Lighting Tai Chi
Lightning Tai Chi is the cultured lifestyle of going to the extreme sides of yin and yang in an instant! A devotee of this elite art need say nothing, carry nothing, nor wear any special garb to stand out from the ordinary. It will be evident in every action they make.
Kung Fu Key or Conditioning is King. Only by combining the internal with the external that you can achieve your full potential. By combining the circular with the linear you have the gathered gravity of a spiraling galaxy.
Million Repetition Mastery is the practice of doing a movement 1000 times a day for 1000 days. That is how you become heavily wired and highly charged to be able to do it without even thinking about it. Spontaneous with the speed and jolting power of lightning.
Possessed with perfect proficiency, a machine gun reaction gives an opponent no chance against you. In qigong training, do not hold back or restrain yourself in any way. Instead, open fully to the opulent energy of the universe… become pure energy.
Wu-wei is to lose all thought of difference, conflict, and limitation. It is the true freedom of release from tension. To know it is to be enlightened, to live it is to be liberated. Be one with the Great Ultimate and you will be in invincible!
Lesson #1
The Opening: Step 1
Stand relaxed, feet pointing forward and shoulder width apart. Knees are bent. (If you are ever fighting someone who locks their knee, one swift kick there ends the fight immediately.)
Raise arms up and out way in front of you as if a string was pulling on them from above and continue raising them so they come in and down right in front of you making a complete circle. Stay relaxed all the way through the movement with a posture as if a string was pulling on the back of your skull, bringing your head forward and up while another string attached to the front of your pelvis is also pulling up.
Breathe in as you raise your arms out. Breathe out as you lower your arms in. Keep your spine supple so that energy flows up it when you raise your arms. Your spine moves like you are raising a whip.
The second half of the cycle is where you crack the whip down. Let the energy follow down, but at the same time that the energy is going down your spine, it is also moving up your spine. Your spine stretches going up and coming down. Your back rounds and widens. Feel as though the whip wielder has a hold of the bottom of your spine.
The visualization is a cobra opening its hood as it rises to heaven. Then the cobra dives down in a strike, making love to the earth below. It rounds back up to come down on earth again. Take it way down in a deep dark hole. Then bring the energy of the earth up with you to throw to the sky then spread a net to pull even more energy back down in a joyful playful double pumping exchange of flowing force. Let yourself go.
STEP 2
Continue the circular movement of Step 1. Speed your left hand up while going up and move it to the center, then speed the right hand up faster, moving it to the center so that the back side of it slaps the palm of the left with a dragon-tail strike. Then turn the left hand so the knife-edge between the middle finger and wrist strikes your right hand, which presses the tips of its fingers together in a crane’s-beak finger strike to the striking left hand. Bring hands back and down. Switch hands on the way back up.
STEP 3
Go back to the circular movement of STEP 1: at the perigee or lower part of the movement, interlock your fingers and tug-pull your hands against each other on the way up. Then push them into each other on the way down.
Picture that your hands are going around a Yin-Yang Symbol. The symbol is inside your arms when they are out. The symbol is outside when your hands are in close to your body. Visualize that you are making the symbol spin so that the black and white colors make a strobe effect, shooting out flashes of lightning all around it. The faster you spin it, the brighter it becomes, so that it eventually becomes like the sun.
STEP 4
Continuing the circular movement of STEP 2, sink your heels into the ground as you come down and bend your knees and waist into a squat. Clutch the ground with your toes as you come up again. You are swaying energy back and forth and up and down, involving your whole body, including pumping the legs. Strengthening the legs keeps you young because the legs are your root and also where energy first gets sluggish. Weak legs are the start of aging and this exercise reverses the process.
The Yin-Yang Symbol, which has now become like the radiating sun, is visualized so that your spine is the electric wave that goes through the center of it.
Contrary to common belief, you do not have three Tan-Teins or power centers; you have one, and that is the spine. The spine is what connects you and your whole body together as a single unit. You move in a chain of tension and relaxation that feeds and renews itself like nuclear fusion. The force moves stimulatingly through your body, always circulating, and is thus an enlivening enduring power.
The heart in harmony with yin and yang beats ceaselessly, tirelessly — relaxing and tensing, receiving and giving, opening and closing, filling and emptying, expanding and contracting, consuming and expelling, breathing-in and breathing-out.
STEP 5
Now while going up, bend your right wrist back with your left hand so that your right hand is pushing up with right palm up & left palm down, moving up to your right side. At the top or apex, turn the bend the other way so your right hand bends the left wrist back and pushes down with right palm down & left palm up, and moving down to your left side. Notice how your body undulates to the right going up and to the left going down in a snake like movement.
STEP 6
Do the same as in STEP 5, only while on the way down, go straight down instead of crossing to the other side. So now when you go up, you’ll be crossing to the left, then going straight down and back up to the right. Notice how your arms move like a wave with crests that crash to both your right, then your left side.
STEP 7
Now while going up, bend your left wrist back with your right hand so that your left hand is pushing up with left palm up & right palm down, moving up to your left side. At the apex, turn the bend the other way so your left hand bends the right wrist back and pushes down with left palm down & right palm up and moving down to your right side. Notice how your body undulates to the left going up and to the right going down in a snake like movement.
LESSON 2 - The Single Whip:
STEP 1
A strike is coming at you, or someone has a hold of your shoulder. You hook their arm with one hand and strike with the other. It matters not if you are blocking inside or outside. It works either way.
Here we are going to do double duty, doing both with a single hand. It strikes the attacking arm, then whips around to the face. Roll your shoulder back and let the whole arm follow, then roll your shoulder forward like it is going to crack the end of a whip. That whip is your arm and the end of it is your hand. It should come natural to you like a kid throwing a stone to skip across the water.
In this case it is a multi-tailed barbed whip, so at the end you grab and pull back as if ripping off flesh. The correct way to practice this movement is to gyrate your whole body, using power and speed to hear the air go ’swoosh’ when you lash.
STEP 2
Training the Penetrating-Three-Prong-Poison-Claw. Grab the edge of a door. Thumb on one side, pinky and ring finger together on the other side. Throw your weight away from the door while keeping the grip. Then pull back with the grip so weight goes forward toward the door, pushing into it with your index and middle finger together. Feel the springing wave of the back and forth action, like playing with a slinky.
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