The essence of Tai Chi is to find and follow your own inner rhythm, so that the spirit, speed and inner strength can be perfectly integrated with the boxing, thus opening the window of the soul and experiencing an inner joy that is difficult to measure with money.
When practicing boxing, it is not the more force you use, the better, but the more you open, the stronger you will be. It is the pursuit of a smooth and lasting power. If you force things to grow, your body will be deficient. If you force yourself to hold back, your qi and blood will become poisonous. Excessive force will damage your body, and the suppressed force will lead to poor qi and blood.
In the practice of Tai Chi, we must learn to listen to the voice of the body, rather than just relying on the thinking of the brain. The subconscious is hidden in the body, and the body reacts before the brain thinks.
When we devote ourselves to the dynamics, no longer deliberately thinking about every movement, but feeling it, this is the beginning of enlightenment.
The highest realm is not logical deduction, but an innate energy.
When practicing Tai Chi, we must master the degree, understand when to start, when to stop, and how to control the strength and timing, which are the keys to achieving precision. Becoming a Tai Chi master depends on their precise grasp of “degree”.
Tai Chi routines are not simple repetitions, but accurately draw a trajectory from beginning to end. Every time you punch, your mind, tendons, internal pressure, and kinetic energy can be perfectly combined.
Tai Chi is not about practicing strength with force, but practicing strength with lines.
Tai Chi emphasizes practicing strength with lines. Through full body relaxation, slow expansion, gentle spirals, and slow sinking, we seek a hidden line. This line is all over the body, like a net, with a fluctuating characteristic. Only by drawing arcs and walking in circles can we deeply experience this line.
In Tai Chi practice, we should pay attention to the movement of the scapula, and feel the opening and closing of the chest and back through the opening and closing of the scapula.
There is a membrane inside the torso that wraps the cavity. The so-called internal pressure swell, abdominal rotation, belt meridian circle movement, and two kidneys interlacing are all to open the spine through internal strength.
When we practice Tai Chi, the spine will generate a kind of undercurrent of power. The top of the head is gently lifted, and the Mingmen and Tanzhong points are opened and closed or kneaded, gently massaging the spine from the inside out, so that the spine fluctuates and responds to each other, thus creating a sense of hierarchy.
Tai Chi focuses on the power of relaxation and sinking. This power is a kind of transmission. It is not a simple squat, but a hierarchical relaxation of the spine, loosening each section and going down layer by layer. Going through each section, so that you can relax more thoroughly. Relaxing layer by layer, collapsing layer by layer, so that the entire spine flows.
For example, in the starting posture, we must maintain the empty spirit and top strength, determine the commanding height, gently rotate the shoulder joint backward, sink the shoulder, relax the ribs, unload the scapula, descend the diaphragm, sink the dantian, drop the hips, and step on both feet.
By analogy, when doing boxing, whether it is sinking or rising, do not go straight, slowly spread the waveguide, twist each joint, connect the points, the inner circle drives the outer circle, and the sense of hierarchy is separated, and the internal strength will inevitably be cultivated. Slowly, you will practice advanced dynamics, which is also the true meaning of boxing.