Why is this always a big ARGUMENT? People often slap their OWN DEFINITIONS on the utility of WaiGong and NeiGong. Some people would even consider them to be the SAME THING. What they don't realize is that you can't have WaiGong without NeiGong or NeiGong without WaiGong, but which one is really the most IMPORTANT? That's what we are here to talk about... Taiji, Bagua, XingYi, Baiji - all Kung Fu have these methods - BUT WHAT ARE THEY?? Let's talk about it.

The Original Video Description: "For the coming Dragon New Year I’m going to post a bit more than usual. Particularly about foundational training and Qi Gong. Xu Shifu taught an immense amount of QiGong/DaoYin. He always emphasized that every QiGong exercise he taught had martial connection. Baguazhang being a martial art means the martial side is the primary training and all other things whether they be health or spiritual etc filter through that. If you are practicing Baguazhang and it’s accompanying drills, QiGong, meditation etc but do not keep the martial aspects firmly at the core of your training then you lose what you are training and it isn’t Baguazhang and the art fades and can be lost in a waves of delusion. Here 徐世熙 demonstrates QiGong/DaoYin exercises linked to 掖掌 Ye Zhang. The second part, what he would call 功夫樁 GongFu post standing is a more intense standing method than general 站樁 that is focused on developing the body for martially engaging and grappling an opponent. Here he performs the stances high but they are generally performed much lower. I included brief ideas but not complete instructions as the exercises are more in depth - too much for this platform. Both of these exercises can build the abilities to gather and emit Qi and power both martially and otherwise when trained correctly and diligently. " -Marc Mastrandrea

Simon and Marc introduce the channel, how Simon got interested in Sichuan cooking, and the triangle of Chinese traditional arts. It's an interview about how and why Wok Drop started.

Here is an introduction of one of the ShiBaFa instructors and Doctor of Classical Chinese Medicine. 🙌

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