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Articles: A. Yiquan - history, theory and methods |
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Attack
If you want to win, you must be active, you must attack.
Eyes training
Eyes play important role in fighting. They enable judgment of distance between you and opponent. Only when you have accurate judgment of distance, position and time, you will be able to land your attack on target. So eyes judgment ability is strongly related to possibility of hitting opponent hard and knocking him down.
I learned from Yao Zongxun
Yao Zongxun not only had great skill in martial art, but he also had great knowledge of health aspect of yiquan.
I'm a beginner
According to master Yao you must think a lot, when you are learning a martial art. You shouldn't just blindly repeat the exercises.
Interview with Zhao Daoxin
Traditional Chinese martial arts are old men arts. Old is seen as equal to saint, authority, deep knowledge. But for old man it's hard to raise leg for kick, and each falling down can be dangerous. So this hidden weakness of old master, in teaching process becomes taboo of „not loosing balance”.
Introduction to yiquan
In the basic training stress is put on improving perception of body, movement, strength, energy. This is seen as a basis of the ability of efficient use of body.
New chapter of martial science
Wang Xiangzhai's teachings recorded by Qi Zhidu in 1939
On principles of studying yiquan
According to master Yao Chengguang, yiquan is a branch of science. We should keep scientific attitude while studying, verifying old concepts and developing new ones. We should learn yiquan and keep developing it, seeing yiquan as a whole, not concentrating only on some part o it.
Our grandfather Wang Xiangzhai
Wang Xiangzhai commited his life to the martial art, making great contribution to research and development of chinese wushu, and getting paramount results.
Short history of yiquan
Yiquan's founder Wang Xiangzhai (1885-1963) was one of the greatest masters of Chinese martial arts in 20th century.
Theory of yiquan shi li
The methods in yiquan are not superficial, partial techniques, but methods-principles. “No method” about which we say in yiquan is based on “using method”. Only thanks to hard practice on the stage of “using method”, you can move to the stage of “no method”. This is the process about which old masters of xingyiquan said: from clear force (ming jin), through hidden force (an jin) to transformed force (hua jin). The ultimate goal is “issuing force according to feeling, according to situation”. If from the beginning you will think only about “formlessness”, it will be like trying to build a wall from withered grass – first wind and rain will destroy it.
Training methods
The basic goal of martial art training is increasing fighting ability.
Yiquan - benefits
Better knowledge about yourself enables authentic self-development
Yiquan. Motor coordination abilities and mental training
A person's level of coordination abilities affects the speed of learning technical skills and possibility of successing in this, and is also the basis for adaptability of technical skills.
Zhan zhuang and Shi Li
This time I would like to talk about health and combat aspects of yiquan (dachengquan) from various points of view.
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