During the National Day, I participated in the first face-to-face tutoring held by Mr. Ah Fu in Shanghai. Mr. Ah Fu's careful guidance, mutual learning and exchanges between classmates and intensive training for a few days gave me a new understanding and experience of the internal skills of traditional martial arts. It felt like it was really worth the trip and benefited a lot.
The deepest feeling and the greatest gain are:
1. I finally found a way to get started and improved in Kung Fu, and found the key to open the door of Kung Fu.
2. Mistakes can be known, mistakes will be corrected, timely correction and improvement, and timely correction and improvement will not be wasted due to mistakes.
3, the accumulation of quantity is very important, there is no quantitative change, there is no qualitative change.
First, I found a way to get started and mentioned in Kung Fu.
I think every traditional kung fu lover has a martial arts dream in his heart, dreaming of becoming a kung fu master through his own efforts.
I have been practicing Tai Chi for many years, worshiping masters, learning theories, learning routines, and doing hard work. It is to hope that I can grasp the true meaning of taijiquan and grasp the initiative in the pushing hand. But the distance between dreams and reality is too large, so that the dream of kung fu has always stayed in the brain. But how do you get kung fu on your body?
I was fortunate to see Mr. Ah Fu's article on the Internet, and later I saw a lot of teaching videos of teachers and students pushing hands on the public account, and I felt that this was what I wanted. So with the mentality of trying it out, I reported to the Neijiaquan network tutoring set up by Mr. Ah Fu in April this year.
So I began to watch the video of Teacher Afu for practice, just watched the first video when I felt that the action was very simple, very easy, but after practicing to know, to be able to follow the action points taught by the teacher, it is not as easy as imagined. After several months of repeated practice of single-style movements, special attention was paid to the essentials of the crotch of the live step pile going down the arc. When I played the tai chi routine that I had practiced before, I felt that my legs could make it stronger, and the reaction of my hands and feet was more obvious than before.
There seems to be nothing special about the living step pile, which "crotch down the arc", seemingly a simple action, but step on the mind, carefully understand the essentials, practice repeatedly, and slowly feel that there are many details to experience and understand. For example, the sixteen-character secret of the body method, the change of virtual reality, the change of center of gravity, etc., are all reflected in the action of "crotch going down the arc". In this way, the essentials such as the Gong Fa and the Body Method can be specifically reflected into one action after another.
And these decomposed movements can be learned by everyone, and they can be practiced according to the rules. Isn't this the right and effective training method we're looking for?
Second, mistakes can be known, mistakes will be corrected, get timely correction and improvement, and will not waste time because of mistakes.
Modern online video teaching and targeted tutoring by teachers have indeed provided great convenience for us to learn and shortened the distance between us and teachers. However, online video teaching is still different from face-to-face teaching, especially after this eleven-face teaching, I deeply realize that face-to-face teaching is an indispensable part of kung fu improvement.
Because the kung fu upper body is to understand the body, online video teaching, the teacher corrects the movements, the brain understands, but the body does not feel, not sure whether to do it right.
During this face-to-face teaching, after the teacher explains the essentials and principles, he will usually verify it by pushing the hand to let the students understand and feel, so that everyone's body understands the problem of their own movements, and the contrast between right and wrong is very clear. This is really important, and the problem of finding your own movements in a timely and effective manner lies in which joint and which part of the body. For example, how the pusher completes the change of center of gravity without being discovered by the opponent. According to each person's different situation, Teacher Afu repeatedly corrected and practiced some single-style movements in a targeted manner, found out the deficiencies and errors, and carried out intensive training, so as to overcome one difficulty after another, and the kung fu was unconsciously improved.
The teacher asks the students to use the learned techniques to communicate with each other, try and feed each other. It's also a great way to discover your own problems. Teacher Ah Fu then repeatedly practiced and explained individual movements for these questions, so that you could practice clearly.
Through such face-to-face teaching, I have a correct understanding of my own kung fu, and clarify the practice method and the direction of future efforts.
Third, understand the importance of the accumulation of quantity.
From brain understanding to physical understanding, forming muscle memory and conditioned reflexes, there are only thousands of repetitions of practice, there is no shortcut.
From quantitative change to qualitative change, only with a certain amount of accumulation, kung fu can have a qualitative leap.
In the face-to-face teaching, I found that when I practiced a single movement, I felt good about myself and thought that I should be OK, but once I got my hands together, my body did not listen to my own commands. In fact, the key to the problem is not enough skill. Just like building a house, the house is built quite beautifully, but the reinforced concrete inside is not up to standard, the firmness is not good, and it cannot withstand the wind and waves. The only way is to practice practice and practice until muscle memory, conditioned reflexes are formed.
We are fortunate that Mr. Ah Fu summed up and refined his decades of practice experience and experience, and established a reliable learning system for introductory and improved Neijiaquan. This sets us up a staircase to the door of the traditional martial art neijiaquan.
I felt a lot in the face-to-face teaching for a few days, and I benefited a lot, but I also found the importance of learning and training in my daily life. In particular, This set of instructional videos by Mr. Ah Fu is very effective for beginners and for many years of practitioners. The teacher divides a lot of kung fu into many individual exercises, which can be trained and broken through one by one, according to the video practice, the method is also very simple, not empty, not mysterious, real. All we need is to accumulate thousands of exercises over time, accumulate quantities, and achieve qualitative leaps.
It is our blessing to meet such a master. Finally, I would like to encourage the boxers, let us cherish this precious wealth and opportunity, and take action, we will be able to harvest full!
Kung Fu Xiaobai wrote in Beijing on November 12, 2021