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Yang Banhou told Wang Jiaoyu that if he could put his chin to his toe in the chin-to-toe exercise within 100 days, he would teach him. Jiaoyu succeeded. Since Wang Jiaoyu was a Han, Yang took Wang as his student and trained him in the secret Guang Ping style, and made him promise not to teach this art as long as the dynasty was in power.
It starts off with circular abdominal massage to aid digestion by warming and supporting spleen yang, using the entire upper torso to move the hands. The arms are then poised to open and stretch the armpit activating the spleen's close relationship with Heart and Liver (Heart is the "mother" of spleen and liver stores xue) by stretching the flanks.
Pingshuai is simple. It has health-giving properties. Daily Pingshuai is claimed to enhance immune system, improves balance, makes joints and muscles more flexible, fortifies muscles, joints and bones, enhances blood and Qi circulation, replenishes energy, relaxes, calms and clears the mind, and sharpens senses.
Baoding balls in use. The basic exercise consists of holding a pair of Baoding balls in the palm of one hand, rotating them (switching the relative position of the two balls) while maintaining constant contact between them. Once this technique has been mastered, the rotation speed can be gradually increased until the balls separate in the hand.
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The "工" Character in Taming the Tiger Fist is so called because its footwork traces a path resembling the character "工". Tiger Crane Paired Form Fist 虎鶴雙形拳. pinyin: hǔ hè shuāng xíng quán; Yale Cantonese: fu hok seung ying kuen. Tiger Crane builds on Taming the Tiger, adding "vocabulary" to the Hung Ga practitioner's repertoire.
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The Yijin Jing is a manual of Daoyin exercises, [2] a series of cognitive body and mind unity exercises practiced as a form of Daoist neigong, meditation and mindfulness to cultivate jing (essence) and direct and refine qi, the internal energy of the body according to traditional Chinese medicine. [3]