This is the best explanation of tai chi for Western minds I've seen. Especially the explanation of the fascia which is often left out.

What a gift you have for explaining things! I've read or watched a great deal of material on Taiji and you are able to take slippery concepts from one culture/language/time and translate it into something we can easily understand here, today. Thank you for the work you do.

Thank you so much. Your explanations are very appreciable and there are few teachers who explain the operating principles of Tai Chi Chuan so well!

Thank you! Very exciting. I like the analogies like the bowling ball, swimming, and water fall over the body. The analogies are powerful visuals that help tremendously. Excellent job as always. Your students are so very fortunate to have you.

This is a great explanation. A great resource to learn from here. Thank you for sharing I will definitely watch this quite a few times I reckon.

Thanks for posting these incredible videos 🙏

Very clear explanations in your video, it’s for anyone to understand. Thank you so much ! If it’s in anyway possible, the captions on the bottom of the screen are disappearing a bit to early, maybe you cand keep them on for 2/3 sec more, that would be great!

I have been studying taichi for about a year now and this made many things clear for me. Thank you

My summary of the main components: 1. Physical: exerting/Taking force while staying relaxed (like swinging a bowling ball or sloshing water) 2. Intention: - keeping incoming force at the surface (rather than letting it penetrate into oneself) & - directing attack force around/through the opponent's strong points to reach their weak points 3. Energy: - Influencing the opponent's "vibe" to weaken them

The way you explain these ideas is very clear. A good way to help people understand how to proceed. The super subtle things came come later. Thank you.

Great video! You are an intelligent guy. Good explanations.

The way my teacher describes the ward off is kind of similar to what your student said about iron Man suit. He said it's like holding a shield, and you can feel your opponents spear through the shield and control the spear by turning your body and shield together to deflect. Now you control your opponents weapon and center of mass and you have a clear line to strike him while he's off balance

Great video 🙏

Thanks!

@Phoenix Mountain Taichi Excellent explanation about everything 👏 👌 👍 🙌 😀 jus the sub titles were disappearing bit to fast, I had to keep on pausing then un pausing to read them and understand what you were talking about at the same time to carry on with the video tutorial 😀 😉 👍 😄 😜

Your explanations are the best I've ever heard! In this video Master Chester you provide greater insight and it has given rise to another question. When learning to feel for the opponent's fascia to sense the connections throughout their structure, what exactly should I be aiming for? What goal do I aim for? I know what heat on my skin feels like, pain from being punctured, pressure and even what an electric shock feels like. But what does it feel like to connect to the opponent's structure? How will I recognize that I've succeeded? It seems mystical.

Master you just took my taichi practice to next level .Thank you.

Really good video mate, keep it up ❤

The best explanation ever

Great video thanks

Thank you so much

Thankyou kindly

thank you so much for your explanations. They are very clear to help understand tai chi.

Thank you master for expanding my awareness on Taichi.

Thanks!🙏

Most of the time you only see teachers "throwing away" their pupils. Here you also see it the other way around! Besides the very clear explanation of power transfer, it makes it also much more easy to "believe" to be true. In addition, I wonder why the West has not developed and encouraged this facia knowledge at all! However, experiencing this exercise based on the shown training is "believing" of course!

Good explanation

Implying to have the previous skills (relaxation / release of excessive tension, good structure / posture, therefore knowing how to use the elastic force by transferring the weight and doing it quickly with fajin), using qi is having awareness of energies such as yi, the intention, is having awareness of the use of the band. For example, using Chen style terminology, knowing how to apply chanssujin is awareness of the fascia and using qi is applying techniques, such as imbalances and projections,chin na and immobilizations, but having awareness of the energies that compose it (8 energies and the 5 directions)and knowing how to direct them with awareness? Anyway, thank you very much Sifu for your always informative and interesting videos.

I started being interested in meditation since I was 8 years old. I found out about tai chi around 9 years old now I am 32 years old and you can imagine the interest I have in this technique which is by war is not so difficult, it only today I'm getting more and more material and returning the hope to find some answers since no matter what I try I even know many moves from taiushi physically I can replicate them but so far no success whatsoever at all no matter how hard I tried whether without partner I just don't have enough knowledge or understanding. I've watched or listened to videos of lama don't drop Dorje so many times did I know them by heart, also read so many books so many times and no matter how hard or soft I tried it doesn't work for me. There has to be something else that you're hiding... I mean all of you Masters who are showing tai chi techniques which really look like wonders, are actually talking a lot but are not actually revealing whatever's most important to even start feeling that energy to search an extent level so professionally in that 99.9% of earthlings think it's all fake and they shouldn't spend any time on this yet I have spent over 15 years practicing and have not get any results because I'm just poor I have no choice I can't pay a lot of money for something I'm not even sure it is 100% real and only over the time of these 20 years I just couldn't believe it isn't real because I'm just crazy like that and it ends up probably being real still cannot replicated no matter how hard I try because nothing of knowledge is there any way I can get enough knowledge without paying money because I don't have money unfortunately. I would really like to learn this before my body gets too old to even try. I believe my mission in this earth is learning Tai chi as one of very key elements. But in every video most important parts are either left out or just not explained so that the regular human can understand, so anybody can learn this. Sure ask for money I don't care I'll just make it no matter what I have to learn this. And I tried many ways it never ever even began to work anyway. That's why from one side I know this is real a higher power is telling me, but as a physical human realistic being I cannot believe this and I understand people who say this is bullshido. I'm not trying to learn this for fighting it's just my mission in this world it is 100% if this thing is real I have to learn it that's it not to fight I don't like fighting at all and I like the idea of lama don'drop Dorje that rivalry shouldn't even exist, that we are all created for the purposes of true compassion with one another and there shouldn't be any rivalry or wars of course. I don't even know what's the purpose of my comment I watched the whole video I did not get any better than I was when I was 9.

22:09 That's fascinating - it kind of implies that floating and sinking are two prerequisite internal skills that need to be place before we even start with the Tai Chi, and before we start shaping the energy with open/close and empty/full. As if the class instructor is saying "Before we start our form can everyone quickly show me how they float and sink? Just need to check you're all in the right class..." (It's at that point everyone would discover I was in the wrong class! 😬)

Thank you for sharing. A question if i may... How do you approach opening the lower waist and sinking the tail bone/pelvis? Also do you adhere to the concept of sink the flesh and float the bones

This is a really clear explanation of something that is otherwise very difficult to understand.

Really good video. Very few share this knowledge on KZfaq. Been training Cheng style for 2 years but once away from our advanced training sessions I don’t have a partner which makes it a little difficult. Thanks for some really good content. Regards, Dave UK.

Great explanation! Helped me to clarify the objectives of training and probably a video I will come back to regularly for inspiration and motivation. The only thing is that this is not a video I would be showing to non-tai chi or internal art folks due to the use of traditional terminology; not going to have to try to explain that this is not magic or mysticism for the Nth time.

When being attacked, where do we place our intention? If I understand correctly we need to stay relaxed so we are able to see their intention and observe where they're fixated on to then anticipate and divert their force/momentum. In the meantime though, where are we placing our intention? On safeguarding our core? "Armouring" up? Hope I got the concepts right. Please correct if I'm on the wrong track. Great vid, btw. Thanks for sharing.

Another very good video. Can you tell where do you sink? Is it in the other persons body or do you extend your energy and sink behind the otherones body?

Thank you, this is the insight I have been looking for, for many years already without success (except for today 😃)! I am a fencing teacher (saber) trying to incorporate Tai Chi principles into our art. Since we as fencers cannot touch each others fascia, do you still see possibilities for floating, sinking or perhaps more applicable (from your explanation @15:15) to have our partners mind latch on to our outward directed awareness so that they follow ? Also, I would very much like to send you a SuperThanks for your insightful and generous explanation, but using the KZfaq Thanks button above will send 30% right to KZfaq... Could you please point me a way to avoid that ? Thank you.

This info is useful for all levels of training. Actually nobody teaches like this in China, these would be considered secrets only taught once students prove themselves for several years or decades. At that point students already discover this stuff on their own, so that's a very drawn out process and defeats the purpose of taking a class and having a teacher. But this guy just says it all at once and for free.

Sifu, how does the level of chi affect the result, if one while using yi intends to send more chi into the body?

Where does this concept of Kao come from? It seems more like what I've more often encountered as Peng and when discussing the bear hug, you do mention Peng. So what is the relationship between Peng and Kao in yiur system? And where do you get the interpretation of "rely on" and this employment of this Jin? 🙏

This is what Sifu Fong said. Don't play someone else's game or you stand a good chance of losing.

A friend of mine tried the "intent thing". He completely relaxed as much as possible so he doesn't fall he was sitting on the chair his intent was so strong he fell unconsciousness and I had to call an ambulance. Needless to see the power you are showing did not work. What's the secret I know about intent I know about fascia I know about energy inside the body I can feel all that when I meditating I can even feel it flowing with my blood but how do I direct it and bring it outside of my body I can only talk about it I cannot do it.

I have experience taking on Karate and Wing Chun fighters who were accomplished. Their skills evaporated with my fearless, aggressive non-stop attacks that were meant to damage. The only fight I have ever lost was with a college wrestler. I was born with unnatural ape strength, but he had me twisted backward so quickly that I thought my back was breaking. They are about the only fighters I wouldn't want to fight again.

Thank you. sometimes we need a more advance Tai Chi instructor to take us to the next level.

How many fighting competition does he won ?

The gentle giants are being peaceful 👍

But can you do it while someone is punching you in the head? Taiji is functional and practical, but what are the true skills?

Tis a nice life. 😁

I also can't comprehend how can somebody be completely relaxed and stand up without collapsing every time I try I just collapse. You just have to relax enough try it even if you keep the most stable structure without using almost any muscle you can only do it for a few seconds because our bodies mostly water and you just feel it if you relax completely there's no way you can stand up maybe for a couple of seconds before that 1 mg of balance to the right flips your body to the right and it collapses and that is only if you are really really relaxed as they are saying. So, according to physics it is not possible for a human body at least for a human physical body to stand up straight without using any muscle whatsoever although our mind can do that. It is clear to me for a long time already that we are not our body and that our body is not we because consciousness can do much more than the body can like teleporting like anything else supernatural our body can not do although our consciousness can that's how somebody thought of creating fairy tales because that was the only way to manifest at least to some point the power of our consciousness. But when you go against physics no matter how we can imagine ourselves to be it is not possible to fool physics. Yet every master is saying that you have to be completely relaxed and even more relaxed than that in order to achieve whatever you're showing on video. I heard it I know it by heart but I cannot understand it please show me what to read I am sure it cannot be explained in a couple of words or maybe by words whatsoever. I do have connection with higher power because again I've been meditating for too long of a time to achieve no goals at all so I know there are possible things to do in this world that dont correlate with physics or the things that physics cannot explain. But since you are saying a machine could replicate that it has to be connected to physics and I just cannot connect it inside my mind ; just please don't write physics formulas I know nothing of school physics I know just what actual physics are like from my personal experience because whatever they taught in school I don't see useful at all so formulas won't work for me

I'm sorry I'm not trying to flood your screen by posting too many comments but it just was happening is that my fault I just cannot stop talking because I for the time of 10 trying to understand this. So you are telling me that this can be replicated by machinary which was opposite of what I believed I thought only living beings can affect other living beings with this energy and I suppose I was wrong at root. Alright that's like a huge Discovery I think I just realized in theory how Egyptians moved all those rocks to create pyramids, and I will possibly be the closest one of all to the truth but still even though I can possibly now explain it I still don't understand it!

No matter how much I try to connect the puzzles inside my head of everything I've ever seen about tai chi they just don't connect at all. And you're saying this is physics and it can be replicated by robots now that's very very interesting that means anyone can learn this without any special training longer than a couple of months which is a huge claim. I mean come on how is this work with physics? No matter what posture or what intention or what mind state you use if you are relaxed and somebody actually pushes you with one finger he's gonna move you according to physics. Especially if you are a robot. In physics I can understand this to the very first point where I could somehow bend my body and shift my center weight so the guy just misses me and pushes on My shoulder x instead of the center of my body but it is also physics you are saying you're not even using physics to your completely relaxed which means you're not using your muscles at all not even to evade the punches I cannot understand this. We need more information whoever doesn't understand this from scratch and tries to understand it maybe there's somebody else in my situation is there anybody else here who studied this for 20 years without exaggeration, just because he would like this to be true he would love this to be true and he was believing with his whole heart that one day he'll find out that this is true. Man how much literature how much text I know by heart without understanding how this works it's amazing 20 years on and off returning to the subject learning more theory and non-practice at all because whatever I practice it does not work like that at all I do not understand the secret it just has to click inside my head come on who can do that??

fight me and see

NOT Taijiquan at all!

Thanks!