Chi is the energy each part of the body uses to coordinate its activities with the rest of the body. It works on a finer level than the nervous and muscle system, even down to the individual cells. This is why the body, with its trillions of cells can function in a coordinated way. This communication takes place on a very high level of speed.
In training such as Tai-chi-Chuan you learn to enhance that communication and to be aware of its mechanics. Then you allow your own attention to be affected by it so that your ability to be more coordinated and faster is trained by your own body's system of chi. The power that results from this fine and fast ability to use the mechanics of the body is sometimes referred to as "chi" but it is more accurate to say that the power is the result of awareness of and training in chi-gung (the training of chi). If you can reorganize your alignment more often than your opponent, you can weave in and out of his strikes to deliver your own.
Many types of chi-gung such as "animal exercises" (known as "zookinesis") also include complex exercises of coordination and exercises to increase flexibility so you can become familiar with moving each muscle and joint independently.
Chi-gung training results in each part of the body becoming more fully conscious. When you spar, it is your body itself that is making the decisions on a completely different level than your thinking mind.
And so chi training is used to make your movements and your mechanics more exact, more responsive and quicker and that is why it is helpful in the martial arts.
Breathe in and breathe out.
Chi is a life force that's all around and through every living creature - there's lines throughout the body so that chi can spread and flow which enables it to energize your muscles just like...just like oxygen...who knew.
You can place the letters t/a/i before chi which equals tai chi! You need to understand that you really can't use something that doesn't exist.
Chi is air. If chi did not exist, how are we living?
by training under a good instructor.
tai chi is first and foremost a martial art, people that claim otherwise know very little about martial arts
chi is the life force of one's self. using chi you have to focus and gather your thought it a process through meditation.
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Qigo...
I recommend you buy one of Dr. yang's lectures about it. It should explain things very well.
Breathing techniques have various uses. Such as for a woman giving birth or a sniper ending someone's life at 2 kilometers. In Chinese martial arts, they developed breathing techniques for all kinds of things.
It is a energy that is scentifically proven to not exist. People who beielve have a acicent unproven theory as their evidence. Real martial artist have years of scientific evidence and advanced instruments to prove it does not...
any info will be great help. Thanks
