EXCELLENT! Simple, clear, calm, clean of crap. The dog loves the good vibe. You are a kind of Bob Ross of Taiji.

@InternalTaiChi

5 күн бұрын

☺️😄 thank you for the positive and specific feedback! You made me laugh re: Bob Ross. I often tell my students as I'm teaching their Tai Chi, that I am teaching "paint by the numbers" first. Then we later turn our Tai Chi into water colors, flowing, blending, subtle, no definitive beginning or end (and no lines or numbers). 😄

@dorneanudoru

5 күн бұрын

@@InternalTaiChi ♥♥♥very nice analogy! This is also an art of making people discover and enjoy the colors in their lives. Keep blooming people's lives!

@InternalTaiChi

4 күн бұрын

@@dorneanudoru Aww. Thank you so much. I did a meditation yesterday and I kept seeing a flower opening under the sunlight. Your "blooming people's lives" is very fitting. Thank you for the beautiful imagery.

I appreciate the sincerity and generosity of sharing your knowledge. Thank you!

@InternalTaiChi

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your lovely comment!

The ai chi instruction is very good. One of the smartest decisions of my life was to take up tai chi and continueing to practice it The only dog I ever owned was a standard and she was a natural in front of a camera. Nice seeing you both.

@InternalTaiChi

12 күн бұрын

Thank you! Tai Chi and Poodles are a hard combination to beat!

👍 Thankyou for explaining things so clearly!

@InternalTaiChi

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for the positive feedback and for leaving a comment!

Thank you for sharing! I like the clean yet balanced stile of the videos, giving examples, little anacdotes but underlying the specifics without going of to far, keeps me focused :) Coming from Wing Chun with a recent awoken interest in postural restauration, I see great benefit in Tai Chi to not only fix posture and better my martial arts, but also to reduce stress and pain by practicing a present/mindful state. This is the second video I watched of yours, after the joint expansion one with the follow along for hand joints, where I ended up via Wing Chun related content. Looking forward to learn from your content and return for practice. Kind regards

@InternalTaiChi

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! You are indeed correct. Tai Chi will provide you with all that you seek. I appreciate your taking the time to leave a comment and your positive feedback. It helps to build my channel followers so that more folks can also learn from my teaching. Thanks for watching and learning from me!

Thanks a lot. It really helps me.

@InternalTaiChi

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I am glad it helped.

This is an excellent explanation/ demonstration of common errors thanks!

@InternalTaiChi

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, Cynthia! 😊

Very nice explanation, thanx!

@InternalTaiChi

2 ай бұрын

You are welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting.

This is so helpful. Thank you so much!

@InternalTaiChi

11 ай бұрын

Thank you Brenda! Thanks for commenting. 👍

Wow! Some lightbulb moments here for me! Thanks!

@InternalTaiChi

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for telling me. Light bulb moments are my favorite as a teacher!!

Thank you! I never heard so clear, 👍 explanation 😄

@InternalTaiChi

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Enjoy your OneWheel.

Really helpful, and really clear teaching, Thank you :)

@InternalTaiChi

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Once again Susan thank you for excellent sound advice. I hope beginners, students and experienced Tai chi prationers take something away from your video. I'll give a big 👍 for you your assistant and Monty. Have a good day all. 🙏😊🐶🥰

@InternalTaiChi

11 ай бұрын

LOL...Monty does like to assist in the most enthusiastic ways! Thank you, Julie. I appreciate your comments so very much.

Excellent presentation, thank you. Bill P.

@InternalTaiChi

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@RocknRollkat

11 ай бұрын

@@InternalTaiChi My pleasure !

Wow this was really great thank you. Even though I can already stand like in the video and not be pushed by a much larger person.I never really understood intellectually understood some of the concepts you presented here and was doing them from comfort and feel and not knowledge thanks to your video I now have both.I never thought of keeping by qua back ,what I do is keep my lower back flat and bending at the knees helps with this. Anyway great video I appreciate.

@InternalTaiChi

7 ай бұрын

It is much better to understand it from how it feels, like you do, than from an intellectual or cognitive standpoint. You are way ahead of the game if you are sensing it from comfort and feel. That is excellent! Thank you for watching and for your positive comments.

I’m just starting Tai Chi and find your videos quite informative and helpful.

@InternalTaiChi

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, Sherry! Enjoy learning Tai Chi. Thank you for watching and your comment. Feel free to ask questions along the way.

Very helpful

@InternalTaiChi

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Good teaching ,..

@InternalTaiChi

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Thank you for your teaching today. Are the corrections you made today adaptable to all styles of Tai Chi? I’m currently mostly a Yang style practitioner.

@InternalTaiChi

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely! These are key principles that should be applied to all styles of Tai Chi. You can test them out. Pick one form (like ward off or brush knee) and hold the position. Allow a partner to gently, gradually push on you. Do it with the principles in the video (for example arms below shoulder height) and without the principle (arms held higher) and see if you can feel the difference when they push you. This will validate it for you. These principles apply to ALL styles of forms! Thanks for watching and for the comment/question.

Absoutely helpfull thank you verry much :) Only a verry little agree to disagree: I would refer to me as an intermediate but would not say that all the issues with the Kwa (especially No4) are easy to fix in a way like: ok got it now do it right. Understand it is one thing, but feel it annother cup of coffee and I think that's a longer jouney between - damn my Kwa is stiff like a brick - Satori: Halleluja that's it - falling back one step take to forward and so one. And generally spoken: not matter if you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced - I think that's one core of Tai Chi: there are those days you hate your form during practice thinking about better collecting stamps, the other day it's fine - but all in all you know you can't give up cause you love it to much.

@InternalTaiChi

11 ай бұрын

LOL...I am in total agreement with you. It is always one step forward, and half back, so forth. The learning is a journey and not a straight, always forward progressing one. I do think the more we let go of our results for that day of practice, the better things get for us. Oh yes, and some days, my Kua is a brick too! 😄 And some days I feel so in the zone I don't want to stop. But always it is there for us to love, learn and grow. Thanks for watching and for your insightful, humous, and true comment!

Your explanation about Locked joints, rotation in response to a Push is spot on. May I add, if you see someone pushing you, why not Avoid his Push? Why not avoid his Push direction by "rotating" moving to the side ? Why allow your self to stand in front of him? Why not keep Maai? Most Aikido, Muay Thai, Boxers Avoid Tori's line of attack. In Real-Life, will you just stand in front of the attacker and do Brushing Knee?

@InternalTaiChi

8 ай бұрын

Indeed, Tai Chi is also about "yielding" and avoiding the confrontation in the first place. Your comments, in my opinion, are correct. I only used the direct confrontation for demonstration purposes. Sometimes, unfortunately we do have direct confrontations and it is good to have a repertoire to manage them. But best of all, is if we can rotate out of the way and have, as one of my instructors says, "no contention." Thank you for commenting and for watching!

@hamstring6792

6 ай бұрын

Postural deficiencies can only be exposed through pressure testing, which is what this video demonstrates.

@InternalTaiChi

6 ай бұрын

​@@hamstring6792thank you. Great insight!

Thank you. I think that I tend to twist because of arthritis in my hips, and am not sure how to counteract this tendency

@InternalTaiChi

11 ай бұрын

At first just get in front of a mirror and watch as you rotate. Imagine you have a button sewn at the shoulder Kua (a divet under the collar bone at your shoulder) and the hip kua. There should be a direct, vertical line between these two landmarks. Now pretend you have a silk thread attached to both buttons, creating a vertical line from shoulder to hip kua. Now you must keep that silk thread vertical at all times when you move and rotate. If it loses its vertical line, then you are twisting. I hope this helps!

@christinemclafferty3146

11 ай бұрын

It does, thank you

yes... and no. The biggest mistake of every taichi teacher is to deviate the focus on the back and spine. When your back is extended and your spine is flexible and aligned, everything about joints and breathing cones as a consequence. The focus is on the spine, and then you practice years until your whole being extends and softens enough. It's all about the spine and the back, It has always been , since the beginning and in every martial art.

@InternalTaiChi

6 ай бұрын

I agree about the spine and back being essential. In fact I have videos which address that. Keep in mind this video can't possibly address all levels. It's choosing common mistakes....not all mistakes. If you have a video you have made that addresses your point I will gladly point my viewers to it. Thanks for watching and your insight.