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COURSE
By Li Jiong
(Assisted by Timo Heikkila, Bertram Chock, Mike Cherrill and Vahid Jabbari)
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Preface
So relaxation means lack of any unnecessary tension, which is the meaning
of the saying "tension in relaxation." One should not, however, take the
approach of dividing the body into different parts and different muscles but
see it as a unity. The way of analyzing is not the way to learn Yiquan.
Analysis can explain the theory, while the real thing can only be understood
by personal experience; both have their own value and use.
In order to feel relaxation in its simplest form, stand still in a natural
posture, your hands hanging down relaxed on the sides. Note that if your
hands hang away from your body, it means you are tensing to keep them up,
once you relax them completely, they will hang down touching your body.
Then ask someone to grab your wrist and lift your hand and arm up, and
then let it loose, let it drop down. Here your friend can test whether you are
relaxed or not, if your hand feels light you are tensing up, while a heavy
hand is a sign of relaxation. That is because by tensing one will keep the
hand up with one's own strength, thus the other person does not need to exert
any strength. When he drops your hand, it should fall down immediately and
slap your leg or hips when it comes down, any delay before the hand falls
down means tension. A relaxed hand feels like a loose heavy rope, and feels
and looks like one even if the other person shakes it. Some might be able to
do this right away, while for others it might take a while to learn to let go of
all tension. After you can do it, it is time to move to the next exercise:
Since 1991, the first time I met Mr. Han Jingyu in Shanghai, about
twelve years passed. Guided by Mr. Han, I stepped in Yiquan world, and
from then on, I never gave up study. I am fortunate, I met a great teacher,
and he never gave up me. But the way of Yiquan Study is still not easy,
frankly speaking, I just saw the ultimate realm of Yiquan recently, and I do
not reach there yet. It is the common ideal of human being in fact, Taoism
calls it Tao; Buddhism calls it nirvana. People seek this ultimate result by
different ways, I approach it by Yiquan training, I believe now I will arrive
there sooner or later surely. From Mr. Wang Xiangzhai on, at least, there are
thousands practitioners did seek this ultimate result seriously by Yiquan
training, but few of them did arrive, most of them even did not see it clearly.
But believe me please, all efforts you do on Yiquan training will be worthy,
so long as you walk up the right way, every effort you do will get enough
repayment surely.
This is the second edition of our course. The first edition is a record of
Mr. Han’s teaching mainly; in this second edition, there may be more
comprehension of me. As a course, I think it tries the best already, after all,
there is not everything can be expressed by words. The rest relies on you,
exert your wisdom, don’t give up, I can arrive here, you can arrive too.
The first step--Relaxation Training
Exercise 1
Stand with your legs parallel, at about your shoulder width. Bend your
waist forwards about 45 degrees, keeping your back straight. Let your hands
and shoulders hang down loosely. If you stay relaxed like that, without
doing anything for a while you'll get a heavy feeling in your hands due to the
blood packing in there, but that is not the purpose or the goal of this exercise.
Next start moving your weight from one leg to another, keeping your hands
and shoulders completely relaxed. The movement caused by moving your
weight will make your hands wave like two big pendulums, or two thick and
loose ropes. Let the hands go with their own speed, don't even try control
them. If you ask another person to give a slight push to your hands at any
moment, your hands will give up and weave to the direction of the push
without any resistance. Again some might be able to do it right away, or
after a few minutes of practice, while for others it might take days, or even a
couple of weeks to learn it, it all depends on the level one starts from. Many
martial artists even with dozens of years of experience might lack this basic
skill of relaxing, and some might have made their bodies stiff and tense by
incorrect practice. But even if you would find it difficult to relax, remember
ORIGIN
: Why shall we do Relaxation Training? Because it is the basal
nature state of one's life, most time we stay in the relaxation state, if we
grasp this state well, we can get better rest, accordingly, we will get better
health, and consequently, we can enjoy our lives better. This is the origin of
Relaxation Training; all exercises are built on this origin. There are different
actions, just train you to be able to get into the Relaxation State in all kinds
of instances.
Relaxation means the muscles of the body not being contracted, and the
mind being tranquil. It is a state where the brain, central nervous system, and
the muscles are at rest. But is it possible to relax all the muscles? No, certain
muscles must always be supporting the frame, otherwise one will fall down.
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that relaxation is inherent in every one of us, it is an inborn and natural state
of ours, only hindered by tension. Anyone can attain it; all it takes is to stop
tensing. For many people it might indeed be more difficult not to do
anything, than to do many things. After one has learned to enter the state of
relaxation in this simple movement, it is time to extend this relaxed state into
a slightly more complicated movement.
down on your sides. Then start turning your body back and forth around the
central axis using the waist only, and your upper body will naturally follow,
the hands and shoulders still being like loose ropes, or pendulums of a rattle-
drum. Here you can feel your hands slapping your body in the front and
behind. You can try doing this movement with maximum speed, and if you
do it correctly, your relaxed hands will be hitting your shoulders or chest so
hard that it hurts very much. There's no need to keep doing the exercise with
such speed and get bruises, just try it to find out whether you can keep your
hands and shoulders relaxed. A qualified teacher can see it right away
whether one is relaxed when one does this, but without a teacher one has to
count on one's own judgment. If the hands are moving together with the
rotation of the waist, you are tensing the shoulders. When the hands and
shoulders are relaxed they will follow the movement with a small delay and
hit the body when it is already turning to another direction. This collision
will naturally change the direction of the hands. It is most likely that the
more one thinks of one's hands and relaxing, the more one will actually tense.
Forgetting the hands and shoulders, letting go of the tension will help in
relaxing them. So a beginner can pay his or her attention to turning of the
waist, make sure one does the movement around the central axis, without
moving the buttocks from side to side. If the hands do not slap the body at
every turn, another one in front and the other behind, it is a clear sign that
one is tensing them. The reason for the hands not slapping the body might be
unconscious fear, but after one can get over it, one will notice that there is no
pain involved.
Exercise 2
Stand straight with your legs parallel at shoulder width, as if you were
hanging from a rope from the crown of your head. Let your hands hang
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be a direct line between your both hands when the final point of every swing
is reached. If you get tired very fast, it's a sign of tension. At this point,
having mastered the previous exercises, you should also be able to
distinguish the difference between relaxation and tension, so you should
know by yourself whether you do it correctly or not. You may select a target
(such as a forested mountain or a tree), then focus on your hands, and little
by little, first imagine to point at it, then touch it, then push it, then pierce it
with your palm (chuanzhang), and then drill it with your fist (zuanquan).
One point must be noticed: one shouldn't limit his spirit on the target only,
the mind should permeate the target and reach very very far, and the spirit
should never be limited in the training.
After this has been learned, it is time to go on. What is meant by
"learned," is that one does it correctly every time. There are three phases for
each of these simple exercises: 1. "Completely wrong," 2. "Partly right,
partly wrong," and 3. "Always right." If one cannot overcome the first phase
in a few minutes, it's no use to keep on doing that exercise, but one should
move back to the previous exercise. In the second phase, one should do the
exercise much, practice earnestly until one reaches the third phase. After
getting to the third stage one does not need to keep on doing that exercise
anymore, it has served its purpose, that is, given you a feeling of a certain
state. At that point it is time to move to the next exercise. One can, however,
always return to the previous exercise to get a feeling of the correct state.
Exercise 3 - basis
The posture is same as in exercise 2, but now add a certain degree of
control in the movement, so that your other hand will swing directly forward,
and the other one backward. Choose a target in the distance in front of you,
at the eye level. Twisting your body, swing your hands towards this target,
the other hand always doing an opposite movement, that is, going backwards.
You can start with a smaller movement if you find it difficult to relax in the
"full" movement and when you can relax, just extend the movement, until
you reach the maximal movement. Going to the maximum, forces your
whole body to move, this is important later when issuing strength - even in a
tiny movement, every part of the body should move together. It is also
important to be able to relax in one's whole range of movement, thus when
doing this exercise, make sure that the body always turns so that there will
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After you can do this properly, take a narrow stance, start taking small
steps without moving towards any direction, as if you were walking
normally, just without moving forward. When your left hand swings forward,
step with your right foot, and vice versa. Remember to keep the movement
of the hands and the twisting of the body "full" even when you take steps.
Here most people will notice that when they start taking steps, their
movement becomes very unnatural and they have much tension, especially
in the legs. You might feel it very difficult to twist your body while taking
cross-steps, but usually the major reason is tensing, and the muscles working
against each other, because you are not familiar with the movement.
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