Open Your Kua By Focusing On Your FEET in Tai Chi
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Unlock the hidden knowledge of proper foot positioning in Tai Chi. I go barefoot in this video to help you understand the subtle yet game-changing nuances of weight distribution and internal alignment. Understanding the role of your feet positioning and weighting can drastically improve your practice. I also delve into overcoming my foot fractures and proving my podiatrist wrong by no longer needing to wear custom orthotics. Let me know in the comments if you tried out the change in foot position and feel the difference in your stability! 👣
🥋 My first martial arts teacher was Kyoshi Thomas Clifford, founder of Thomas Clifford's Martial Arts in Rockland County, NY: thomasclifford.... I would not be where I am today without his training and guidance. He encouraged me to train under Master Aiping after I moved from NY to CT and the rest is history... I will be forever grateful 🙏❤️
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I have crushed spinal discs, and a left leg that is weak. My lift knees hurts all the time and am taking Sun style for arthritis. This has given me balance and strength in my legs. You teaching how to place the feet has cured my knee pain, I know Tai Chi can heal my ills. I am 76 yrs old and I love tai chi.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am so glad this helped your knee pain 🙏❤️
I was looking for this kind of video showing how to position the feet as I wasn't sure if I was doing it right. This is the most important info that everyone should start with. I can already feel the change when doing my Qi Gong. Thank you!
I'm so glad this was helpful 🙏❤️
OH MY GOODNESS...
I have congenital flat feet, been wearing arch supports my whole life (Ahzner, Good Feet, Dr Scholls... you name it). I've also been practicing martial arts since I was 4, mostly Arnis/Escrima, but also karate, TKD, grappling, as well as intro Tai Chi in med school. Because I did Tai Chi much later after other martial arts, I could "catch on" to a lot of the postures relatively easily, especially with my natural flexibility.
HOWEVER
It never felt "right." Our instructor was wonderful, but since he focused mostly on the other (elderly) students, and I mostly "looked" right, I never got great instruction on details.
This ONE shift this morning has opened up not only my kua, but a WHOLE LOT of my structure!
Thank you SO MUCH for finally giving me a practical, detailed, specific change and tool I can use to change not only my Tai Chi practice, but quite literally the rest of my life!
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for sharing this! This video was meant exactly for someone like you to find it because I didn't see anyone else talking about it and I knew it could make a difference 🙏❤️
Mahalo sifu Shirley. One of my silat students is a young person with very tight legs/gait problems. This was very helpful!
Fantastic! I'm so glad. Thanks Josh 🙏❤️
Yeah, she says it has helped to be concious of her footwork through the day. Honestly, it also really helped me clarify certain biomechanics for the silat animal langkahs like Monkey & Tiger.
This indeed can be pretty clear once you pay attention to it. This always felt like a good starting structure for good Balance and Grounding. Great Lesson as always.
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Excellent and very helpful adjustment, thank you. It is also a good demonstration of how meticulous focus on exact positioning and inner sensitivity to that discipline are so important. The tiniest thing can have a mighty effect. Thank you for your excellent teaching, Sifu Shirley.
Thank you 🙏❤️
@@AipingTaiChid hi 😮😢😢
Thank you. That was helpful. I did this and practiced Peng and my arms were more relaxed and able to sense, and follow better.
I'm so glad this was helpful 🙏❤️
Totally works. I usually say, the outside of the feet are parallel, which will naturally bring the middle toe straight forward. This internal structure you speak of came to me after many many years of practice, for a beginner imagining or 'faking it till you make it' philosophy can help start the process of nurturing the internal structure.🙏
Thank you, Shirley! I'd just tried this and noticed my upper body was able to relax, instantly. It seemed to make my breathing more effortless. I will work with this more. Yes, more details about developing the internal structure would be helpful. Do you have any guided standing meditations on your channel?
I'm so glad Mike ❤️🙏 I bought a podcast mic so I can have better audio recordings and will be making some guided meditation 😁 Stay tuned!
@@AipingTaiChiI appreciate all that information you are truly right not a lot of Chinese martial arts teachers teach you the basics. I'm basically self-taught again in drunken fist kung fu.
Thanks, it is very interesting and I would appreciate more videos about the construction of the internal structure and the relation with the fascia.
Yes I can make that. Also Damian Neve and Coach Chong Xie (Hyperarch Fascia Training) are both experts in explaining this in more technical detail. Damian does mostly UA-cam live streams. Chong Xie is really active on Instagram.
Thank you very much - this is a great explanation and demonstration! And it fits well with some imagery I like to use for myself and when teaching - that our skeletal structure itself can be strong and supportive like an inuksuk, where every stone is separate, but the smallest details in alignment of individual parts at lower levels allow the whole structure to have amazing balance and give strong support to what is above. Then we aren’t asking our muscles, tendons and ligaments to do extra work, so there is more relaxation.
Yes 💯 Thanks for sharing that wonderful visualization ❤️🙏
This was useful. Please talk more about internal alignment thanks
🙏❤️ I will 😁
Very. Interested i would like tomlear about internal aligment .i have not a very good balance do to a luck of strenght in my left side i sufer 10 year ago a stroke and end up with a drop foot wich recupared a lot hut still that food is weak
Excellent video. This plus the white crane video taught me so much. The subtle things are - as you said - totally significant.
Thank you 🙏❤️
Perfect description of internal structure power. Easily understood.
I'm so glad this was helpful 🙏❤️
Es extremadamente útil como inusual que se transmitan con tanta generosidad estos tips de tan difícil descubrimiento personal . Muchas gracias y sería de inestimable ayuda continuar con este tipo de enseñanza
Thank you so much 🙏❤️ These are things that have really helped me and I know many people suffer from knee pain and knee injuries like I did and hope it can help them
Thank You Shirly, your explanations are so clear and concise I find them some of the best on youtube. I wish you were in NJ, I'd be your student. Yes! your guidance on foot position and pressure aiming the second toe felt like a vale lifting in my experience. I have also had knee surgeries and ankle injuries and realize the internal imbalances that exist. I will keep this in mind during my practice, thank you so much.
Thank you so much 🙏❤️ I'm so glad the videos are helpful ☺️
Thank you, this is so useful. I would love to hear more on this subject.
Thank you 🙏❤️
Thank you for this excellent instruction! You have a gift of making things so clear and understandable. I enjoy your videos so much.
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Very helpful! This is wonderful and practical knowledge! Thank you so much!
I'm so glad this was helpful 🙏❤️
Thank you for sharing your knowledge i understand completely as I'm doing exactly what you say my teeth are coming into line eyes ears and pane leaveing body after long journey since 1995 after car crash? Repair goers beowen into childhood. You have all ways helped me with your loving and caring advice I'm glad to say life is very good and I'm starting to enjoy everything even the smallest things sending you a fulfilling day with joy from a great full of fan. 🎶💜😊🙏☯️☮️🎯
Thank you for sharing this beautiful comment 🙏❤️
Thank you! ❤
Thank you!!! Like you I have a skeletal limitation (missing bone in vertebrae), and I have trouble with the opening hip and stepping movement which causes misalignment in my pelvis/lumber spine. I keep hoping that if I can keep proper form, I'll be able to do tai chi, which I really like. I've learned several forms, but always give up because it messes up skeleton somewhere.
Make sure you take very small steps and incorporate much more standing practice to get your proper alignment first. People know the saying you have to learn to walk before you run but in Tai Chi it's really you have to learn how to stand before you walk. I have found in my students who struggle most with stepping they haven't gotten their standing alignment correct yet and I have them work on that as their sole practice at home. Hope that helps!
@@AipingTaiChi Thank you! Yes, I'm sure you're right.
Yes I have focussed on this and agree
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Interesting subject. William CC Chen does Tai Chi Chuan, with fingers and toes :)
William CC Chen is such an inspiration 🔥
Excellent
Magical touch by allow big and second toes pointing forward and press down big toes. This will make inner arch lift up effortlessly and feet are easy to put equal weight to the heels and ball. This makes inner structure stable and settled. Now my question is I truly appreciate this tree standing position, is the same principle while I am moving back and forward? Every step I press down my big toes?
Yes, also stepping backwards too. Never lose contact of your big toe to the ground when foot is supposed to be rooted 😁
@@AipingTaiChi Thanks for your teaching. I got the point. Very helpful.
Thanks Sifu! The more specific on fundamentals, the better ☯️
Do you do any glute exercise or its possible to strenght them only with taiji footwork?
Thank you 🙏❤️ There are many great gluten exercises. Side to side walking in a squat position, making sure knees are aligned with toes is a great exercise. Tai Chi backwards walking making sure your foot positioning is in correct position is also really great.
Thank you so much Sifu Shirley. Incredibly clear instructions.
Do we keep the same foot position if we transfer to stand on one leg?
Thank you 🙏❤️ Standing on one leg is easier to have supporting foot angled outwards a bit.
I love you Shirley💞✨
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Definitely very helpful - thank you! Question: can you turn too inwards, in terms of feet position?
Thank you 🙏❤️ Yes, do not turn the feet too inwards. That is bad for your knees and for your structure
Excellent could you please make otbers ideos❤ thank you😂
Thank you for the video. Is it the same in case of flat feet??
🙏❤️ I do believe you can strengthen and build your arch when you have flat feet
XLNT 😊☯️
Hi, when you say to put pressure down behind the balls of the feet where do you mean exactly?
Try this. Hold on to something for support. Lift up your heels. Then also lift up your toes. That middle where you are balancing your weight.
@@AipingTaiChi thankyou
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