Zhaobao Tai Chi is based on softness, uses softness as its function, and overcomes hardness with softness, and then achieves a balance of hardness and softness. When practicing, you should be calm and peaceful; a slight difference will lead to a great loss. The law of the center of the circle! Whether the practice is accurate determines the effect of Tai Chi health preservation. Therefore, to practice Tai Chi health preservation, you must know how to practice Tai Chi.
1: Master the boxing theory
The boxing theory of Zhaobao Tai Chi is subtle and the rules are strict. From the skin, hair, bones, flesh, tendons, collaterals, qi, blood, and internal organs, there are rules and regulations everywhere. For example, what does the boxing theory of “the spirit is the king and the bones and flesh are the ministers” mean? You must grasp the essentials on the basis of understanding. After the boxing theory of each part is understood, the boxing will naturally be easier to practice. You will know what to do and how to make each part of the body abide by the law. What standards or requirements should each part meet, you must ask why? To truly understand. If you can’t control your own parts, then you can’t control (attack) others, and the other party will definitely control (attack) you.
2: Learn to stand in a stance
Stand in a stance, adjust your body, and practice the requirements of practicing Tai Chi into your body first. For example, you must keep your spirit, calm your mind, lift your head and hang your crotch, relax your shoulders and sink your elbows, and let your qi reach your dantian. Wrap your crotch, gather your hips, empty your chest and fill your abdomen. Press your tongue against your jaw, and other requirements, and really enter your body; keep these rules and requirements, and then proceed to the next step.
3: Walking Tai Chi Steps
Walking Tai Chi Steps is also called walking stances. That is, dynamic stances. When practicing Tai Chi Steps, you may not be able to keep the rules and requirements, but you must keep them. It has the same requirements as standing in a stance, except that your legs are walking and walking. When walking, your body must be absolutely stable, not up and down, and look straight ahead about 10 meters. Of course, there are standards and sizes for walking stances, and these must be mastered.
4: Practice the stance
After practicing Zhaobao Tai Chi Steps, you can start practicing stances. Mastering Tai Chi Steps lays a solid foundation for practicing stances and taking over martial arts. When practicing stances, don’t be greedy for too many styles; greedy for too much, you can’t chew it. You should practice a form well, and then move on to the next form after you have no sickness. Use the four sicknesses of top, flat, throw, and resist to find yourself. Then find relaxation, stretching, generosity, and naturalness.
5: Understand the power
People who are deep in Tai Chi know that only when you understand the power can you be divine. After practicing the frame, you should find compactness. When practicing compactness, you should pay attention to the size. If the size is wrong, the qi cannot enter the bones, and the power will not be applied to the body. Check whether each form enters the body; whether each hand or each movement meets the requirements; whether the opening and closing can achieve no movement when moving, and no stillness when still; whether each hand has the spiral force and the twisting force. When moving, it spirals! You should also know whether the force comes from the waist and whether the force is taken from the feet. It is sent to the legs through the soles of the feet and then to the waist. It is sent to the arms through the waist. It is shaped in the fingers and other requirements. You should strictly check yourself. Then check whether you have sick forms and sick hands, and be in place everywhere and everything is appropriate. If you can do all of these, you will be reborn, the whole body will be in one, the qi will be gathered into the bones, the three gates will be activated, the whole body will be one, the inside and outside will be unified, the yin and yang will be balanced, and the opening and closing will be natural and appropriate. This is to understand the power, and you will be close to the gods.
6: Handover
After understanding the power, practice handover. Handover too early will cause many sick hands, sick power, and sick styles, which will be difficult to correct over time. Find the power through handover, peng, lu, ji, an, cai, li, zhou, kao, jin, tu, gu, guang, ding; check: whether “four ounces to move a thousand pounds” is achieved; whether the power is changed from the inside, and self-sacrifice follows others; whether the other party does not move, I do not move, the other party moves slightly, I move first; whether single-weight force is used and then enters a chaotic circle. After the handover practice is mature, it lays the foundation for fighting.
7: Fighting
No matter what Tai Chi style, fighting and health preservation are the highest goals. Lack of either is not ideal. In history, there were many masters, but why are there so many practitioners and few fighting now? This is because our hearts have not reached it. You should know that taking over is not the goal, fighting and health preservation are the highest goals. You should find changes and strength from every posture and every hand. Peng, Lu, Ji, An, Cai, Lie, Zhou, Kao, Jin, Tui, Gu, Pan, Ding. Tai Chi has no empty postures, every posture can be used to hit people, and every posture has infinite changes, combining hardness and softness. As long as you find a wise master to guide you and practice seriously according to the requirements of boxing theory; you will naturally become a master of Tai Chi fighting and health preservation. As long as you practice according to the above seven requirements, people will balance yin and yang and supplement the innate. The five elements are interdependent, and the mind is calm and the spirit is relaxed. The qi is like bones, and once the qi and blood are prosperous, the body will become stronger day by day, and the disease will naturally disappear.