Several pages detail Chinese Internal Martial Arts DVDs including Qigong, Tai Chi, George Xu, Chen Style, Yang Style, Wu Style, Xing-Yi, Lan Shou, Tong Bei, Liu He Ba Fa, Tui Na, and Chi Running. The Internal Energy Series, top-level practitioners of internal martial arts describe and demonstrate their specialized understanding and use of qi.

NEW! The Double Dragon Alliance 2009 Shanghai Training Camp 3 Volume Set. These videos help to clarify understanding of energy use in martial applications. Five master practitioner/teachers of Chinese internal martial arts: Master Liu Ji Fa, Master Shou Guan Shun, Master Ren Gang, Master Liu Hong Cai, and Master Wang Ming Bo each present approaches to cultivating and using energy that are truly unique and valuable for learners seeking their own path of understanding.Ms. Rose Oliver, a long-time Shanghai resident and practitioner of Chinese martial arts, translates. She and camp co-coordinator, Wang Ming Bo, have been dedicated to introducing masters who graciously share their knowledge obtained from decades of study in one or more styles of Taijiquan, Ba Gua, Lan Shou, Shaolin, and Xingyi. Learners from around the world can increase their knowledge and ability with the information presented. Produced by PT Richard in partnership with Susan A. Matthews (www.susanamatthews.com) and www.DoubleDragonAlliance.com.

Thanks for producing these dvds, for the unselfish disclosure of martial arts knowledge by the masters, and good translation by Rose...Master Liu Hong Cai definitely deserves to have in his resume that he has the Chen transmission. TLH, Maylasia

3 VOL SET WHOPPING DISCOUNT 26% ONLY $69.95 +sh

VOL 1 Internal Energy Techniques and Principles with Masters Wang Ming Bo, Liu Hong Cai, and Ren Gang. 1hr 30 min. $39.95

Vol 1-1 Wang Ming Bo (Yang Style) Morning Exercises.
Shanghai China internal martial arts master Wang Ming Bo, assisted by Rose Oliver, leads a follow-along set of morning exercises. Using mind intention with qi. He applies some of what Wang Zhi Xiang (see below) explains about bamen wu bu in specific practice; for example, using the eyes to coax the qi and the spirit into desired action, and moving energy outside of the physical body by using mind intention. Also about balancing yin and yang and thwarting the advance of an opponent by taking advantage of his energy and use it to repel him. He repels himself in effect because it's his own energy you're utilizing. Master Wang suggest techniques, such as opening the lower back and back of the knees, to release trapped energy and help cultivate longevity.

Vol 1-2 Liu Hong Cai (Chen Style). Introduction to Chen Style Silk Reeling: Basic Exercises and Demonstrations
Master Liu describes two types of silk reeling, a wrapping type of energy 'doing' the movement and 'using' it to affect another. He stresses that you have to understand energy to apply silk reeling. Silk reeling is a gathering and closing of energy, or power in spiraling movement. Energy manifests itself differently in different people. Whatever form it takes you must learn to maintain the feeling and gain control of it as it happens to you when you're doing the form. Circulate qi through body so that it passes through the body to apply. He shows how doing single whip. The feeling, or the energy, has to arrive at the exact point (da wei) not just the body. He demonstrates this in the first move of the form. (Double Dragon Alliance video Liu Hong Cai pushes with Wang Ming Bo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BBXOmYo6fE), Double Dragon Alliance video (Liu Hong Cai performs Chen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em4incca1Xo )

Vol 1-3 Ren Gang (Yang Style) Internal Principles of Taijiquan: Lecture and Demonstration.
How to use energy to move. Don't use muscular/structural power. Stop thinking of yourself as muscle. To do so, think about yourself as bone structure, then go on from there to be nothing at all. Demonstrates how not to react to the touch of another person/opponent and not to concentrate on the point of contact. 'The entire body is aware.' Use the whole body to feel and to understand completely, not just arms. He talks about Gan Shou (feeling), Ting Jing (listening), Kong (emptiness), Fa Jing (explosive force), Hua (absorb and dissipate), Song (relax), Xing (heart). How much can we feel of the things around us? Listen with your body, not just with your ears, or an arm where someone is touching you. Be relaxed, don't tense up, listen with your heart. Listen to the entire person, sensing that person as a whole being. Don't use just technique to break their hold. That's not complete understanding. Become an energy being, not a physical entity, so that your opponent won't have anything to grab onto.

 

VOL 2 Master Liu Ji Fa at Double Dragon Alliance 2009 Shanghai Camp. Three Simple Wu Style Qigong Exercises.
Liu Ji Fa (Wu Style) Three Simples Exercises to Open Hips, Use Dantian, and Integrate into Whole Body 44 min $24.95

Lecture, Demo, and Training the center of body. Master Liu gives a description of the dantien both as a point and as a field and emphasizes the importance of training the dantian. Master Liu's demonstrations, discussion and exercise leading complements the attention to energy given by others in the training camp. In push hands, he shows how he takes the energy of someone pushing on his chest through dantian then returning it to them once they are committed. This educational video is also very entertaining. Produced by Tim Richard.

 

 

 

VOL 3 Master Shou Guan Shun on Shen Jen Ba Gua and Push Hands Internal Principles
Lessons on the 'Power Shield.' 1hr 15 min. $29.95.

Shou Guan Shun (Yang Style) Shen Jin Ba Gu Stretching and Yang Style Push Hands Basics
Shen Jin Ba Gu is a Lan Shou style power stretching set. It helps to build good physical structure while releasing trapped qi. A very good complement to what Master Liu Hong Cai says about the need to have correct physical structure as well as energy alignment. Master Shou talks about filling the body with qi. The tips of the fingers are flush, even pudgy, with qi. In push hands he pushes blindfolded to demonstrate how to sense the other person's movement with the body, not look with the eyes only. He also works with participants in Da Lu, or walking push hands.

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Lessons on Energy from other Masters

Using energy to move is a key goal to achieving skill in Chinese internal martial arts and each system has its own method for using and applying it. Much of what they share with viewers and students in these sessions is a public sharing unprecedented in martial arts world. They have mastered their art and provide information rarely shared in martial arts. For them no secret is too secret and it is important to spread the knowledge of internal martial arts in order to preserve it.
The mind is a powerful tool in evolving a conscious awareness of animal energy. Master Xu refers to 'mind power' and being 'crystal clear' in your awareness of the qi moving through your body and outside of it. Awareness of energy leads to power, mass, speed and freedom. Dr. Wang offers a unique academic presentation of the geometry of energy in this hour-long classroom style lecture. Susan A. Matthews is increasingly sought out for her cutting edge application of neuroscience theory to taijiquan and qigong practice.

Brain Workshop™ Mind and Movement Exercises for a New Brain with Susan Matthews. Two DVD set ©2008 $34.95 plus S&H.(see description and watch video clip)

Eight Pieces of Brocade Qigong with Susan Matthews. ©2002, 2006 $19.95 (see description, clip, and more qigong titles)