Ba Duan Jin Complete Demonstration 1

[JHBloom]

Very Nice . I enjoyed watching demo. I have some of the same movements in my Dragon's Breath of Fire Qigong.

[martinr02]

Thank you for posting this video ! Very nice move and so efficient. Martin from Montreal

[kungfufreddy]

i wish taiji qigong etc and TCMA in general was more skills and less about matching silk uniforms and traditional backdrops

[honiro1]

Please be aware this is the 1st part of the 8 Treasures of Silk Brocade or Ba Duan Jin. You have to continue with the 2nd part Ba Duan Jin Complete Demonstration 2, also available here on the right hand side. Enjoy !!!!

[Norbertpasslack]

Einmalig! Von der Ausführung, der Umgebung, der Musik, dem Zusammenschnitt ... perfekter gehts kaum. Motiviert dazu mitzuüben. Vielen Dank

[merce0909]

very relaxing!!

[TheFilinable]

I like this video very much. It is highly useful to practice at home. Thanks for hang it on you tube.

[Stagefire420]

Good job on the editing!!

[tajicentre]

YES! Air in and out via nose (unless obstructed). Yes. Belly expands from diaphragm pressure on inhalation, as air drawn in to the lower lungs. (Imagine the belly is a balloon being slowly inflated.) Hold the breath momentarily -let it become very very fine-on the fullest extension of the exercise then release the pressure ,so, as the air leaves the lower lungs, so too does the belly release and relax. Let all settle fully before beginning the next repetition. Do not hurry this process.

[falthy3]

@tajicentre that's not the correct way to breath during qi gong excercises

[xKrolL64]

to do a proper session of qigong, i have to breath-in with the nose and breath-out with nose or do u breath-out with the mouth?(i know i have to breath with the solar plexus)

[daistarry]

@xKrolL64 I think (not sure) that you have to breathe out with the nose. And breathe with your belly in order to move up and down your diaphragm, making it possible to have your lungs full. (sorry for my bad english)

[Ognj3n]

@xKrolL64 Proper way is breathing only with your nose

[lezoire]

I for one would like to hear this done to Jackson 5s " can you feel it" lol.

[GojuBob]

@crossbhoy1888 There's absolutely no need to apologise. We're only disagreeing about a name, anyway.

[dankbars]

A beautiful piece of film. Thank you for uploading :)

Would love to track down the music… Can you help?

TIA

Karl

[GojuBob]

There’s no need to postulate some mysterious natural force over and above the ones that conventional physics recognises. All I am saying to you us that you are trying to explain a perfectly natural – and genuine - phenomenon in terms of an outmoded science.

[GojuBob]

It’s not a matter of pride and ego or of not working hard enough. It’s a matter of looking for sensible – economical – explanations. I’m not for a moment denying the reality of the benefits that qigong exercises bring, or of the feelings you describe. What I deny is the validity of explaining them in terms of qi. I have myself genuinely felt those benefits over the years; but they are all are explicable in “ordinary” physiological and biomechanical terms.

[GojuBob]

What your students get, I suggest, are the feelings associated with having their bodies thoroughly warmed and stretched and their blood oxygenated. I get those fine and beneficial feelings myself, and I’d be the first to say that ba duan jin is an excellent exercise. But lot of people get an ego trip (and make money) by persuading people that “qi” is more than this: that they can harness some mysterious invisible life-force of the universe; and that, with respect, a crock.

[effilang]

@GojuBob If you have been practicing for forty five years, then surely you are a man of disciplined perserverance. I too have studied hard martial arts for long, but not as long as you.

You have every right to be suspicious and questioning of Chinese martial and medical philosophy. Every student who decides to understand and experience Qi is in the beginning. My observation is that you have spoken to much over the years and done little and incorrectly so, in order to observe and experience Qi.

[effilang]

@GojuBob I know exactly why you are a sceptical. I was too before i activated my lower Dan Tien for the first time. Bob, you're caught in a cycle which will never yield you any answers or results when it comes to understanding the subtle body. There are 10s of 1000s of texts describing Qi and the energetic and spiritual system and i will tell you straight up that no matter how many of them you read, it will all mean didly squat until you have laid the basic foundation.

[effilang]

@GojuBob I say this out of experience, because i come from a western background, and even though i had read 100s of the ancient texts on Taoist energetic and spiritual work, i still didn't believe it, because i had not yet experienced it. The brain needs personal experience through at least one of the senses to truly believe something. I am sure you can agree with that.

[effilang]

@GojuBob Having said that. The basic foundation so you WILL feel Jing/Qi in your lower Dan Tien only takes several months. Why waste your oxygen typing here and arguing with people, when you can simply put it to the test yourself? This is why it remains clouded in mysticism, because at the end of the day you still have to do the "work, and lets face it humans don't really enjoy physical labor, much less mental of which laying the foundation consists of mostly.

[effilang]

@GojuBob Forget people who write crap, in fact forget every thing you know. All i can say is the benefits of doing the work will outweigh anything you have done in all your ears of martial arts training, but you need to give it 2-3 months of constant daily work. It's really as simple as that and then you'll be convinced that all this "qi" stuff is real. It's not a matter of pride. It is your potential and your right to access it.

[effilang]

@GojuBob You must be a mature man now to have practice the arts for so long, thus with a lot of hard programming and mental patterns. I sincerely hope before the end of your life you find the virtue to put aside your pride and ego and try 100 days of Nei Dan / Nei Kung stillness meditation to activate your Lower Dan Tien so you too can experience what i, just like yourself believed to be an utter lie.

[effilang]

@GojuBob If you do the work diligently and have followed the right instructions, during the first month the sensations will be subtle, but perceptible and between the second and third month you will feel like you have an earthquake in your bladder region. The sensations will be unmistakable. The best instructions you will get should you ever decide to embark on this experiment you will find from other practitioners at taobumsDotCom. I wish you good luck and the best of health my fellow earthling

[GojuBob]

I’m not a lippy kid, I’m not a mindless sceptic, and I don’t need a “wise teacher” to show me the true way, thanks. I’ve been practising martial arts for forty-five years, and I’ve seen exponents of “qi” discredited over and over again. I don’t mean to be rude to you, but I’ll say it in plain terms, and I’ll say it loud and clear: there is no “qi”, there are no meridians - period. It’s an ancient superstition that we don’t need any more.

[eelpieandmash]

why the constant change from one location to another?

its unnecessary & distracts from the continuity of the movements....not clever!

[eljazmindenotre]

Muy bueno

[honiro1]

Up to this date, and by far, this is the best video in all possible senses on the Ba Duan Jin, along with the 2nd part performed by the same trio (Youtube Ba duan Jin Complete Demonstration 2). The Qi Gong neophytes keep in mind this is an eight stances coreography.

[MorganeMelisande]

very good video.

thanks for upload:)

[octapulse]

One thing that is driving me crazy is that every example of this exercise that I check out is different from the next. Im trying to find the General Yue Fei style but even all of those on here are all different from each other. How do I know which is the original genuine form?

[ruud1977]

@octapulse

they all claim to have the original. They're all different but the same. What's important is not the form but the intention behind it. I suggest choosing the one that appeals to you. That way you start learning something that you, at least, like.

Enjoy your search.

[ratworks89]

@octapulse

One thing that I have learned is that each movement of qigong effects the body in a very specific way. Learning about the meridians, energy channels, may help you figure out which movements effect which part of the body the most. In China you can go to a "doctor" who asseses your energy and will give you specific qigong movements as a prescription. As you do more energy exercises you will begin to feel the energy more and if you pay attention you may be able to feel specific effect.

[billysue2]

@ratworks89 youve learned a pack of rubbish then,there are no meridians or energy channels and the chinese med doctors are bullshit artists.

[dejstil1974]

@billysue2

lol, someone is upset... do the movements, you know you like this... you want to be part of this.. do them...

[GojuBob]

@billysue2 I'm inclined to agree with you that "there are no meridians or energy channels" (though why do you need to be rude about it?): but - don't you think that stretching and breathing exercises are valuable? I don't buy the "qi" hokum either, but I've done ba duan jin for years and derived great benefit from it.

[billysue2]

@GojuBob if someone is charging money for a bunch of crap id consider rudeness an acceptable response

[lindachely40]

hola !! los felicito de todo corazón. me facina como practican el ki gong !

[sifucarr]

Thank you - this is one good example of proper Chi Gung - well focused, no rush, body alignment attention -

[02sweden]

This is a lovely vid. Ba Duan Jin is really lovely to do.

[rosewana47]

quelle classe ; élégance, souplesse, détente, tout y est !

[azkeyz]

Mom when I grow up and leave the basement can I be a shaloin monk and get paid to look chinese without greek olympic overtones ?

[cacciato66]

@azkeyz no where do you think the greek got their overtones ... China the 5000 yr old culture

[GordonTMuir]

internally taiji and qi gong are the same. externally different

[ihugtheworld]

ofcourse qi kong and taichi are completely different practises

[bknives]

wonderful. looks so much more enjoyable than the tai chi chuan forms

[ruby95630]

complete is unfortunately only the changing landscape.... n.1,2,3 ba duan jin.