Just watched your Tai Chi Walk. That looks like the walking I used to do! It would have been really useful to see a profile view as well, rather than just the frontal. Some considerations?
1. Your right hand push rotates too far, compared to your left. Are you pushing centre to your centreline or are you pushing out over the knee, so the energy bubble that your hand is pushing is equally held between the two hands.
2. You lose your root every time you take a step forward. And every time you pick up your front toes/foot to turn, you lose what little root you had before you stepped.
3. Hmmm...that's partially because your appendages are not connecting to your centre dantien, nor the midline of the body. Right foot/left hand; right calf/left forearm; right thigh/left arm always move in sync. When the feet turn, the core turns which drive the appendages.
4. And of course, there's no lifting of the arms. The energy that results from rooting places the arm into the appropriate position, pushed there by the root energy. The deeper the root, the more expansive the bubble. That's how the fa-jing occurs. The root is compressed into its smallest diameter and then explodes as the body relaxes into the ground.
5. And that is what is most obvious about the form. It's external. What do I mean by external? Here's what you can experiment with. In the two handed push, you transfer your weight from the back foot to the front foot and the arms move horizontally from a point over the back foot to a point over the front foot.
As your weight transfers from forward foot to back foot, the arms are pulled in towards the chest (not too far, keep the space comfortable), then the weight drops as the body relaxes into the back foot...the body drives itself vertically down through the back foot...there is no horizontal displacement.
What happens is the energy bubble explodes forward. The body does not move forward. Your hands only point in the direction you want the bubble shape (narrow? pointed? oblong? low? high? circular?) to move toward.
you explained this really well i finally understand the concept the sweep and push helped me understand the tai chi walk
redlacer 6 months ago
sorry, our bad
normanallandr 6 months ago
audio quality is horrible
misterclownface 6 months ago
damn, i was freaking waiting all 5 mins and never saw you doing it fast. fuck you taichi!
apogeus1 1 year ago
damn, i was freaking waiting all 5 mins and never saw you doing it fast. fuck you taichi!
apogeus1 1 year ago
normanallen, so many critical remarks, where is YOUR video? We wait patiently.
fairman1952 2 years ago
Adrian wrote: Hi Norman,
Just watched your Tai Chi Walk. That looks like the walking I used to do! It would have been really useful to see a profile view as well, rather than just the frontal. Some considerations?
normanallan 3 years ago
1. Your right hand push rotates too far, compared to your left. Are you pushing centre to your centreline or are you pushing out over the knee, so the energy bubble that your hand is pushing is equally held between the two hands.
2. You lose your root every time you take a step forward. And every time you pick up your front toes/foot to turn, you lose what little root you had before you stepped.
normanallan 3 years ago
3. Hmmm...that's partially because your appendages are not connecting to your centre dantien, nor the midline of the body. Right foot/left hand; right calf/left forearm; right thigh/left arm always move in sync. When the feet turn, the core turns which drive the appendages.
normanallan 3 years ago
4. And of course, there's no lifting of the arms. The energy that results from rooting places the arm into the appropriate position, pushed there by the root energy. The deeper the root, the more expansive the bubble. That's how the fa-jing occurs. The root is compressed into its smallest diameter and then explodes as the body relaxes into the ground.
normanallan 3 years ago
5. And that is what is most obvious about the form. It's external. What do I mean by external? Here's what you can experiment with. In the two handed push, you transfer your weight from the back foot to the front foot and the arms move horizontally from a point over the back foot to a point over the front foot.
normanallan 3 years ago
Now this:
As your weight transfers from forward foot to back foot, the arms are pulled in towards the chest (not too far, keep the space comfortable), then the weight drops as the body relaxes into the back foot...the body drives itself vertically down through the back foot...there is no horizontal displacement.
normanallan 3 years ago
What happens is the energy bubble explodes forward. The body does not move forward. Your hands only point in the direction you want the bubble shape (narrow? pointed? oblong? low? high? circular?) to move toward.
normanallan 3 years ago
It's really about mind.
Interesting difference between the internal and the external.
You sure are proficient! Is core media productions your creation? I'm watching!
normanallan 3 years ago
core media is Bill, who has made all my videos
normanallan 3 years ago
Very interesting
tkpmd 3 years ago
Very nice step by step learning, quite and balanced!! IOCOB
StichtingIOCOB 3 years ago