Travel guide Burt Wolf hears from Taiwan’s Luo Dexiu about the internal martial arts:
“A bigger circle is like one integration with everything, like your body movement, your power, your mind. And sometimes you’ll find your body rhythm becomes very peaceful and organized together. So this one can train you to become really the one, and trick out your body potential, some kind of spirit, some kind of energy… In every kind of thing, including martial arts, we always try to combine the tao… ‘Stick your hands’ is one of the Baguazhangde, a high level training way. They use the body to ring the temple, circle the temple, and to come out of your body the way the hand moves with, and train you sensitive. So two way, one use the arm, the sensitive way, in a circle, find out the opening, the weaker point, what point you can push him that he lose the balance. And another thing is that, sometimes, you have non-movement, the body movement find a balance, so hold of circle become the one. So this is the weak holder; small circle equal the bigger circle.”
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