has Physical causes and effects... They placed about 100 needles all over me, as I relaxed in a comfy recliner. About 30 minutes in... and I started to feel pressure building up in my abdomen. Sorta like someone heavy, stepping on my Abs. I asked the lady about this, and she said that its normal, and not to worry about it. The pressure kept growing stronger and stronger, over the course of about 10 more minutes... and then "POP". I sort of heard and felt a "Popping", within me. It was then, that I was fully able to move my neck in any direction... and about 85% of the pains, were instantly Gone. I was completely blown away... as honestly, at that time... I was very skeptical about it. My Theory about how it works, is that the Needles create Hydraulic Micro-Pressure build ups, within the bloodflow / circulation. Furthermore, I believe it creates a sort of distress signal to the brain (where the needles create an electric disturbance within the bodies nervous system)... which then creates a rapid physical response (emergency repair). Even Chiropractors mention, that the body is very sensitive to things like temperature changes... which is why they tell you to apply heat, or cold... to the troubled area. This alerts the body, to rapidly try to fix the area, in which it detects the temp differences. So, basically put... there is no Invisible Magic Chi... that can be used in some sort of no-touch knockout (unless someone is allowing themselves to be Hypnotized). Everything in these arts... develops within your physical mind (brain connections), and physical body. Its just that some of these feats... seem so unrealistic.. that they often appear to be like "Magic".
@ヨシダヒナ Жыл бұрын
とにかく金髪の白川先生がカッコイイ😍
@kodokudeusotsuki Жыл бұрын
For those who want to look up more, Iken is "Yi Quan" in mandarin and Tantoukou is "Zhan Zhuang".
@happylobsterpatatas Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@gatocles99 Жыл бұрын
It is Taikiken. Or Dachengchuan. Kenichi Sawai brought it to Japan from China. That new guy in the video is trying to change the name and make up his own stuff.
@AndyYWLee Жыл бұрын
@@gatocles99If you look it up, Yiquan/iken 意拳 was founded by Wang Xian Zhai and was the original name of this martial art, hes not trying to change anything.
@gatocles99 Жыл бұрын
@@AndyYWLee If you look it up. Wang Xiangzhai caled his art DachengChuan (Great Achievement Fist) and his Japanese student who brought the art to Japan, called it Taikiken, the Japanese cognate of Dachengchuan. The fake "grandmaster" in the video is making up things that neither Wang nor Sawai taught. There are a lot of fakes in the martial arts world teaching fake stuff, and bringing shame to the martial arts. Which is why dojo yaburi needs to become a thing again. The only people who call it "Iken" are the Kyokushin organization, who were/are trying to create a monopoly. (The big martial arts organizations are all about politics and monopolies.) But they do not understand the essence, so they teach outer forms that they made up. Dachengchuan/Taikiken has no outward forms. It is 100% internal. If you want to learn the real thing, get a copy of Kenichi Sawai's book "Taikiken" and read the writings of Wang Xiangzhai that are available for free online. It will take searching, work and study. And practice by yourself, the art was designed by Wang for self study. Most people are too lazy to do that. Taikiken dot org is run by a student of Kenichi Sawai... and has everything on the art, for free. So your achievement depends only on whether you choose to be independent and hardworking, or lazy. I know that art very well. I know how to identify the frauds. Study it, and you will too.
@AndrewUKLondon Жыл бұрын
I’ve found Zhan Zhaung (“stand like a post” or more commonly “stand like a tree”) a wonderful practice. It certainly helps stop the mind wandering all over the place as the body brings it back. And it helps increase body awareness and the impact of micro adjustments. I was surprised how much it helped my aikido (and other things). There’s a good set of introductory videos, about 11 mins each, if you search for “stand still be fit”(by Master Lam, a super star in the standing still world!). The 10 videos cover the 5 main standing forms (there are others). Some of the warm up and cool down exercises in these videos are from moving qigong forms (8 brocades for example). A suggested approach is to do 90% moving forms and 10% standing forms when starting qigong, moving towards 90% standing and 10% moving over time. Long periods of standing in the early stages can be counterproductive as body doesn’t have time to adjust optimally
Now where have I heard this before...hmmm.oh yeah aikido (insert decade here) 's style.
@KyokushinkanVinayakShetty Жыл бұрын
You should contact royama hatsuo kaicho of kyokushinkan.. our dojo is in saitama.. kaicho is a master of ikken and knows how to apply it very well in daily life and full contact karate alike.
Shirakawa sensei you should try Bagua Zhang. The art is based on the same principles as aikido
@jestfullgremblim8002 Жыл бұрын
I mean, most internal martial arts, if not all of them, share many principles with Aikido and even techniques!
@terciary Жыл бұрын
@@jestfullgremblim8002 dont think so. Xing Yi is strictly linear, not circular. Taiji lacks circular steps and orenai te, to name a few ))
@jestfullgremblim8002 Жыл бұрын
@@terciary like i said, they share many principles, not all of them! And Xing Yi isn't strictly linear, that's misinformation. Some of it's animal forms/techniques are about getting *around* an attack or what to do after you already got around an attack While Taichi 100% does have circular steps as well!! In fact, most of it's throws (which are usually not used in push hands so maybe you don't know about them) require you to move in a circular way, just like in Judo! You cannot do a Sasae Tsurikomi Ashi in Judo without moving in a circular way, and such a move is part of Taichi's throws, same with what the Judoka call De Ashi Harai, you need to move around! Inform yourself, the internal martial arts are very similar because they were developed under very similar beliefs, mindsets and contexts!
@terciary Жыл бұрын
There are a backbone principles for each art and the are sidekick principles, imported from other arts. Like in some modern styles of Bagua U can see linear!!! forms. In early days clean Bagua and Xsing Yi were learned together exactly because they were based on so different, non interconnected principles and together gave student a beautiful synergy. And it is (clean original) Bagua that is the most akin to Aikido of all Chinese martial art (Some interesting similarities to Aikido also could be seen in a very advanced Shuai Jiao).
@Ayano-Takuya Жыл бұрын
武術マニア白川先生が、西山先生と組んだら世界取れそう😂
@森の民レクサ Жыл бұрын
このポーズは、酒瓶を抱いて身を守る酒仙 権鍾離だな
@beansnrice321 Жыл бұрын
I often like to say that anyone who has had to walk through water already knows how to move with power. The pressure of water resists your movement and forces you to summon and concentrate your strength to move very deliberately. So when I attempt to move with power, I always just imagine that I'm walking through water and move accordingly.
Soy guionista cinematográfico y hare un documental real, convocando a estos "maestros" a desafíos reales contra espadas, cuchillos y pistolas, en donde formaran un convenio aceptando las condiciones. Si fallan mueren, si no fallan en sus técnicas serán famosos.
@asdf8asdf8asdf8asdf Жыл бұрын
エリス・アムドゥルの「Hidden in Plain Sight」をご覧ください。 ガラス玉のテクニックは、私が受けた短い気功のトレーニングを非常に思い出させます。 白川先生、これからもよろしくお願いします! Please see Ellis Amdur's "Hidden in Plain Sight" The glass ball technique reminds me very much of some brief Qigong training I had. Ongoing thanks to Shirakawa sensei!
Same Chinese Characters(Kanji in Japanese, Hanja in Korean, Huawen in Mandarin Chinese), different pronounce. Yi Chuan = I Ken
@風水-x2r Жыл бұрын
これが意拳か! 難しそう。
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@BeyondSpace8 Жыл бұрын
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@forkman20004 ай бұрын
ただただ不動で立つって疲れるんだよなぁ。
@NguyenTuan-br6ww Жыл бұрын
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@افلاماكشنالعربجي-ج2ف Жыл бұрын
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