Comments on: The best Qigong I’ve ever experienced http://chessman71.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/the-best-qigong-ive-ever-experienced/ Just another Wordpress.com weblog Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:08:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Formosa Neijia - Exploring Taiwan’s Internal Martial Arts » Don Quixote and being “pissed” http://chessman71.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/the-best-qigong-ive-ever-experienced/#comment-612 Formosa Neijia - Exploring Taiwan’s Internal Martial Arts » Don Quixote and being “pissed” Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:09:46 +0000 https://chessman71.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/the-best-qigong-ive-ever-experienced/#comment-612 [...] You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Leave aReply [...] [...] You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Leave aReply [...]

]]> By: chessman71 http://chessman71.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/the-best-qigong-ive-ever-experienced/#comment-127 chessman71 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:52:09 +0000 https://chessman71.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/the-best-qigong-ive-ever-experienced/#comment-127 Sorry to come across that way. :) I'm just fed up with many things recently. I've been doing CMA for a long time and I'm getting a bit tired of what i see as weaknesses of these styles. They are all good, but I think we need a little truth here. Things like being told I need to redefine my definition of health to make it suitable to account for the 300 pound men that the IMA produces is unaccpetable to me. No one on earth outside of IMA would agree to that definition of health. But the health thing isn't the only thing I'm upset about lately. Thanks for having the guts to just say that, though. I didn't actually think that I was angry, but i guess you're right. Off to practice! Sorry to come across that way. :)

I’m just fed up with many things recently. I’ve been doing CMA for a long time and I’m getting a bit tired of what i see as weaknesses of these styles. They are all good, but I think we need a little truth here. Things like being told I need to redefine my definition of health to make it suitable to account for the 300 pound men that the IMA produces is unaccpetable to me. No one on earth outside of IMA would agree to that definition of health. But the health thing isn’t the only thing I’m upset about lately.

Thanks for having the guts to just say that, though. I didn’t actually think that I was angry, but i guess you’re right. Off to practice!

]]> By: lifegivingsword http://chessman71.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/the-best-qigong-ive-ever-experienced/#comment-124 lifegivingsword Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:47:41 +0000 https://chessman71.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/the-best-qigong-ive-ever-experienced/#comment-124 dude. youre pretty pissed off lately. :D dude. youre pretty pissed off lately. :D

]]> By: chessman71 http://chessman71.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/the-best-qigong-ive-ever-experienced/#comment-121 chessman71 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:27:35 +0000 https://chessman71.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/the-best-qigong-ive-ever-experienced/#comment-121 Something I didn't add about my swimming coach was that she was involved in training the University of Florida swim team and had trained Olympic level athletes in the past. When someone pushed her about correcting our stroke, she commented that we weren't going to be Olympic athletes so why not just enjoy swimming instead of creating pressure for ourselves. That sort of shut us up. :) Something I didn’t add about my swimming coach was that she was involved in training the University of Florida swim team and had trained Olympic level athletes in the past. When someone pushed her about correcting our stroke, she commented that we weren’t going to be Olympic athletes so why not just enjoy swimming instead of creating pressure for ourselves. That sort of shut us up. :)

]]> By: Tom http://chessman71.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/the-best-qigong-ive-ever-experienced/#comment-118 Tom Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:54:23 +0000 https://chessman71.wordpress.com/2006/06/19/the-best-qigong-ive-ever-experienced/#comment-118 Swimming is fantastic exercise . . . for cardiovascular health, for building flexibility and torso strength with low-impact exercise (at 110 kg., my knees would rather swim a mile than run a mile, though I do both) . . . and for training the importance of breath and a relaxed mental focus. Very interesting approach by your coach . . . that the pool would teach you everything you need to know. Very atypical, but true in a fundamental sense. You need to figure out the most efficient stroke in order to be able to last without wearing out. Very "Mr. Miyagi" . . . very Russian Systema too (had to get that comment in there). Oh hell . . . why not . . . very Zheng Manqing taiji as well (the solo form teaches us . . . LOL). Swimming is fantastic exercise . . . for cardiovascular health, for building flexibility and torso strength with low-impact exercise (at 110 kg., my knees would rather swim a mile than run a mile, though I do both) . . . and for training the importance of breath and a relaxed mental focus.

Very interesting approach by your coach . . . that the pool would teach you everything you need to know. Very atypical, but true in a fundamental sense. You need to figure out the most efficient stroke in order to be able to last without wearing out. Very “Mr. Miyagi” . . . very Russian Systema too (had to get that comment in there). Oh hell . . . why not . . . very Zheng Manqing taiji as well (the solo form teaches us . . . LOL).

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