Comments on: Internal Iron Q&A http://www.clearstaichi.com/internal-iron-palm-body/internal-iron-qa-1172 Tai Chi Chuan Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:49:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Craig Pirkle http://www.clearstaichi.com/internal-iron-palm-body/internal-iron-qa-1172/comment-page-1#comment-1921 Craig Pirkle Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:48:58 +0000 http://www.clearstaichi.com/?p=1172#comment-1921 Mr. Clear, Six years ago I visited your schools in Florida. During an introductory class I asked your instructor about something he had said. He asked me to wait for the intermediate class to come in to show me. Taking one of these students aside he told me to hit him hard and when I asked him where, he said, "Try the solar plexus." Mr. Clear, I have virtually no experience in boxing, etc., but I wound up and hit this guy as hard as I could several times and while one hit made him take a step back, he was unharmed nor did he even seem concerned. I may as well as have been giving him friendly pats on the shoulder. I am 6'5" and weigh 270 so I'm not a lightweight. If anybody hit me with any force in the solar plexus I am pretty sure I'll be on the ground. Mr. Clear, what happened there, please? Thank you, Craig Mr. Clear,

Six years ago I visited your schools in Florida. During an introductory class I asked your instructor about something he had said. He asked me to wait for the intermediate class to come in to show me.
Taking one of these students aside he told me to hit him hard and when I asked him where, he said, “Try the solar plexus.” Mr. Clear, I have virtually no experience in boxing, etc., but I wound up and hit this guy as hard as I could several times and while one hit made him take a step back, he was unharmed nor did he even seem concerned. I may as well as have been giving him friendly pats on the shoulder. I am 6′5″ and weigh 270 so I’m not a lightweight. If anybody hit me with any force in the solar plexus I am pretty sure I’ll be on the ground.
Mr. Clear, what happened there, please?

Thank you,

Craig

]]> By: Sigung Clear http://www.clearstaichi.com/internal-iron-palm-body/internal-iron-qa-1172/comment-page-1#comment-1920 Sigung Clear Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:35:30 +0000 http://www.clearstaichi.com/?p=1172#comment-1920 Breathing and Nei Gung (Internal Work) such as Bone Marrow Breathing and internal body alignments. We are able to get participants to feel some results from practice after the first full day session of training. It normally takes between 100 Days and 9 months for the practitioner to feel real lasting results with the Internal method. Regards. Sifu Clear Breathing and Nei Gung (Internal Work) such as Bone Marrow Breathing and internal body alignments. We are able to get participants to feel some results from practice after the first full day session of training. It normally takes between 100 Days and 9 months for the practitioner to feel real lasting results with the Internal method.
Regards.
Sifu Clear

]]> By: Rod http://www.clearstaichi.com/internal-iron-palm-body/internal-iron-qa-1172/comment-page-1#comment-1919 Rod Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:03:52 +0000 http://www.clearstaichi.com/?p=1172#comment-1919 Mr Clear, I was hoping you could expand a little on what you said in the clip about the 'internal iron'-'steel wrapped in cotton' concept in tai chi as being the internal equivalent to shaolin iron palm/body. I know that shaolin proponents spend a lot of time on their iron skills/bone hardening through hitting hard objects & I was wondering what the simple answer is as to how this happens in tai chi & in what sort of timeframe? Mr Clear,

I was hoping you could expand a little on what you said in the clip about the ‘internal iron’-’steel wrapped in cotton’ concept in tai chi as being the internal equivalent to shaolin iron palm/body. I know that shaolin proponents spend a lot of time on their iron skills/bone hardening through hitting hard objects & I was wondering what the simple answer is as to how this happens in tai chi & in what sort of timeframe?

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