Monday, November 21, 2011

How to make the Transition From Shaolin to Wudan

By Gilbert Karlis


Shaolin is a single from the oldest martial arts on a planet. It was brought from India by a fellow referred to as Bodhidharma, and has been credited with getting inspirational to martial artists the world over. Interestingly, Shaolin eventually became an internal kind of martial art atop Wudan Mountain.

I know there will be people who disagree in the thought I provide here, but I preserve to it, as I have watched students evolve, as well as the evolution of art from Shaolin to Wudan mirrors what I have witnessed students go via over a very own level. Indeed, as students peel layers off the art, so do they add layers of awareness inside themselves, and gain the truly miraculous.

The student new to Shaolin learns to explode energy within the tan tan, to spread that energy throughout his frame and make his physique like a rock. Arms become iron windmills, stances attach him permanently for the planet. This, however, is all according to exploding energy within the the body.

As a student progresses through kinds of art he might encounter the notion of absorbing energy. The physical act of guiding a punch, instead of blocking it, mirrors the thought of drawing energy in, instead of just expelling it. This progression of art is usually from Shaolin Kung Fu, from your sticky hands of Wing Chun Kung Fu, and, eventually, to the push hands of Wudan Tai Chi Chuan.

And, even if the student stays within 1 art, he will evolve to the soft. The unfortunate fact of aging, of the entire body no longer being in a position to expel the tremendous force of a few of the tough arts, will draw the student into the softer arts. He will punch so that he does not get whiplash, he will use his legs so he doesn't suffer hip injury, and he will come to be softer in his technique to the art.

As these progressions of age and art occur, students discover to become softer, utilizing their minds and their bodies to use a smaller amount effort, and yet preserve the abilities they've gained in the hard arts. Rather than violently thrusting energy through their bodies, they use the energy slowly, and focus it. Thus, the blinders slowly occur off, and awareness seeps in.

Instead of exploding energy brutally through their bodies, the students seep the energy via their bodies. They discover to guide this energy with their awareness, and the smallest of their motions contain ideas of energy. They understand how the crude entire body energy they utilized once they had been young and robust was...unaware.

Finally, they make the change from tough to soft, from inner to outer, from internal to external, and also the Shaolin adept becomes the Wudan sage. Rather than utilizing violent art, the Wudan master moves with an opponent, drawing within the energy from the attack and transforming as he wishes. Yet, while there is wisdom during the Gung Fu on the Wudan variety, there is no disdain for ones hard, for the true sage knows the require for his early Shaolin training, he knows the benefit of understanding energy on difficult levels if the student is to generate the transition to the softer Wudan intelligence.




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