Chapter 71 Exercises
It was not until Ma Guo that he mastered the Harrier Technique and Du Feng checked it correctly that he began to teach the next technique.
**Internal power is a technique that combines movement and stillness. The movement is the body, and the calmness is the mind. It mainly involves the coordination of movement and breathing and thoughts. If no one teaches these things, just reading and practicing by yourself, it is absolutely easy to make mistakes, because the most important breathing method is not guided, and it is easy to practice problems, such as improper breathing causes stagnation.
After a series of six kinds of exercises were taught and the test was basically met, Du Feng told him the lyrics of his internal skills and skills to memorize them. Each martial arts and internal skills had his lyrics. This lyrics were like a kind of artistic conception transmission and key points of practice for the skill, telling you what this skill means and what kind of practice requirements.
For example, the four-line song of Yunlong Gong: The dragon stands on the sea and the sky is as quiet as clouds, swallows clouds and spits mist and sinks the palms of the sank, grabs clouds and mists and swallows the Yin darkly, and swallows three invisible energy. If you combine the actions you have learned, you can understand the meaning of this song.
Hold your hands to the chest ribs, palms upwards, slowly stretch them, palms downwards, bend forward, knees straight, slowly exhale, then raise your head and straighten your body, and make both hands into fists to your breasts, inhale full air, and instantly hold your breath, swallow three breaths into the lower dantian, and finally turn your fist into the palm and push and exhale.
This is Yunlong Gong.
After teaching these, it was already past eight o'clock in the morning. Du Feng told him to practice more first. This is a compulsory course every day. After practicing, you can go to the gym to do some ligament stretching exercises. At the same time, he told him that he needs to progress slowly and not be rushing to achieve success. After a few days, he will teach him the Hongquan of Qingcheng School.
Ma Guo started this day and got up at three o'clock every morning. He started practicing ** internal skills for more than an hour. Then he went to the top of the mountain to extract energy and breathe. He practiced another hour of ** internal skills for more than five o'clock in the evening, which was arranged completely according to the ancient practice schedule. In the free time in the middle, because he had not learned any martial arts moves, he either went to the basic martial arts practice or went to the library to borrow books to read.
He felt that he had to learn too much and had to practice a lot. As the saying goes, the master brought it into the door and practiced with extraordinary people. This makes sense. A martial arts master can teach you the tricks of practice, but if you don't practice and just know it, it's useless.
Fortunately, he has already understood the basic things through "500 Questions on Practicing Martial Arts". There are many guidance on self-cultivation of martial arts. Many things do not need to be asked about why and how to do them at any time. He himself basically understands what is going on.
Now is the time to lay the foundation. For him, his current foundation is basic exercises in terms of body flexibility, strength, endurance, etc. Because he had studied all the time in fitness before, he still had some understanding of these basic exercises.
In the past few days, he has also contacted some people in the gym and gradually learned that there are still a few who make money to learn martial arts like him. Some are curious, some are big and small, and of course there are also old people, but very few are mainly for health care. They are all wealthy families, and young people only come here to practice for two months during the summer vacation and then go home. This is equivalent to hiring a private tutor.
Because of his ability to see inwardly, after a few days of practice, he quickly gained a preliminary understanding and control of ** internal skills. To put it simply, this internal skills practice is like exercising the internal organs through breathing and movements. The function of thoughts is to guide the qi in the whole body.
The qi here is different from the qi running in the meridians. The qi here is the qi in the whole body, not in the meridians, but the acquired qi. Qi and blood are integrated and mutually transformed and reproduced. Therefore, "qi is invisible blood, and blood is tangible qi." Of course, it is a complementary relationship with the qi in the meridians. Qi is like the oxygen in the blood and the water in the body, everywhere. Through Qi, it nourishes and strengthens the body. When this qi finally ends, it will be partially included in the meridians, increasing your motivation for the meridians.
When looking inward, he could clearly see that when he breathes, the internal organs are like being pounded and stretched by qi. Of course, it is not a brutal tempering, but a gradual tempering. It is like pinching dough, which is practicing the internal organs. The function of qi is to nourish while practicing, and to regulate the qi and blood at the same time so as not to be injured by training.
After practicing, you will feel comfortable all over your body, as if you have massaged your whole body.
A few days later, Du Feng began to teach him Hongquan. Many people may not know much about Hongquan when it comes to Hongquan. They only know that its boxing techniques are strong and open and close. They know some more famous practitioners, Hong Xiguan, Liang Kun, Huang Feihong, etc. As for the founder, they don’t understand it. In fact, the founder of Hongquan is a very famous figure in Taoism, Ge Hong. Dahongquan is also a whip boxing method. It is a boxing technique that combines the inside and the outside. Later, with the evolution of history, new changes were added.
Du Feng taught him the old Hongquan, which is composed of five shapes of dragon, snake, tiger, leopard and crane. There are not many moves. While teaching them, he corrects his movements, explains the characteristics of moves, attacks and practice methods, and explains one shape every day. It takes about a week before he finishes teaching Hongquan.
There is also the Hunyuan stake method. Although it is similar to what I have learned before, there are still profound truths. If Du Feng didn't explain it, he wouldn't understand that there are also differences between live stakes and dead stakes. Standing stakes are not enough to stand, but you also need to stand alive. Dead stakes are completely supported by the muscles of the thighs, while live stakes need to be coordinated with breathing, the use of strength, and the guidance of thoughts to stand well.
Standing in a stance is also for the purpose of the whole body. In other words, stretching and pulling bones. In simple terms, it is to integrate the muscles and bones of the whole body.
There are tricks for walking, sitting and lying down. In the past, others said that martial arts practice was hard, but when they really practiced, they realized that their health was not bad, but mainly mentally. There was too much to pay attention to and exercise, and all of them needed to focus on. If they did not have perseverance, perseverance, and had a bad foundation, they really couldn't practice anything. If they practiced, they were just a fancy way.
I really don’t get into this industry and don’t know the depth of this industry. In the past, I saw people practicing martial arts, but in fact, it was just like that. Those movements were nothing, and they felt like nothing to fight. However, through Du Feng’s explanation, he learned that when practicing boxing, the boxing force was held but not exerted. It was cultivated while practicing, and used strength to practice muscles and bones. Usually, it didn’t seem to be powerful. Only when real combat and fighting, can you exert force and exert force.
Du Feng also emphasized breathing adjustment, which is a very simple metaphor. If an ordinary person punches a few times quickly, he will feel panting, and his strength will not keep up. Therefore, here he emphasizes breathing and internal strength. When practicing martial arts, you must keep your breathing smoothly and you cannot pant. You must pay attention to the unified coordination of hands, eyes, body movements, steps, mental strength, and skills. Only in this way can you make rapid progress.
At this point, Ma Guo only practiced one more thing every day, Hongquan. When he first started practicing boxing, he did not practice quickly. Instead, he carefully paid attention to each move and every momentum, experienced the use of force, and understood where the force was emitted after each move was released. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!