jobo
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seems you dont hace a watch or even a calendar it was febuary when i replied to your post and now its October
its bit late to come back with a witty retort
Is there a relationship between Kung Fu and Yoga?
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its bit late to come back with a witty retort
KenpoDave
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LOL.
Me too. LOL (posting in April, '21).
...Sad thing is it took another five months for us to respond by laughing. Slow reflexes I guess. Like the time I took a punch, staggered back, then took a long look at my training partner and said, "...ow."
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The connection between Yoga and Kung Fu is pretty obvious.
In general, there are some internal similarities between Yoga and internal martial arts, in particular, the bone breathing techniques, increase the body awareness, system of energetic body centers (chakras and Dan Tians), and rising the energy along/inside the spinal cord through energetic centers. Also, spiritual development is a common goal in Yoga and high level internal martial arts.
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Breath is life. It's even more important than water.
Xue Sheng
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Agree with all except the spiritual development bit.
Never an original intent of CIMA. It comes from a mistranslation/interpretation. Much like Kung Fu is not what the Chinese called martial arts. They called it Wushu, but it took Kung Fu (hard work) to be good at martial arts. Spirit mean mind to the Chinese and had little or nothing to do with Spiritual. That came later when the west got a hold of it and decided it meant spiritual
Hi Xue Sheng,
Do you continue Xing Yi practice? I hope your knee is better. I am a big fan of Sun style and, as I remember, Sun Lu Tang in his writings several times mentioned that there are some similarities between high levels of Xing Yi Quan and Daoism.
Writing that could be interesting for you
sifuondemand.com
Do you continue Xing Yi practice? I hope your knee is better. I am a big fan of Sun style and, as I remember, Sun Lu Tang in his writings several times mentioned that there are some similarities between high levels of Xing Yi Quan and Daoism.
Writing that could be interesting for you
Sun Lu-Tang: My Personal Experience (translated by Scott Meredith) | UCB Program
Original ArticleSun Lu-tang: My Personal Experiencetranslated by Scott MeredithEver since I began training boxing in childhood, my teachers always told me âBoxing embodies the Taoâ. I was skeptical about it. But when I learned âconcealed energyâ, and the unification of hard and soft, my...
sifuondemand.com
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Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Hi Xue Sheng,
Do you continue Xing Yi practice? I hope your knee is better. I am a big fan of Sun style and, as I remember, Sun Lu Tang in his writings several times mentioned that there are some similarities between high levels of Xing Yi Quan and Daoism.
Writing that could be interesting for you
Sun Lu-Tang: My Personal Experience (translated by Scott Meredith) | UCB Program
Original ArticleSun Lu-tang: My Personal Experiencetranslated by Scott MeredithEver since I began training boxing in childhood, my teachers always told me âBoxing embodies the Taoâ. I was skeptical about it. But when I learned âconcealed energyâ, and the unification of hard and soft, my...
Knee still has me out of commission, not sure Xingyiquan wi ever return. Thanks, I have read a lot from Sun Lutang, I will look at this, thanks. You may also be interested in things from Wang Xiangzhai
