How to practice taijiquan waist and hips

When we learn to practice Taijiquan, both hips must be loosened and the crotch held round. Loosening the hips even a little bit can be done, not loosening the hips or not loosening the waist can not make the internal qi and internal energy.

• The standard of loose hips:

Double crotch can sink, crotch open round, legs bent at the knee; upper body weight can through the crotch and knee to the foot weight, crotch relative weight; double crotch with the center of gravity of the body to move the crotch can also be appropriate weight, the conversion is flexible, the lower plate is solid.

• The feeling of loose hips:

Human weight has been tied to the knee has been under the calf and heel; in the knee does not lean forward under the premise of the crotch can be up and down; the weight of the upper body of the people down to the loose sinking of the crotch there is a release of energy from the top to the bottom of the release of the feeling; when you contraction of the perineum, the crotch there is a kind of suction feeling.

Through quiet and slow practice, we will find the feeling through careful realization.

Waist and hips practice method

Shoulder open a point, crotch open an inch you are half of the martial arts handle, crotch activities to increase the amount of non-training hard training is not easy to come by, crotch and waist movements are closely related, such as waist movement, will inevitably lead to crotch movement, especially in the forward, back leg conversion movement, as well as the left and right look forward to the process of the power of the waist and crotch with the whole body to drive the activities of the whole body, and the hair of the power of the action must be loose crotch, loose crotch is really a Sinking the hips, in order to send the whole strong.

Hip

Two shoulders to find two waist, two waist to find two hips, in order to stabilize their own body, turn waist and hips gas to the dantian. Convergence of the body, the external shape seems to be the elbow in the recovery premise walk around the movement, but in fact is a crotch with the elbow, elbow with the hand, with the elbow down to the side of the body into a circle recovery, step with the momentum can be slightly closed to become a false toe pointing to the ground, the real leg down, crotch down to the loose and sinking power, the body advanced two heads, hit people like a kiss, tightly followed by the pointing to the ground before the false step forward to the top of the idea of lifting the lower jaw slightly closed, the head and the feet smooth power to go, naturally the body into the success of the momentum, that is, for the hand This is the hand into the foot landing force and issued.

Waist

Boxing spectrum: “waist for the master” “waist like an axle” “pay attention to the gap in the moment” words although only a few words. But it is enough to warn the scholars about the importance of “waist power” in Taijiquan, and it will be raised to the theory to explore this issue. In the routines, or push hands sparring, free fighting, or actual combat against the enemy, the potential potential strokes are all through the waist, and it can be weighed that “practicing taijiquan is equal to not knowing if you can’t practice on the waist”. Taijiquan Jinli” the weight of this sentence, there are several years of pure power, can not transport and transformation, than both, do not know how to practice, will not practice, often spend a lot of time is not practiced waist strength to, and lead to several years of work to lose the effort of a waste of time, so that some people, although also said to be very diligent, practiced for a long time but not a lot of long progress, but only to get a flower frame only.

Taijiquan’s concept of using the waist

Beginning to learn taijiquan push hands of people in general often only to the upper limb movement as a point of attention, day and night still Lezhong in a move a style potential on the mind, but also some people although they also claim to waist often hang on the side of the mouth, can be specific to the line of work to go frame, in the practice of push hands on the waist.

This phenomenon is more than one person, from the imagination also know that taijiquan can not be separated from the waist, but once put into practice that is at a loss, the waist at this time I do not know where to go, want to use can not be used. That is, because of the usual practice of taijiquan on the waist strength to really understand the understanding of the step enough, and by the specialized training is still too little, the loss of the waist strength and step for the strange, know to the reason to do, so concluded. To learn taijiquan this kung fu, we have to specialize in waist training.

Only know that there is a hand and talk about waist strength, so may wish to simply put aside the first hand, the idea, up and down, retraction, that is, in the taijiquan this hand arrow strokes squeezed by picking the elbow leaning on the eight techniques desire method of action potential. The focus of the idea activity from the hand and then transferred to the waist, so sex hand completely forgotten, the idea of their own does not exist, which is called to lose the hand in order to find the waist, so as to realize the waist power to.