Qigong Leg exercise and joint longevity videos

[stormshadow]

This guy does a really good job of demonstrating and adding good form pointers to focus on. Also find relaxing. I know that some of you do Qigong. To those that do it I am sure you get benefits, both mental and physical. To those that do not I do recommend it.

I still have not found a good video on how to disable a person across a room or free space with a Chi Blast though.

[macky]

Thank you Stormshadow. Here's another good demo of some chi kung which will help the legs too.

I have to admit,  I don't do it often enough.  It's the sort of thing I got into after I popped my first hernia back in 1986. 

[Deuce Gunner]

Alternating 8 Brocades with something like the 5 Tibetan Treasures is a good plan. I just think that getting down on the ground and getting back up is essential. Even if all you do is make sure that you can get down on the ground and stand back up unassisted.

[stormshadow]

Thanks for the video Macky. Great form on her. DG, good idea to do that. I don't like to do the Kettle bell Turkish Get Up but it is great for the last part of your post.

[Bob50]

If we do these exercises with moderate muscle co-contraction/co-tension we can get perfect KSHD. Of course, it will not be real Qigong, but we can get both strength and flexibility.

[TexasRanger]

Aug 22, 2018 15:48:04 GMT Bob50 said:

If we do these exercises with moderate muscle co-contraction/co-tension we can get perfect KSHD. Of course, it will not be real Qigong, but we can get both strength and flexibility.

Yep, you'll be doing real Qigong.  It is all an experiment of one.  

In one of Shifu Yan Lei
's videos, he's doing dynamic tension when he performs his Qigong workout.  

[TexasRanger]

And while it isn't an intense PT or weight lifting workout, Lei's video will work up a good sweat if performed as he recommends.

[Bob50]

Agree,TX. The hard Qigong may be very effective training. However, I prefer a little bit slower performance with deeper mind involvement.

[Deuce Gunner]

Posted this on this board back in the YuKu days. It bears repeating:

[MBS]

Aug 21, 2018 22:05:12 GMT Deuce Gunner said:

........l. Even if all you do is make sure that you can get down on the ground and stand back up unassisted.

So important. A lot people can’t get off the floor without using there hands.   

[TexasRanger]

Aug 22, 2018 17:54:14 GMT Deuce Gunner said:

Posted this on this board back in the YuKu days. It bears repeating:

A lot of his stuff is pretty ridiculous, but, Dr. Oz had a segment on a couple of years ago citing if you can't get up unassisted (no hands) from a sitting position on the floor, you're too out of shape and overweight.  He said an estimated 80% or more of the population can't do this.  (He also spent part of that segment or another emphasizing stretching for arterial health, noting it is critical as we age that we regularly stretch.)

[macky]

After I popped a hernia in the mid-80s I stopped weight training and got into chi kung full time for several years. I did mainly Baduanjin and a form of Yi Jin Ching as taught by Yang Wing-Ming, a 12-position stationary drill where the chi is continuously guided to the open palms which are very slightly tensed on the gentle out-breath.

Both forms were done as relaxed as possible, with the mind on the energy, and after some time the muscles were soft and relaxed but I could easily tense them and make them as hard as ever they have been doing isometrics, KSHD etc. I also gained some strength even though none of the drills I did were "hard" qigong. I could describe the type of strength as starting from the ground up and "unified".

After a few months I was on the telecom job cutting a 30pr cable with one snip of my 5" side cutters (I had not done any grip work at all) and I broke one of the handles in two places. It was witnessed by a workmate who was as surprised as I was. Usually when one was cutting something beyond the ability of a pair of side cutters the jaws would break.

Other things started happening as well.  With one of the postures of the Yi Jin Ching I could feel the wife's edge of her "aura" and stand behind her, pushing and pulling until she lost her balance.  That's from a stance that was not braced, but stable.  She had been a karate exponent for 5 years which was a particularly "hard" style, but still understood what was happening. 

If I was within about 15 feet of the TV and it was turned off on remote, it would often turn on when I was performing the Yi Jin Ching, or if on, would switch off. Both my wife and daughter witnessed this happening several times.

With chi kung the way it is supposed to be practiced, you're not going to lift huge weights, but there has been instances where some unusual strength has been demonstrated by otherwise slight persons.   So-called "hard qigong" is really muscle-tensing with the mind on the movements and muscles, extremely beneficial in some cases, but not the same as the relaxed postures and movements.

Lately,  there is a simple chi kung call Ping Shuai which is worth trying for those that are into chi kung, the arms swing in unison while the mind is held on the Dantien, an area just below the navel.  I did this exclusively for some time shortly after my last isometric bout in 2014-15, and I didn't have to visit the doctor for over a year, something which was unprecedented.  In fact he called me in to check up on me because of it.  He was Chinese and understood what I was doing when I told him.

It's hard to imagine that relaxed chi kung can bring any strength or power, but it certainly does.  Don't expect to get any muscle development though. That's not what chi kung is.

  

[doomfarer1]

Aug 22, 2018 17:54:14 GMT Deuce Gunner said:

Posted this on this board back in the YuKu days. It bears repeating:

Thank you Deuce that is a terrific video.

[macky]

Aug 22, 2018 17:54:14 GMT Deuce Gunner said:

Posted this on this board back in the YuKu days. It bears repeating:

Thanks Deuce.  Good stuff, plain and simple.

[mr potatohead]

Aug 22, 2018 17:54:14 GMT Deuce Gunner said:

Posted this on this board back in the YuKu days. It bears repeating:

Thanks for reposting this DG.