>>193830
>traditional Asian "internal" martial arts like Qi Gong or Tai Chi
Yes, but only if you learn the real stuff from a teacher that knows what they're doing. One missing link in the chain of transmission, one cluelessly ignorant teacher, and all of his student-lineage is doomed to practicing wishy-washy spiritual mumbo-jumbo with no physical or martial substance.

>relaxing your bicep and back completely when throwing a cross and precisely activating the muscles necessary in the right order to deliver the strike with the most speed, power and the least energy expenditure.
It's called fajin - there's a bit more to it but it's confusing to explain without in person demos and a basic understanding of the fundamentals and terminology. You can probably find fajin demonstration videos on youtube, just be warned that when done very well it looks "fake" because of little visible effort, and that there are many, many actual fakes that lacked the skill/practice or tutelage to learn how to do it for real - fakes like the aikido (& kungfu) guys that throw people without touching them.

>>193847
>relaxed & locked in place
Yeah that's extremely confusing for a beginner but it is an accurate description of what's going on. Another way to describe it is relaxed but with intent (yi). It makes very little sense unless you get an in-person demo and you can press on a teacher's arms and feel the difference between
>relaxed, limp, & loose
>tight, muscles flexed, stiff
>relaxed w/ intent, "locked in place"
When done right you have the structure to resist forces while maintaining fluidity of motion. Idk how to explain concisely solely through text

>lost in translation
It's hard to explain because many of the concepts are foreign not because of language but because people don't normally move that way. The chinese terms are used instead of trying to co opt english words, but ppl have tried ex. "kinesthetic sense", "neural pathway programming" etc.
t. yiquan practitioner

Back | Go to board

Board:

/xs/

Thread:

Muscle Control applied to martial arts.