Training Progress

Now three weeks into Hal Higdon's Half Marathon schedule. My muscles, bones and joints are starting to get used to the training. On his cross training days, i do my martial arts training focusing on Traditional Strength training, kf yoga, or fast walking.

Currently focusing on getting the figure four in my stride and maintaining the forefoot strike. The lungs are getting stronger.

Also working on the IMA principal of "Blurry The Vision". This cuts a lot of negative self talk and encourages mindfulness in movement. I will write more on this later. It is a fascinating aspect of running that I find to help out in many ways. Definitely more of an inner aspect of physical training.

Other mechanics that I am working on are:
Keeping the hips tucked, Chin tucked, Central Channel straight, relax all the is necessary to maintain pace instead of struggling to maintain.

July 11th - Ping Zhen Cheng Seminar

It has been 2 years since Ping was here last. Many people enjoy his thought provoking seminars on meditation, qigong, and martial arts. He will be back in Memphis as part of his teaching tour this summer. His other seminar locations are going to be Napa, California, Syracuse, NY and NYC.
The Memphis seminar will focus on Core Spiritual teachings. He will teach the following:

As Eastern spirituality and Western Science evolve together, the combined studies of psychology, pathology, neuroscience & even quantum physics have uncovered more details about meditation. It helps to balance the many inner layers of the body like the brain, the hormone system, the immune system, etc. The recent collaboration between the scientific community, Tibetan, Yogic and Zen Meditation masters have helped to redefine the meaning of terms like “harmony” and “balance”. The use of physical and scientific measurements from brain wave tests, EEG & others have helped this process.

This 3 parts workshop will cover techniques which are based on the research of multiple lineages of Eastern meditation & Western psychological approaches that can be applied at a day-to-day basis to bring balance & inner harmony to our mini-universe- the human mind-body system.

Day One:
1. The Deep Ｍelting Relaxation-combines the essence of Taoist& Tibetan Meditation with self-hypnosis: improves sleeping quality & the immune system by nurturing the brain & the meridians. Students will also learn to gradually form in-depth inner-dialogues between different layers of the being through re-directing & reprogramming the energy & inner consciousness system based on Chinese & Tibetan traditional medicine principles.

2. Chakra & personality transformational skills:
Recognizing the differences & applying them in meditation: Different levels of the TRUE SELF & False self;True & False forms of Energy, Prana, or Qi;True Emotional patterns & False emotional patterns.

3. The key of Inner Balance-Lymph node Cleansing with self-acupressure, meditation & visualization, 14 segments to cover 14 major regions.

We are organizing this seminar with Mary Ellen. Location is most likely going to be at the Open Heart Spiritual Center. I will update this post soon to include prices, final venue, etc.
Ping will also be teaching Sun Style Bagua Zhang to a small group. Contact me if you are interested.

Sun style master Zhang Lie Obituary

Ping asked me to do this last summer but I could not find anything written in english. Thanks to google translator i was able to find this obituary. His teacher, Master Zhang Lie, died in July. Master Zhang was a disciple of Sun Cun Zhou. The original article written in Chinese can be found at this location.

Obituary
Master Zhang Lie who was a disciple of well known sunshi boxing martial arts master, Mr. Sun Cunzhou, died from an illness, at 12 o'clock on July 15, 2009 in Tianjin. He was 72 years old.

Master Zhang Lie, born in 1938, was originally Beijing Ren Shi, the latter to work in Tianjin. Mr. Zhang had quite a talent in the martial arts. His martial arts training began at six years old. At the age of 13-year, thanks to Mr. Sun Cunzhou, he began learning sunshi boxing with Xingyiquan. While Master Zhang Lie attended the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications he won the champion Xing Yi Quan Wushu Tournament for Beijing's colleges and universities.
Zhang Lie, accomplished teacher, was a motor engineer. He made many technical innovations and inventions, won the award in Tianjin's "75," a meritorious service medal, and candidates for "Chinese contemporary science and technology experts in the ceremony" (Tianjin volume) , "Tianjin senior professional and technical biographical dictionaries)," Science and the Chinese people in China pool of experts).

Zhang Lie was also good for swimming, skating, dancing and can play guitar, and lute. His death is a great loss to that the Chinese Wushu Jie, especially sunshi boxing practitioners. We express our deepest condolences!

Funeral Committee decided at 8 o'clock on July 17, 2009, the second funeral was held in Tianjin, a teacher Lie funeral. Lie-lifetime teacher colleagues, students and friends and family and friendship, such as participating in the farewell ceremony, please go to time; if escort the wreaths, elegiac couplet, telegrams, poems, and other matters, please contact the office in advance with the funeral.



Address: North Road, Tianjin talent Lane 29

Contact: Li Bin
13802565388 Tel: 13,802,565,388


Lie teacher Funeral Committee

2009年7月15日 July 15, 2009

Sun style Pi Chuan Mechanics

Santishi Part One

Sun style Santi connections:
Builds upon the wu chi and Tai Chi postures
In addition to the 6 directions, there are many lines, triangles, etc. within the internal mechanics of Sun style Santishi. Yi Jin Jing is also a deeper component to Sun style. This requires the guidance of a teacher to do. Santi can also be done in a "yin/nutritive intention" or a "yang/force discharge intention". This also requires the guidance of a teacher to do.
Here are a few internal connections to get started. I hope to post more as time allows. As usual please feel free to contact me for more information.
Look up the point locations somewhere on the web if you are not familiar with the names.
Triangles:
1.) lead hand shenmen, tip of elbow, and heart one
2.) hip, knee cap,heel

Straight lines:
1.)baihui, huiyin, that line projected to earth
2.)shenmen, mingmen, heel

Don't forget to keep the spine/Du Mai extended and the Ren Mai relaxed. This last part is probably the most important.

Internal Connections of Sun Style Tai Chi posture Part 1

Next in line is the Tai Chi posture of the wu chi, tai chi, santi progression.
Here are a few simple connections of the tai chi posture to get you started:
Finger tips forward, ming men backward
Wrists up while sitting the sacrum down
Have the intention of the low back (kidneys) expanding side to side
Of course the chin is tucked causing GV 20 to be lifted, the ren channel is relaxed as the du channel is pulled tight by the above stated connections.

Internal Connections of Sun Style Wu Chi posture Part one

Here are just a few of the many internal connections that are within the wu chi posture of Sun style hsing yi chuan. As far as I know the connections appearing on my blog are not posted anywhere including the Sun style hsing i book. These connections are essential for developing wholebody power. Please work with them to see what you come up with. The clinic is slow right now so there will be time to write more connections for the taichi and santi postures.

In the interest of time I will give just a few for each of the 6 directions. You will notice these are yin/yang pairs:

Up: Bai Hui, tip of tongue to roof of mouth
Down: sacrum, shoulders
Forward: tip of thumbs
Backward: Mingmen (kidney region)
Side to side: scapula, heels split the earth
At all times relax the ren channel as the du channel has the intention of going upward.

If you have any questions please write.

Sun style and Wudang lineage chart