Self Teaching DVDThe DVD treat the diverse aspects of Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gong, the diffrent levels, abordant l'apprentissage simple d'enchaînements, les applications martiales comme certains principes plus avancés.
Tai Chi Chuan Techniques
Tai Chi Chuan originates from China where it is practised in a traditional manner. Tai chi chuan responds perfectly to the Occidental need for balance and relaxation. It looks like slow gymnastics where each gesture and each attitude has its importance. When practised in a group, it is remniscent of the ondulating movements of seaweed rocked by the waves.
The relaxation progressively reaches the muscular blocages; these are translations of psychological tensions due to life’s ordeals and are recorded by the body. We learn to “let ourselves breathe”. Gradually, a deep and natural low breathing settles in. We become aware of the internal energy flow, the Qi (or chi) and we learn to direct it and use it. Throughout this evolution, little by little, the student – even a beginner – develops a sense of his/her unity, the awareness of being rather than “doing” or “having”. The kind of flexibility we are seeking for here has nothing to do with joint openness. While practising very precise movements, the attention is on the globality of the body in “continuous merging” movements, thus leading to another form of physical and mental flexibility. The fluidity is initially physical and facilitates the free energy flow. Then follows a psychological relaxation and a calm and dynamic inner state.
Forms and exercices of Tai Chi Chuan with bare hands
Form in 108 Movements
(Tai Chi Chuan with bare hands)
issue of the Yang Cheng Fu school
(next in simple fouet pose in 1915)
Video: Form in 108 movements
8 ways to execute the form
Video 2: Form in 108 Movements
Applications of the Form in 108 Movements, modern Yang style.
Tui Shou
(Tai Chi Chuan with bare hands)
Pushing hands: Two partners face to face try to unbalance each other by pushing or pulling the other or holding him in a lock. You can use the hands, arms, wrists, forearms, elbows, shoulders and even the torso for advanced students. Push the oponent on the chest, the arms and hips. In some cases, it's possible to use the legs or the hips. "Initial stipulation": The two players have to keep in contact. Second principle, that makes it different to wrestling or sumo, by listening to the other one's action so as not resist it or use physical strength, you should follow it, be with it, deviate it, use the other one's energy to send it back in your turn.
The game continues until one of the players loses his balance, is projected, puts a hand to the ground...
The general intention is always to learn. In Tui Shou, you learn from losing and dropping any conditioning, reflexes, education, habits, complacency.
"to invest in the loss" is a difficult creed, it's infuriating, but that's exactly the aim of learning pushing hands.
There are mainly two types:
- static stance where the aim is to make the other player lift one foot (at least)
- mobile stance where both players can move whilst keeping in contact, but only in a predetermined area outside of which a player is out of the game.
Tui shou is an enriching exercise for contact, "confrontation" however soft it is with the other, the sense of conviviality and the management of actions within the small circle (in great proximity, with contact). It helps to develop several principles with an internal martial approach.:
listen/feel, stay centered ("at home"), stay rooted/grounded, general structure, flexibility, give way (not avoid or give up), use softness, know how to lose, play, stick, follow, adhere to (comes after to stick+follow, engages the heart, the intention of the movement), be aware whilst being relaxed, non-acting (when already at a high level of practice), being able to emit an explosive thrust whilst staying grounded...
Tui Shou isn't directly linked to combat, but the qualities developed will prove very useful for Chi Sao and close combat.
Da Lu
(Tai Chi Chuan with bare hands)
Resembles Tui Shou with mobile steps, the partners carry out techniques each in turn, like pulling [lu], shoulder strike, pushing [ji]... The moves and attacks/ parries are codified and the whole sequence takes place in a square on the floor (a bit like the form sequence “fair lady works shuttle”). => listening, following, mobility, centering...
With practice, the two partners will be able to slip in unexpected techniques, and find their marks while carrying on with their da lu.
Video: Da Lu
by Thierry Alibert & S Ciupa, Gourdon 2004
Little explosive form Yang Shaohou
(Tai Chi Chuan with bare hands)
Yang Shaohou's short form: a short sequence that is repeated back and forth, the technique being performed symmetrically.
keep focused, relaxed and centred, while accelerating progressively the rhythm, slap steps and fa jing.
Practised without excess or routine, this is a very stimulating exercise.
Video: Yang Shaohou
Little explosive form
Little San Shou
(Tai Chi Chuan with bare hands)
The small San Shou: a small sequence of feints/parries and counter-attacks performed by a person “not being able to step back”.
pivoting feint, “cartwheel” of the hips, slap steps, fa jing...
This is the defender’s sequence, the attacks being much more brief.
Video: Little San Shou
by Thierry Alibert & students| LANZAC 2005
Pao Chui
(Tai Chi Chuan with bare hands)
Pao Chui and Large San Shou: Two forms that generate a “combat form” when performed by two partners.
Great San Shou Yang Style| Memo with the names of the techniques & orientations
Great San Shou
(Tai Chi Chuan with bare hands)
Video: Great San Shou
by E. Ferolles, O. Rudzki, C. Schollaert & J.L. Chastanet | GOURDON 2007
12 Circles
(Tai Chi Chuan with bare hands)
brief explosive sequences of parries/feints and counter-attacks, each exercise focusing on one of the twelve acupuncture meridians. Various interpretations are possible depending on whether one chooses strikes or luxation (Qin Na).
Video: One of the 12 Circles
by Thierry Alibert and students | 2004
Ancient Yang Style
(Tai Chi Chuan with bare hands)
Old Yang style form assigned to Yang LuChan: Dating back to the XIXth century, it’s the origin of all the Yang styles. Its progression is at times calm, at times explosive.
Video: Form of Ancient Yang Style
Spontanious demonstration by Thierry Alibert | Digeridoo: Gaël Macho | 2004
Dao Yin Tai Chi
(Tai Chi Chuan with bare hands)
Yin/Yang aspects
Five elements and the five corresponding animals
Magnetic field
Video: Game of the 5 animals
by Thierry Alibert & students | JASNIÈRES MEETING 2004
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