Internal Martial Arts Core Method: Training the Dragon Waist
Various methods exist for training Chinese internal martial arts, the key is to see the training effects. Dragon descendants train martial arts by metaphoring their waist area as a dragon waist, reasonably training a dragon waist is reasonable internal energy training. The training aims to enhance the movement ability and strength of the waist area, so that every shape or movement of boxing has dragon waist movement and generates movement-producing force and movement-countering ability.
The secret lies in: humans evolved from crawling on four limbs to standing and walking upright, standing and walking makes the small abdomen rely on the pelvis and two hips together with the lumbar vertebrae to support the entire upper body and movement ability. The human small abdomen is the center of movement space, and when the center moves, it must radiate movement energy to the circumference.
Internal martial arts should be targeted at the movement rules of the center of the movement space, to practice the human small abdomen and waist, so that the small abdomen relies on the pelvis to stabilize the movement rules of the body, the small abdomen assists the lumbar vertebrae's movement ability, becomes the main axis of the human rotation, therefore, filling the small abdomen with power is to increase internal energy. This internal energy can chain link the movement joints and parts of the human body, such as the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, feet, hands, and buttocks, to exert martial arts capabilities. And with the power of the center, stabilize the body's movement center, produce the human's own Tai Chi rules.
The Shanghai Heart and Mind Six Harmonies Fist's Dragon Hold Shoulder one style is the most unique internal martial arts training method in Chinese martial arts. The Dragon Hold Shoulder style's fixed posture training twists the waist reasonably to the maximum angle, just like we twist a towel to its maximum limit. When we release our hands, the towel appears to rebound. The Dragon Hold Shoulder's fixed stance training consolidates the rigidity of the human small abdomen, so that the center of the movement space (small abdomen) can transmit the power of the root, knee, hip to the upper body, producing the human's stillness as stillness as the body, for health. If moving, it has the movement capability of a wandering dragon.
Training internal energy in this way can be metaphorically seen as building an aircraft carrier. The military uses aircraft carriers to form a strong combat group. The Dragon Hold Shoulder style training fills the small abdomen (dantian) to store and transport the movement power of the human body, harmonizes the body's physical capabilities for martial arts behavior, the dragon waist regulates the power and angle of the limbs and body parts, so that the head, shoulders, elbows, hands, hips, knees, feet, and buttocks joints produce agile, and also at the same time precisely exert overall combat capabilities.
