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Principles of the arts later named Internal were complete physical relaxation, yielding to force, the use of the power of the whole body under mental control and relying on sensitivity and skill to overcome brute strength. Now here is the problem with such labels. It is not the ...

Bill, look at what I've posted. A supportable discussion on Sanchin relating it to the physical training devices used across the spectrum in martial arts. A response to that one about not believing in qi. Then a clarification to you that "qi" is an umbrella term and that it encompasses many physical ...

However in the early part of your post, I believe you're speaking ... er ... Chinese. You're talking to a biomedical engineer who doesn't believe in ki, chi, or any of that stuff per se. But I do fully appreciate the metaphor. And good human movement is good human movement, no matter what you want ...

Looking at Sanchin in terms of all Chinese martial arts (which it develops from), I see Sanchin and its purposes as being simply one of the variations and/or approaches to physical development of ki and kokyu.

To get an understanding of the idea that Sanchin might just be a variation on a theme, I ...