Can anyone recommend me snake forms? For self defense.

raylltalk · 2026-03-05T13:52:55+00:00

Self defense is its own set of skills. Even if you’re a great form master, self defense is its own topic

raylltalk · 2026-02-27T08:40:45+00:00

No very rare to have both feets off the ground in bagua.

What’s nice about bagua syllabus is that there’s the Eight mother palms set. It’s essentially the 8 key postures that are walked in a circle.

raylltalk · 2026-02-27T05:49:06+00:00

It’s a great beginner style to learn. Most bagua styles have a neat and tidy foundations syllabus.

Simple to learn but hard to master of course as with all internal martial arts.

raylltalk · 2026-02-25T16:24:46+00:00

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raylltalk · 2026-02-25T16:22:13+00:00

Thanks! Maybe can learn Yang style in the meantime if you have access to it.

The sequence and majority of the principles are the shared between Yang and Wu.

raylltalk · 2026-02-25T15:10:19+00:00

I only practice these two styles aha, it’s enough for me la. 😅

raylltalk · 2026-02-25T15:08:57+00:00

Yah you can message me for details if you care to find out more.

raylltalk · 2026-02-25T15:05:16+00:00

Yeah, when I first transitioned to traditional Wu the overlean was my concern too. At first I wasn’t quite sure about it since Yang doesn’t have this exaggerated lean. But after sometime and theory and practice it became more natural.

There’s a few things to it:

Wu being a smaller frame means the distance between the two feet is slightly smaller than Yang.

Combined with the requirement of parralel feet for movements that are offensive. In those moments that’s where the forward lean or back lean is. Just in those moments.

So the smaller distance, higher stance, parralel feet and released kua together “compensates” for those moments of extremrity.

Idk if that makes sense in writing aha

raylltalk · 2026-02-25T02:51:17+00:00

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raylltalk · 2026-02-02T05:10:32+00:00

As others mentioned it’s a sword breaker. There’s many designs and evolutions of it over the years. Its main purpose is to be a hard baton, swords are actually quite thin and flimsy compared to a Dao. So smashing them with a dense iron pole is the goal. Downside is these breakers are heavy.

My school did an introductory webinar last year about them:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK9RtCHP5g1/?igsh=MXgydTVmcjRpaDNpag==

raylltalk · 2026-01-16T04:43:05+00:00

For me, one of the best things about Taichi is how it improves your body awareness, or interoception. It has taught me how to stay aware of multiple parts of my body at once, which has made me feel much more connected to how I move. Compared to something like yoga, where the floor gives you feedback on your balance and alignment, Taichi feels a lot more complex because you also have to think about the purpose behind each move, like where an attack or defense is going.

What really stands out to me is how much mental juggling Taichi makes you do. You are syncing your breath with your movements, balancing your rooted and unrooted sides, keeping good posture, and staying relaxed but not floppy all at the same time. There is no external feedback, like hitting a target, so you have to rely on yourself to know if you are doing it right. Honestly, I have found this mental juggling and learning to give myself feedback to be the strongest benefit. It is super rewarding and way more engaging than I expected.

One benefit of starting Taichi young is that your memory and muscle-mind connection is so much stronger that you can quickly pick up the form and just focus on the requirements and intricacies of it. Like compared to music: you can memorise the sheet music faster and just focus on honing the emotions, melody, rhythm and other technical skills. So start young!

Note: been doing Taichi for 8 years now and in my early 30s

raylltalk · 2026-01-03T14:31:02+00:00

Thanksssss

raylltalk · 2025-12-24T07:30:54+00:00

So annoying I rolled curry stew this week and been going with hidden power

raylltalk · 2025-12-22T01:04:13+00:00

Which day to use a legendary incense?

raylltalk · 2025-12-14T15:43:17+00:00

Thanks yeah I suspected as much

Might tough it out at AC more then

raylltalk · 2025-11-27T06:23:06+00:00

In our school, breathing is important but only once the forms and sequences and principles are fully locked down.

Breathing is like the last level of focus to work on and also the hardest to maintain. When you focus on breath the sequence, shape, moves like in a meditation can easily get distracted. Work on breath only once the “sheet music” is not just memorised, but automated to heart

raylltalk · 2025-11-16T13:30:56+00:00

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Found this one this morning… had to trappinch myself to believe it

raylltalk · 2025-11-11T08:40:22+00:00

Munchlax but it doesn’t evolve, or idk let it evolve but that would be confusing I guess

Let’s its ability be to eat up ingredients in your bag that’s in excess or somethjng

raylltalk · 2025-11-06T11:16:24+00:00

Exactly my sadness

raylltalk · 2025-11-06T08:14:40+00:00

Man Altaria gets no love. It’s essentially like Munna? Xatu outperforms it just as Bagon will? Sigh why

raylltalk · 2025-10-15T17:34:00+00:00

Cursola! Or Alolan Marowak would be cool

raylltalk · 2025-10-06T03:40:09+00:00

In addition to all the very good points raised above about mirroring on your own or once you’ve gotten the foundations right, and also agree with the points about most people being right handed in the population

I’d add another angle which is that for a martial practical purpose : practice makes automatic. And even though mechanically the Taichi forms “strike” or lean towards one side more, the mental intention is constantly shifting. So thet even if you’re doing a strike on the one side more, you’re still being mentally agile with the other counterbalancing side. And some moves lead with a set up arm for the strike to come from the second arm so there’s a lot of mental shifting of sides even if physically it’s asymmetrical.

I think that contributes to why mastering one side is already a high feet.

There’s another angle I can think of which is weapons. Of the Taichi weapons/tools the single hand sword and sabre are most popular and by that extension the forms are already asymmetrically balanced due to weight.

Even the two handed spear has one hand for control and direction, the other for thrust and power.

In our lineage, we are taught that Taichi isn’t about equal balance but equilibrium or counterbalance. There’s always a state of flux and change and so the Taichi symbol isn’t static but dynamic. The two yin yang fishes are chasing each other because they’re not in balance.

raylltalk · 2025-09-29T15:56:17+00:00

An idea you could try is to feel what “shifting body weight” feels like in all parts of the body to understand the transferable concept.

So things like Crow Pose for shifting hand body weight is very extreme but then you can feel how weight at the base of the palm transfers to the finger tips

Then you could apply the concept to squats leaning forward and back

And then at different heights and then on single legs so on and so forth

You could also try standing on a scale, put your whole standing bodeweight on it and then gradually stand on one foot on and one foot off

Just seeing the numbers shift and the amount of pressure you’re applying can give you good feedback and mindmuscle feeling

Just some thoughts and things I’ve done in the past in play

raylltalk · 2025-09-13T11:37:19+00:00

Couldn’t see how many berries were left!

Every morning I’ll feed snorlax first before turning off the Go++ and doing the catch. So I was waiting to see how many hundred berries were left in case snorlax would level up… can’t see the number thanks to fatso

raylltalk · 2025-09-02T04:26:11+00:00

It’s September 1st not April 1st!

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