Internal Art - a talk by Caroline Demoise, master trainer of the Tai Chi for Health programs

[YIQUANONE]

First off to be internal, you will have had to developed a lot of stored "chi", then you will need to develop you "yi" to lead the "chi", thats "internal", doing your sets over and over do not deveop any "chi", you are an empty vessel.

You can think of it as a hydrolic system, the "Chi" is the oil, without the oil the system has no potential movement. A golfer has no cultivated "Chi" to lead, neither does any other repetative athlete

[YIQUANONE]

I don't think you know what your talking about. Do you just make this stuff up because you practiced the form over and over and think it has done something to you?

Athletic memory is not what an "internal" art is. If that was true every martial art would be considered internal from practicing the same stuff over and over.

You don't have a clue what your talking about.

[greentaigi]

Some experts propose that the identification of the internal martial arts with the Taoism indigenous to China and of the “external martial” arts with the foreign Buddhism of Shaolin

In 1928, Pre communist National Party generals Li Jing Lin, Zhang Zi Jiang, and Fung Zu Ziang organized a national martial arts tournament in China The generals separated the participants of the tournament into the Buddhist Shaolin as“External art” participants and Taoist Wudang as “internal art” participants.