What are the advantages and disadvantages of Tai Chi standing?

Anyone who has learned Tai Chi will definitely come into contact with Tai Chi stance training during the learning process. People like to call it Tai Chi standing stance. It is an important method to train a person's internal strength. It is said that standing stance is the foundation of Tai Chi. If you want to become a professional Tai Chi practitioner, you must lay a good foundation for standing stance. So what are the advantages and disadvantages of doing Tai Chi standing stance frequently?

The advantages and disadvantages of Tai Chi standing:

The advantages and disadvantages of Tai Chi standing

As you stand in the stance for a long period of time and your skills improve, your body shape will naturally change. Gradually, the posture of your shoulders and shoulder blades that were originally only used when standing in the stance will become the norm in your daily life (forming a new habit). For example, the collarbone is no longer raised as before, and the distance between the shoulder blades in the back has widened. These can all be seen. I remember hearing a dancer say, "If you don't practice for one day, you know it. If you don't practice for two days, the director knows it. If you don't practice for three days, the audience knows it." The same is true for martial arts. People who practice kung fu and those who don't can be seen at a glance.

Three major points to note when practicing Tai Chi

When learning Tai Chi, you must first ensure that your body posture is correct so that you can understand the meaning of Tai Chi. Practicing Tai Chi can improve your body stability.

1. Stand upright

When standing in a stance, you must first calm your mind and then spread your feet apart. Most people have problems with their knees, hips, or fifth vertebrae, and the problems will naturally show up when they separate their feet, with either the left foot being straight and the right foot slanted, or the right foot being straight and the left foot slanted. This must be corrected, otherwise the body cannot be straight. The outsides of both feet should be shoulder-width apart, with toes pointing forward or slightly outward, but the left and right feet must be symmetrical.

When adjusting your feet, your hips should also be adjusted accordingly so that your body can be straightened. When viewed from the side, the ears, shoulders, hip bones, and ankles form a straight line. The fundamental internal principle is to accurately position each joint so that the body's center of gravity forms a vertical line from top to bottom, neither forward nor backward, left nor right.

The posture of Tai Chi is to stand upright. If you want to stand upright, you must first keep your head upright, so as to avoid falling to the left or right.

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Keep your head raised naturally and listen carefully behind you. Listening behind you is to maintain mental balance. If a person looks forward and listens forward, his qi will rise; if he looks forward and listens backward, his qi will naturally fall. From a martial arts perspective, it also requires one to keep one's eyes and ears open.

2. Relax appropriately

Everyone knows that the requirements of relaxing shoulders, sinking elbows, tucking chest and bending waist are for relaxation. However, how much relaxation to adopt is a very difficult issue to grasp in boxing practice. Relaxation serves a purpose, the more relaxed you are, the better. The purpose of this is to open up the Dantian.

When practicing Tai Chi, the looser you are, the better. It is just right when you are relaxed to the point that every joint is connected and your qi flows throughout. If you relax more, the core position of Dantian will be affected, which will cause errors. Therefore, relax your shoulders, sink your elbows, tuck your chest in, and bend your waist to form the core of Dantian. When all parts of the body are relaxed to just the right degree, the core position of Dantian will be formed naturally. If you don't relax enough or too much, it will affect the formation of the Dantian core and cause errors.