【Description】
Energy Bagua Aerobics can enhance physical fitness, vitality, joint mobility, coordination, and flexibility. This simple workout exercises your internal organs, promoting metabolism, digestion and excretion, detoxifying your body and helping you lose weight. Moreover, it has the unexpected functions of bodybuilding and self-defense.
Despite having multiple functions, each movement of Energy Bagua Aerobics is simple. However, every simple action has its key standardized components. Are your actions up to the standard? Do you know the details and essentials of each key movement?
In this video, Grandmaster JinBodhi provides guidance on the essential movements and gives detailed explanations and answers on the principles behind moves such as “Kick and Punch,” “Archery Exercise,” “Knee Strike,” “Move the Mountains Into the Sea,” and “Push Mountain Palms.” He also corrects common mistakes.
Learning through this video, you will master the essentials of Energy Bagua Aerobics and thereby reap the greatest possible rewards. You will come to a deeper understanding of the powerful principles behind this fun and fruitful workout.
【You will learn】
- The functions of Energy Bagua Aerobics
- Precautions for practicing Energy Bagua Aerobics
- Energy Bagua Aerobics through the fine points of each of the movements
- Standardized movements through watching Master correct the demonstrator’s mistakes
【Content】
Grandmaster JinBodhi’s Energy Bagua Aerobics
Healthy Weight Loss
Self-Defense Skills
Boost Your Vitality
Grandmaster JinBodhi’s Energy Bagua Aerobics Increase Energy
Grandmaster JinBodhi’s Energy Bagua Aerobics Teaching Guide
Hello, everyone, today I am introducing you to Energy Bagua Aerobics. It originates from the martial arts I practiced as a child, with elements of meditation and Energy Bagua as well. I selected some easy-to-learn movements that can hopefully be helpful to everyone’s health.
Most importantly, it increases your fitness, stamina and vital energy. It improves your joint flexibility and the overall flexibility and agility of your body. It might even prevent dementia and sluggish movements, issues related to aging. It can also help exercise the major organs, promote digestion, increase metabolism, and promote excretion. It can definitely help with weight loss. From a fitness perspective, it can also increase muscle mass and tone and shape the body, improving the overall attractiveness of our physique.
Practicing this set of movements together with Energy Bagua can quickly return us to prime condition. The mind and the limbs are able to work well together. Your legs can keep up with your thoughts and act as the mind directs. This is the most important thing. I recommend practicing these methods together, so that while we may grow old in years, we will not age in body. Even when we are old, we are still able to move around freely. We can take care of ourselves and not require other people’s assistance. This is a truly healthy, happy and long life.
Reminders
Select a suitable environment for your practice. Don’t choose somewhere too small as you might kick the tables, chairs or walls. It needs to be relatively spacious. The clothing for practice is usually loose, soft and breathable. Wear sports shoes with thin soles; thick soles are not safe. This set of exercises is not suited for when you are very hungry or when you have just eaten. Usually, we can practice at least 40 minutes after a meal. That is OK.
You can practice one to 3 times every day. If you are relatively young, say, under 40, you can practice 10 times if you want. There is no harm in doing so. If you are older, it is fine to do it one to 3 or 4 times a day. That is fine. Everyone’s fitness and body conditions are unique. You need to cultivate a habit of practicing every day. The effects will be good even if you just practice once a day.
Punch and Kick
Let us explain “Punch and Kick”. OK, please demonstrate.
There are several key points to this move. In the beginning, the “fist-eye” faces up. The fist-eye is the circle formed by the thumb and index finger whenever you make a fist. Look, this part right here is the fist-eye. The thumb is on the outside. Some people put their thumb inside. That is wrong. The thumb is on the outside with the fist-eye facing up. When you punch, after punching, the fist-eye is now facing the side. When you draw it back, the fist-eye faces up again. Hold it in front of your chest.
(Before you punch, your fist-eyes face up, your thumbs are on the outside. After punching, place fist-eye toward the side.)
Guard your chest well and you will be able to defend yourself, guard against attacks, you can block up or down. Boxing is like this as well. Your fists are always guarding your face. This is the requirement when punching. The fist-eye faces up, punch, twist when punching. The fist-eye faces up again and is drawn back. Your fist rotates slightly when you punch. Draw your fists back to the front of your chest each time. This way, you can protect yourself.
Also, the force of the punch should come from your shoulder and upper back. The power of the punch comes from the back, then punch out. You should at least bear this concept in mind. It makes the results stronger.
(Punch and Kick: Before punching, the fist-eye faces up, the thumb is on the outside of the fist. After punching, the fist-eye faces the side.)
Now we move on to the kicking part of this move. Your kick is pretty good, it looks correct. A reminder for this move: Don’t kick too high. The height I recommend is around 1 to 1.3 meters. That way, even if you have never learned dance or done stretching before, you can still do this move, it won’t be too painful. If you kick really high, past 1.3 meters or even higher than that, the good thing is you might become a martial arts master. The bad things are your hamstring might ache and your kicking speed will decrease.
The shorter the distance, the faster the speed. Of course, we don’t have a device right now to test your kicking speed, but we know this is true. For example, if I kick a bad guy in his calf, the speed will be faster by 0.1 second; if I kicked his stomach, the time needed will increase by 0.1 second. The time you use will be longer.
In Chinese martial arts, there is a move called the “Skirt Kick”. Just like the name suggests, it refers to the skirts that girls wear. In Ancient China, people wore long robes, right? The scholars wore robes too. My robe hasn’t moved yet, but I have already kicked. So, this kick can’t be too high, it should aim for the lower part of the leg.
The distance between my legs and the other person’s legs is very short. If I want to kick his chest, shoulders or head, no matter how fast I am, it will be much slower. So, the lower the kick, the faster the speed; our self-defense effect will be better. So, I suggest kicking lower, and no higher than 1.3 meters.
Demonstrate again. Very good. When we practice at this speed, it is already pretty standard, not bad.
(Q: Generally, we use our arm’s strength to punch. Just now, Master said we need to use our back to exert strength. May I ask why?)
When we punch, I am not simply putting my fist out. First of all, this movement we’re practicing is a fitness movement and a full-body exercise. If you simply use the power of one arm, the force is relatively minor. For example, my punch exerts a force of 5 kilos. If I use the strength of my body plus the swing and speed of the movement, I can easily increase the strength by 2 times or more. Like those boxers, they use the power of their entire body to punch; in fact, that overall power far surpasses the strength of their arms. That is how they win the world championship and defeat their opponent. So moving the entire body is especially important, as it will strengthen the energy.
(Q: Master, is this move helpful for the female figure?)
From the perspective of boxing, I think there are some older ladies who seem to gain fat on their arms. These arms are called “butterfly sleeves” in the beauty industry. “Butterfly sleeves” sound pretty good, but once they get bigger, many ladies don’t like it. The fat on the arms looks a little droopy. It will lessen the physical beauty overall. So, when you practice this punching move often, the muscle on the arms will naturally tighten up and look beautiful. This will be true for your arms, back and chest, as these muscles will be exercised and become more toned.
Regarding “Punch and Kick”, what are the benefits it can bring to our physical fitness?
First, it trains your reactive speed, making your legs flexible and easy to use. When a person gets older, aging shows first on the legs. You will feel it especially in the legs. Your heart has reached the vegetable market, but your feet are still at home. Your feet will be slow to get you up and move; your steps cannot catch up with your brain.
Nowadays, you usually use your brain and do more talking than physical labor. As a result, we spend less time exercising. The good things are you sweat less and exert less effort. The bad thing is a lack of exercise, causing your limbs to be less flexible.
So when you look at dancing and punching, they all focus on these 5 elements: hands, eyes, body, method and steps. So when we kick, we first exercise the agility of our legs as well as their coordination with our brain. So after regular exercise, our lower limbs, waist, hips and legs will become toned and beautiful!
Archery Exercise
Come to help me demonstrate. Let me explain some key points of this “Archery Exercise”.
OK, try to draw the bow. When drawing the bow, first of all, the front arm, it is not flat. Look at my hand, it is at the same level. So generally speaking, there is an upward slope of about 15-20 degrees. Also, the back hand should use a little force. You need to imagine that you are really pulling a bow and have a feeling of strength. If you don’t use force, the exercise won’t be effective. This is also called the fist-eye and it is still facing up.
In terms of where I am facing, I don’t face the raised arm directly; my eyes are looking in this direction of the hand. Just like when we really shoot an arrow, our eyes need to work together with the arrow to aim at the target. When aiming, it is difficult for us to aim by using both eyes. We look sideways; aiming with just one eye is more accurate. So, my face doesn’t need to be directly facing the front. For example, when I raise my right hand, I usually aim with my right eye. For this movement, relax your shoulders. Although the arm is exerting force, and it feels like pulling a real bow, the shoulders should be relaxed.
Yes, look at the bow-drawing movement. Very good.
(Archery Exercise: When drawing the bow, tilt your front arm 15-20 degrees upward. When aiming, align the raised arm with the side of your face.)
This archery exercise can actually open up the chest muscles and meridians, as well as effectively exercise the entire chest, shoulders, arms, hands and legs. When we are pulling on the bow hard, our whole body is working hard, right? Yes, so our upper and lower body have reached the highest state of coordination.
Doing this movement also helps us learn to find a sense of purity and calmness from movement. As you are pulling, think about drawing your bow slowly and even aiming for prey that is running. Your body, movements, eyes and thoughts are all in unison, moving together. Yes, so it is overall movement, exercise and coordination; it embodies high-level coordination of our hands, eyes, body, routine and steps.
Now let me introduce how your legs move when you pull the bow. OK, do it. Alright. You can relax your upper body when moving your legs. When doing this bow-pulling action, now you see her leg, the back leg is relatively curved in this posture, and the front leg is in between being straight and slightly bent. This is what we currently recommend because we don’t really have a bow in our hands.
When I was experimenting, if I pulled a very heavy bow that was difficult to draw, my front legs were almost completely straight. I had to use the resistance from the ground to support me in pulling the bow. The movement should be unified inside and out. The foot in front of me exerted much strength to support me in pulling. If you pulled a real bow just now, you would have this feeling. The leg behind is bent.
(Q: When pulling the bow, one of our movements is to turn the waist.) Right, turn. (Why is there such a movement?)
When we shoot arrows, we are facing bad guys, or a beast if in ancient times. If the target moves and runs, my aim has to follow the target. Yes, my body isn’t moving, but my waist is turning and following it. Yes, we hope to imitate this action. I have found that this movement of imitating the tracking of animals using bow and arrow is actually a very good waist exercise for middle-aged and elderly people.
Many people nowadays do less exercise but eat better, so they are prone to gaining fat on the body, especially on the belly. This is actually unhealthy; you don’t get enough exercise. Men are afraid of having a big belly. Women are also afraid of gaining fat on the waist. So, the amount of fat on your waist also determines your basic health and fitness condition.
Of course, this action is not such an intense exercise on the waist. But I want to give our middle-aged and elderly friends more spinal exercises that are relatively safe.
Knee Strike
The “Knee Strike” is a coordinated action of the upper and lower body. It is based on self-defense techniques in martial arts. When the enemy attacks you, strike them with this move, and you may be able to get away. It is an instant explosion of force from the coordination of the upper and lower body. The hands grasp above, the leg strikes below. At this time, the higher the knee strikes, the better. The force needs to be strong.
So when doing this exercise, we also have to sink qi down to our dantian so that our movements can be powerful. The dantian region is our lower abdomen, which happens to be the central part of our body. That way, the energies from our upper and lower body can effectively work together.
This action naturally exercises our arms. It is about gripping with force using our arms and hands. Your upper arm and the side of your back exert force together. With the addition of striking from the knee, your waist, hip and leg all move together. This is the best coordination exercise for all your limbs.
In terms of physical appearance, the joints of your upper and lower limbs will be well exercised. This movement will definitely play a role in exercising our internal organs, promoting digestion, excretion and metabolism, and even benefiting reproductive organs.
(Q: Master, when doing the Knee Strike, do we exert force mainly from our leg?)
Because your whole body moves together for this set of movements, the source of energy is in our lower dantian, which is our abdomen area. We exert force from here. Upon hearing what I said, people who haven’t practiced before will feel even more confused about how to exert force. That is OK, you just have this kind of idea in mind and know that I have explained it this way. You can just follow what I am doing. When you become familiar with it, you will understand this feeling.
When using the Knee Strike for self-defense, we firstly use it to escape. If a person stronger than you grabs you and even has a weapon in hand, it would be difficult for you to escape, and it would be dangerous. At this time, if we have a chance, we have to make the other person feel pain so we can have a chance to escape.
This action is used when you are close to the bad guy. You can grab their hair or clothing on the shoulders and tear it down, while quickly lifting up your leg to strike their chest or face to get the result. But when you encounter a very powerful opponent, this might be useless. But overall, when encountering danger, this is one more trick to enable escape.
Moreover, in the application of martial arts, when the opponent’s leg kicks toward my crotch or abdomen, I lift my leg quickly to block the opponent’s kick and protect myself. Be it left leg or right leg, it is all to do this protecting move. So, this action has 2 functions: One is attack and the other is defense.
When this action is used, the most important thing is to coordinate the power from the upper and lower body. If there is no grasping and pulling-down motion from the hands, the impact of the Knee Strike is almost nonexistent. Therefore, it has to be used and practiced more before this action can produce its potential power.
Move the Mountain Into the Sea
Let me explain “Move the Mountain Into the Sea Palms”. It is important that this action gives us a very good workout. Here are my requirements for this move. The spine needs to be relatively upright from the front and side. This can help you do this action correctly.
When pushing outward, your actions, qi, energy and sound explode, all in sync. The palms pushing outward should also face outward to the sides. But your arms should not be pushed completely straight. Yes, they can be slightly curved, don’t push them completely straight. It is better this way. Also, exert force from your dantian. You will know what it feels like when you do it again. Very good.
Push Mountain Palms
You did very well. Let me explain the essentials of “Push Mountain Palms”. I still use force from the dantian, which is my lower abdomen, to push energy throughout my body. It is also a burst of qi, power, action, sound and thought, all in sync. When the “hung” and “ha” sounds come out, the energy will also burst out.
(Q: Master, why do we make the “hung” and “ha” sounds when pushing the palms? What benefits does it bring to our body?)
This action can automatically correct cervical scoliosis, kyphosis and other spinal issues. So as long as we follow the requirements and instructions for this move, our spine will be quickly corrected using a healthy method.
People in Ancient China believed that our human body has an energy channel: It starts from the top of the head, also called baihui, all the way through the front of the body to the huiyin area, then through the back of the spine, but not the complete spine, going back up to the top part of the body. This energy channel was called microcosmic orbit in Ancient China. Microcosmic orbit means that it seems to go around the sky in a orbit. It is a saying that combines the human body with Heaven.
Normally, the front part of this channel is called renmai, and the rear part is called dumai. Once one of your meridians is blocked at a certain point, you will get related diseases. I often see people with blockages in the back of their dumai and dazhui regions. There is a dazhui point here; when we slightly lower our heads, there is a bulging bone here called the dazhui point. Once the energy is blocked in this area, one problem is that you will have incurable neck pain, and another is likely to cause cerebral hypoxia because the energy can’t have transferred smoothly. It can also easily cause palpitations and heart disease.
It is more troublesome if the blockage occurs in the front. A blockage in any point of the renmai will cause related diseases. Any disease can cause pain. So when we are doing this exercise, I also hope to open up everyone’s renmai and dumai. In Chinese martial arts, people believe that if your renmai and dumai are cleared of blockages, you will definitely be healthy and long-living. That is the idea. If any point of these meridians is blocked, you will definitely be unhealthy. That is for certain.
The most important point of this move is the “hung” and “ha” sounds, which can quickly open up our renmai and dumai. So, through this action, I hope to make everyone healthier and live longer. I also hope that you can do it as correctly as possible.
(Q: Master, what are the benefits of practicing the force from our dantian?)
It will make you full of energy. Our ancestors believed that the energy of the human body, the part born by parents is called innate energy. Energy obtained through activities such as exercising, eating and breathing is called acquired energy. Exercising this dantian qi is a way of replenishing energy. When our energy is sufficient, we become healthier.
If your voice sounds good, usually it is because of your dantian qi. Foreigners will describe it as having power. People with power will have a good voice. When we listen carefully to some singers or great figures, their speaking and singing voices are actually full of energy. Right?
Especially if you listen to some very famous singers. For the same song, if an ordinary singer sings it, you would think, “Well, it is OK.” When you hear a famous singer sing it, you will be moved to tears and feel excited, right? It is because his voice is full of energy, and you are in awe. That is why you are moved to tears. Singers like these have robust energy. One’s energy can affect the voice.
If you have enough energy, you are healthy and high in both IQ and EQ. The energy will support your heart well, keeping your heartbeat regular and supplying sufficient blood to the brain. You will become very intelligent. Some scientists and politicians are very intelligent because they have sufficient qi. People become pretty with sufficient energy. Because you are full of energy, your skin will look hydrated and attractive, and your eyes will be bright.
Let me ask you: Which animal’s eyes are brighter, a sheep’s or a tiger’s? (Tiger.) That is for sure. Tigers eat sheep. If you compare these animals, the sheep will not be able to walk when they see a tiger because the energy difference is too great. Sufficient energy brings unlimited benefits. With sufficient energy, you will win in any area.
In terms of health and physical fitness, when you have enough energy, your movements will become very effective. For example, if a lady of the same weight as you, her punch is 10 kilograms, you may strike 20 kilograms with one punch if your dantian qi is greater, which is much stronger than her punch.
So, for many ancient philosophers and health-cultivators, to live a long and healthy life, one of the exercises they did was to cultivate energy and qi. The Ancient Chinese called this energy in the human body “qi”. Qi does not refer to our breath. It is an abstract concept representing life’s energy. People believe that only by obtaining qi can one live longer and healthier. The dantian qi we use today also refers to this meaning.
Grandmaster JinBodhi’s Energy Bagua Aerobics Tutorial:
Correcting Mistakes
(Which movements are wrong? Let’s guess.)
Her movement is incorrect. Firstly, when punching, don’t completely straighten and tense up your arms.
(When punching, don’t completely straighten and tense up your arms.)
Secondly, before and after the punch, hold your hands in your upper-chest area.
(Hands were not placed at the chest before and after the punch.)
Your chest is a pretty big area; if you put your hands a little bit higher, it can help to protect the body and your head. So before and after the punch, hold your hands in the upper-chest area.
As for kicking, after retracting your leg, if you look from the front, the heel of your left foot, which is your retracted foot, has deviated to the outside of your right foot. This is actually wrong. It affects your balance and stability. Your left leg should move back a bit like this so you can stand more steadily, and it is safer. So after kicking, don’t retract your foot to the outside of the other foot, unless you have to. Please pay attention to this.
Try it again and do it properly. OK, that is right.
(What’s wrong with the movements?)
OK, let me correct it. First of all, you shouldn’t hold your fist like this. Look, she is holding the thumb in the palm of her hand. The disadvantage of doing this is that when you attack the enemy, your thumb will be dislocated or broken when you exert force. So the thumbs have to be on the outside. The fist-eye faces up. Rotate your fist a bit when punching out and then retract it like this.
(The fist-eye faces up. Place your thumbs outside before punching.)
Also, your kick was too high.
(Don’t kick too high.)
You may have kicked 1.6 meters just then. Your kick shouldn’t be higher than 1.3 meters. It looks good to kick high, but that is not our recommended height. It is incorrect. So don’t kick that high. Do it again correctly. Very good. That is right.
Grandmaster JinBodhi’s Energy Bagua Aerobics Tutorial:
Correct Movements
(Which movements are wrong?)
Well, your moves were very good-looking. The hand that you pulled back with the bow was near your face, and even at your ear area. This might be wrong. My teaching is that the hand shouldn’t be higher than your shoulders; it is approximately held at the chest area. This looks more correct. I don’t know if people in ancient times would put this hand close to their face, but when I am teaching this, the hand pulling back should be at the chest and not exceed shoulder height.
(Any more issues? Take a close look.)
You allocate your center of gravity like in a forward lunge, which is wrong. You won’t be able to pull a bow open with this posture. You can’t exert enough strength. So usually, you should sit back in order to pull the bow. To pull the bow, your center of gravity should be sitting back, not in the front. Yes, so when we do this kind of lunge, I usually won’t be able to pull the bow with full strength. So your weight should be on your hind leg, not the front leg. OK, do it again. That is great.
(Which movements are wrong?)
This movement is very distinct on its own. The arm that you pull the bow with is too high. This part of your upper arm is too high. This is incorrect.
(When drawing the bow, don’t raise your elbows too high.)
Here, you have to sink your shoulders and elbows. I don’t need to lift up here when I pull the bow. Don’t lift up here either. Let’s give it another try. Yes, that is correct. The hand pulling back the bow must not exceed the height of my shoulder. Also, don’t lift up this area under your armpit.
Let’s talk about some basic knowledge on self-defense, as this set of aerobics mostly comes from martial arts. In martial arts, when facing violence from the enemy, you will be beaten if you expose your body this way. So we hold our fists in the front. If I lift up my elbow, my ribs will be exposed to others. I can get injured easily this way. So when doing these movements, try your best not to lift anything up. You need to have the sense of protecting yourself when doing this movement.
(When drawing the bow, pay attention to dropping your shoulders and elbows.)
Good. That is it, right. When I pull a bow, I have to support the bow in front of me, so my ribs here will be exposed. It is OK if the enemy is still far away. But make it into a habit to retract your hands when not pulling a bow. Don’t lift up your back hand. For safety, keep this in mind.
(Which movements are wrong?)
It looks good. When you draw the bow and turn around, your waist is slanted.
(The body did not remain upright when turning around.)
You lose your sense of energy this way. This is wrong and not good for your body. When we go from pulling the bow to turning around, it is best to keep the body upright so that there is more strength, and we won’t fall easily. When my body is stretched and leaning like this, I will lose my balance. When I turn around and my waist is slanted like this, I will lose the sense of power and could easily trip and fall.
Also, you pulled the bow too fast.
(Drawing the bow too quickly.)
You haven’t pulled a bow before. It is not so easy to pull a real bow. It takes a lot of effort, so you can’t pull it so fast. Even if I am strong, this is the fastest speed I can pull it. So it shouldn’t be so fast. It is best to coordinate your hands to move at the same time, rather than stretching it afterward.
That is better. OK, now it is more coordinated. This is right.
Grandmaster JinBodhi’s Energy Bagua Aerobics Tutorial:
Correct Movements
(Which movements are wrong?)
OK, very pretty. OK, next move.
(Which movements are wrong?)
Great, OK. In my opinion, your movements are excessive.
Your hands don’t need to be stretched so high like when you’re dancing. This is actually a self-defense attacking movement from martial arts. So don’t stretch your hands too high and exaggerate the move as there won’t be a striking motion. This move comes from the self-defense techniques in martial arts, so it is definitely not a dance. When my movements are too dance-like, they lose the self-defense intention.
Your movements are too lazy. When you did this move, your standing leg hasn’t moved and isn’t bent. Your waist didn’t move with the action; only your hands and feet are moving and there is no sense of strength. It is not effective from a health-and-fitness perspective.
Your moves were too much, so neither of these were appropriate. We already have the correct demonstration of this move, so you guys can take a closer look.
Grandmaster JinBodhi’s Energy Bagua Aerobics Tutorial:
Correct Movements
(Which movements are wrong?)
Very wrong. When she pushed out her palms, her arms didn’t fully stretch out; therefore, the move has no effect. So push out correctly. I don’t require them to be straight, but they should definitely not be bent. You need to push out. It is like pushing a person out. Like this. So when I push out like this, I won’t get the effect if I stop after a slight motion. Remember to push out.
For the next move, when you pushed forward, don’t make a habit of standing in a line.
(Don’t stand in a line when stepping out.)
Look, even I can’t stand steadily this way. So when you habitually stand in a line, your upper body is wide, but your bottom portion is narrow, which makes the stance unstable. So keep some space between your legs when you push out.
Let’s take a look at the president’s bodyguards in a movie. The bodyguards all stand like this. Why? This is more stable, right? Do the president’s bodyguards stand like this? Look carefully at all the movies, as well as the bodyguards you see on the news. If there are some who stand like this, they are guards for display. They don’t know anything and just stand straight. They also don’t do any real protective work; they just check your ID before you enter.
The president’s bodyguards need to guard the president and kill any enemies. They are in this kind of state. They need to be stable, and then scout around for potential bad guys, right? They plan out actions and escape routes. So especially when we are standing on both feet and doing actions, standing in a line makes us unstable.
Push the Mountain Into the Sea
Push Mountain Palms
(Which movements are wrong?)
Alright, OK. What you did was hilarious. Usually, movement, strength, the 2 sounds and your mind go together. These 5 aspects have to come out together in order to stimulate the sense of energy. It is a burst of energy. The sound is pushed out by your movements. Don’t make the sounds long after your arms have pushed out.
(When you push the palms, the movement and sound are not in sync.)
Actually, my master taught us to use the sound to help the qi flow. I’m using my voice to assist in creating qi and energy, achieving the desired pushing effect. If I made the sound after I finished my movements, it wouldn’t be effective in creating a sudden burst of energy. Therefore, your action, strength, mind and sounds must be expressed at the same time to achieve the desired effect. If it is used for self-defense, the bad guys can be pushed away. Don’t get close to me. Right.
(Action, strength, voice and mind are united.)
Very good! I have just thought of another problem you had. When you pushed out, your weight was allocated too much on your front leg. Your knee went over your toes. This means your center of gravity was too much to the front. It is incorrect. You can retract now. This can easily hurt your knee. If someone gently pulls you forward, you will fall. So this move is wrong. When we are pushing forward, the angle between the thigh and lower leg shouldn’t be less than 90 degrees, and your weight shouldn’t be placed too much to the front. After you retracted your feet, you stood with your feet close together and in a line. It looks good, but it is unstable. Having a little distance between your feet creates stability.
Grandmaster JinBodhi’s Energy Bagua Aerobics Tutorial:
Correct Movements
Energy Bagua Aerobics is the first choice for home fitness. It fully stretches the bones and muscles. Suitable for people of all ages. Practice anywhere, anytime. Let’s do Energy Bagua Aerobics together!