Using a structure

In bjj, they often tell us to use a skeletal structure to block something. It’s more efficient, not requiring wasting strength. Of course that’s a big part of neijia, maybe the very first thing, but it’s much much harder in stand up with more variables and infinite ways to compensate and not realize it’s all [...]

Neijia losing qigong and tcm concepts

If ( a big if) the best ima folks of old achieved this kind of “autopilot” qigong mastery at the same time they achieved perfect biomechanics, techniques and “no mind” flow, no wonder people thought they were so powerful. It’s hard for me to believe one could achieve that without at least some theoretical knowledge [...]

Right brain perceives the “energy” - neuroscientist describes her own stroke

This video is quite extraordinary. An expert in neuroscience and advocate for people with mental illness, Jill Bolte Taylor, suffered her own stroke and, amazingly, had enough clarity during it to realize she was having a stroke and she should take advantage of a rare opportunity to try to study the brain from the inside [...]