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Hi guys,
I have big thighs from weightlifting and to keep the perineum open as Bruce suggests in DVD 1, I have to keep my feet 30cm wide from each other and not only 5cm as shown on the DVDs….what should I do for best practice?
Stand wide to avoid my thighs touching and closing the perineum energy gate or do it shorter to avoid straining knees?
Will this compromise my Chi building ability?
Thanks
It should be as close as you can without your perineum closing.
If you have a problem with your knees it’s probably not anything to do with the distance your legs are apart. Is the issue in the beginning part with your legs parallel or is it once you’ve stepped out?
Hi Cameron, the problem is when I first stand, when my feet are parallel, just before I open to San Ti…I stand with feet parallel as shown on DVD 1 and my thighs touch.
When I open to San Ti, my perineum is quite open…what do you think?
I’m not 100% sure but from what I understand any break in your energetic connection could leave an opening in a combat situation for your opponent to attack your structure. In terms of just chi building I don’t know if it’s such a bad thing to have your perineum close on transition. Maybe someone else could comment on that. Personally I’d worry more about the main position after you step out.
Cameron is there a way to directly ask Bruce about these questions we have?
Most people here don’t have any experience in Hsing-i and didn’t even buy the DVDs…we need to have him do some ‘after-sales’ maintenace in a way…
It would be great, if he could answer them…
Not sure. I’ve never trained/spoken with him.
There are a few people here who know what they’re talking about. I don’t claim to be one of them but I share my experiences anyway, in the hope that people might benefit somehow.
I know Cameron and this is greatly appreciated…I am just saying that it can be better if we had Bruce or some of his instructors answering questions in his forum…
Hi George,
If you have a practice partner around, or even a good friend who isn’t too skeptical about trying this, I recommend this exercise to get a sense of the space inside the pelvis opening up, which will give you a feeling for an open perineum even in the starting stance.
Have them stand behind you, with both of their hands on your hip joints (not the top of the pelvis). They compress your pelvis by pressing their hands together and here is the key moment: as they release their pressure, you can feel an expansion. That expansion, if you follow it 3 or 4 times, will give you a sense of first the bowl of the pelvis opening and then a sense of space from the perineum directly.
As you work with this more, it becomes less about the actual distance between the thighs and more about the way an open perineum acts like the keystone in an arch.
Let me know if that makes sense.
Thanks!
Dan
Yeah, what Danny said.
The point of the whole perineum thing is to build awareness within that area.
Kumar is very detailed in his teaching, but much of what he says won’t mean anything until you’ve trained a while and it starts to happen.
He could talk till he’s blue in the face and it still wouldn’t do anything for you. Practice will do something for you.
Practice will reveal where your legs need to be, where they are strong comfortable, springy and relaxed. Where your pelvis feels more open, less constricted and clenched.
Only you can find that place, asking questions of the teacher over and over is just an exercise in futility.
I know from experience, I was the guy asking him question after question, complaining that it didn’t work and that chi is impossible to feel and “am I doing it right?” over and over and over.
Only by training and working at it did it happen for me. Now in class people ask so many meandering, time wasting questions that it’s really hard to deal with. Kumar does his best, but even he will eventually snap at someone to just go practice and quit talking!!!
Learn to trust your own feeling of inner sensation. The perineum is something he talks a lot about but is something you wont’ feel or be able to work with at first. Accept it and just keep it in mind as you go, as with the rest of the stuff that’s frustrating you. Eventually it will all unfold bit by bit, but all in due time.
Jess O
Thanks Dan this was helpful..
Great! Let us know how it goes….when you get in a good groove with San Ti, it can be a hell of a ride!
Hi Dan
i have another question: what should the movement of the feet toes be?
Should I curl them when i breath in and curl them out when i breath out? Or should i keep them curled in thriughout the breathing process?
Hi George,
I don’t know if I know exactly what the context is for your question. Are you talking about waking up awareness in your feet when you practice? Making the feet stable structurally? Or pulsing the feet? All are valid methods…but as your just getting started with the practice, I would go for stability first and wait until you find a similar feeling in the hands before you start working in the feet a lot.
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Hi Dan…I mean pulsing the toes in when I breath in and doing the opposite when I breath out..does it make sense now?
It is shown in the DVDs but don’t remember exactly where.
Hi Dan…I mean pulsing the toes in when I breath in and doing the opposite when I breath out..does it make sense now?
It is shown in the DVDs but don’t remember exactly where.
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