VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: [1] ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 06:36:05 04/04/02 Thu
Author: Nakedswordsman
Subject: Re: Horse Stance Training
In reply to: Goktimus Prime 's message, "Horse Stance Training" on 09:34:44 06/04/01 Mon

Hsu most likley refering not just to sinking into a horse stance, and not a purely metaphorical 'rooting' (sorry couldn't resist) Qi can be absorbed from many sources, one of which is the earth we stand on. The earth is the source of the 'best qi' for strengthening a stance - di qi, solid and steadfast. Drawing on this qi enhances the stability of the stance and is essential to a good foundation. Ma Bu without it is comparable to the difference between standing still and trying to 'think heavy' (but not getting any heavier) and Hung Gar's 'famous thousand pound stance', in which an adept is immovable and undetatchable from the ground they stand on. Mention of practitioners of, and the training of the stance can be found in 'Internal and External Kung Fu' H.C.Chao, Taiwan 1989. (And yes it is true though i have only seen it personally once in Melbourne and was (un)fortunate to be one of the foolish skeptics involved in unsuccessfully attempting to, individually and later as a cooperative, lift the 55kg Hung Gar master.)
And yes, the further away from the earth you are, the harder it is to make the connection, i am almost sure that vinyl tiles contain absolutely no qi whatsoever (joke, even they have inherent qi)but you get the point, its more difficult. This one of the basic precepts of qi gong training.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.