Up and down: general #302

The Laozi (= Daodejing = Tao Te Ching) and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Listening to the audio version of Braiding Sweetgrass it became crystal clear to me that the thought of the Laozi–I do not want to say Daoist philosophy in general, because it concerns the Laozi in particular–makes so much more, and deeper sense, if you approach it from the perspective of indigenous knowledge traditions.
WeiterlesenOnline-Seminar an der Kneipp-Akademie: „Die Shaolin-Methode zur Transformation der Sehnen“
29.01.2022, 09:00 Uhr – 30.01.2022, 16:00 Uhr (Teil 1), 26.03.2022, 09:00 Uhr – 27.03.2022, 16:00 Uhr (Teil 2)
https://www.kneippakademie.de/kurs/die-shaolin-methode-zur-transformation-der-sehnen/
A fine line: general #61
Gestures and natural languages: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #25 Double Tan Sau 詠春拳的雙攤手
The chopping arm: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #24 Double Cham Sau 詠春拳的雙斬手
This video discusses the double Cham Sau, the double chopping arms movement in the Siu Nim Tau , the first form of Wing Chun from the perspective of internal practices not as a separating, but as an integrated and integrative movement.
Not simply a straight line: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #18 Palms to the sides
The Daoist philosophical perspective is a clear rejection of authoritarian ways of organizing things, of authoritarian systems–not just politically. Authoritarian patterns focus on the accumulation of individual power. They are not community centered and not about empowering larger sustainable systems.
Read moreBefore I go into this blog post’s actual topic I would like to say something about my blog posts in general: Many among the readers who have been following me for some time, might already be familiar with many of the Daoist concepts I am writing about. On the other hand, it seems that many things need to be heard at least a „thousand times“ before one can actually listen to them for the first time. You might have experienced this yourself, but it is also an important insight for one’s own teaching.
Read moreOpening: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #23 Double Fak Sau 詠春拳的雙拂手
Moving in between: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #20 Palms to the front
Subtle integration: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #19 Palms to the rear
Relativity: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #18 Palms to the sides
Wakening up 抱一: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #18 Palms to the sides
A straight line is not a straight line: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #18 Palms to the sides
Pulse of life within: Steve Cook and Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #15 Fok Sau – the crouching and hiding hand 詠春拳的伏手
Complex patterns of gestures: Steve Cook and Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #15 Fok Sau – the crouching and hiding hand 詠春拳的伏手
Embodiment | building bridges 尋橋: Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #12 Jum Sau – the sinking hand 詠春拳的沉手 https://youtu.be/Jn0GV8jRQpI
Body and mind 自化: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – Wing Chun YouTubes internal aspects – general 道家內功#01
Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – interview – YouTube #00 Internal aspects of the Wing Chun forms 關於詠春拳的內功基礎
No will | lifting | it 自化: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #03 Lifting the arms
Coming together | scattering 聚散: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #08 From fist to palm – 詠春拳的日子沖拳成攤手
Spiraling movements | waves | pulsing: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #05 Crossed hands downwards – 詠春拳的下交叉耕手
The grounding hand 根: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #04 Withdrawing the fists 詠春拳的收拳
Movement | tranquility – tension | relaxation 動靜 剛柔: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #03 Lifting two arms
Initiation 自然 一: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #02 Initiating arm lifting
Repetitions 反: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #6 Crossed hands upwards – 詠春拳的上交叉攤手
Wind – unfolding 自化: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #16 Pak Sau – the patting/clapping hand 詠春拳的拍手
The strength of no ego 損: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #17 Forward moving palm 詠春拳的正掌
Continuity – continuum 常: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #17 Forward moving palm 詠春拳的正掌
Not cutting off 不割: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #11 Kao Sau – the cutting hand 詠春拳的割手
No isolation 和: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #9 Huen Sau – the circling hand – 詠春拳的圈手
Opening up space for offering and receiving 攤的意義: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #10 Slow low Tan Sau – the slow low displaying hand 詠春拳的慢低攤手
Condensing and dispersing 聚散: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #8 From fist to palm – 詠春拳的日子沖拳成攤手
Reconnecting with the source 連泉: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #7 The fist in Wing Chun – 詠春拳的日子沖拳
Connected distance 攔字: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #22 Lan Sau – the barring hand 詠春拳的攔手
Female & male energies 雌雄,護字第二: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #14 Wu Sau – the guarding hand 詠春拳的護手
Guarding 護字: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #14 Wu Sau – the guarding hand 詠春拳的護手
Networks | cycles | constellations: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #13, another circling hand, Wing Chun’s Huen Sau 詠春拳的圈手
Non-pulling pulling and non-action: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #21 Lap Sau 詠春拳的拉手
Inner and outer spirals: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #21 Lap Sau 詠春拳的拉手
Now there is also an updated English translation of „The Healing Aspects of Wing Chun – An initial discussion of the Siu Nim Tau, the first form of Wing Chun“, a paper that was originally published in German. From this page of the Journal of Martial Arts Research (JOMAR) you can now download the German as well as the English version of this paper: https://ojs.uni-bayreuth.de/index.php/jomar/article/view/133
There exist many versions about the origin of the martial art Wing Chun. And it is not always easy to tell which story or what part of which story is correct. Yip Man’s (葉問師公) story of Wing Chun’s origin was an important one to me, because I was a student in his lineage. It puzzled me for a long time.
The movements you can already see in the first videos and the ones you will be seeing in the coming videos of this series about the internal aspects of the first three Wing Chun forms on my YouTube channel, are not the complete movements from the Siu Nim Tau (小念頭). I take movements from the different sections of the Siu Nim Tau and break them up into tiny bits. This way it is much easier to see how you can take a step by step approach to come to grips with the internal aspects of the Siu Nim Tau.
After you feel that you got a better grasp of the overall connectedness within one of those bits, you do the whole section of the Siu Nim Tau it belongs to. Then you observe whether you can import the feeling that you have just developed within a mini movement into a more complex set of movements. It is a back and forth between these bits and the whole section, or even the complete form. The Siu Nim Tau is way too complex to get something meaningful out of it by only repeating it as a whole over and over again.
I will soon start a video series on the internal aspects of the first three Wing Chun forms (Siu Nim Tau, Chum Kiu, Biu Jee – 詠春拳的小念頭、尋橋與標指). It will be published on YouTube. Here you find the link to an introductory conversation between Steve Cook, San Diego, and me about the background of my approach: https://youtu.be/u585HnACyTk
Ich starte bald mit einer englischsprachigen Videoserie auf YouTube über die inneren Aspekte der ersten drei Wing-Chun-Formen (Siu Nim Tau, Chum Kiu, Biu Jee – 詠春拳的小念頭、尋橋與標指). Hier ist der Link zu einem Gespräch zwischen Steve Cook, San Diego, und mir, das die Hintergründe meiner Herangehensweise ein wenig beleuchtet: https://youtu.be/u585HnACyTk (Gespräch auf Englisch)
「为道日损。损之又损。以至于无为。」(《老子》第48章)
在上篇文章中我提到《老子》里有关内功动作与「自然」的观念。然而跟、观察及顺应其自然的动作却是听而容易,做而难。实际上放弃有意识地控制动作、听任动作、或多或少的观察及信任存于体内的动作知识是件困难的事。
「為道日損。損之又損。以至於無為。」(《老子》第48章)
在上篇文章中我提到《老子》裡有關內功動作與「自然」的觀念。然而跟、觀察及順應其自然的動作卻是聽而容易,做而難。實際上放棄有意識地控制動作、聽任動作、或多或少的觀察及信任存於體內的動作知識是件困難的事。