Excellent dunny design

This dummy has a really well thought out design. Look at how you can modify this to change aspects of height, rotation, angle of the leg etc.

It felt good watching this. 

 

 

Research experiment on the 8 pieces of brocade's value

 Here is a link to a scientific paper that shows the benefits of the 8 pieces of brocade in an experiment on 170 subjects.

It found sleep was benefitted.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02348/full

Chi Kung 5 years on.

 5 years now I have been doing Chi Kung.

It is worth doing and it should be taught in martial art clubs to keep people normal.

Health is seen as something that goes missing, when you get injured but it should be seen rather, as something to be maintained. Mental health and emotions need looking at. Chi Kung exercises do relate to body and mind / emotions.

This year for the 8 pieces of brocade I had to stop in March / April as I was sick with Covid. I could not breath properly and the abdominal breathing was not possible properly. I had to abort that and the 6 sounds of chi kung too.

In later Spring I carried on with the 8 pieces of brocade, as that is my rock. Then later in Summer I started up again with the 6 sounds. I even bought a coloured lightbulb to co-ordinate the sounds with colours and to aid the visualisations. Mmmmm ... I tried hard for months at this but let it go by the wayside. I could not honestly feel any benefits. I keep the big ideas however, of how colour and emotions are linked to organs and how heat transfer is needed to gain health in these organs.  I have seen people link the sounds to the 8 pieces of brocade and link in colours too, I know the theory behind these associations.

What I did go back to is standing like a tree in early September. I have completed 100 days now doing this. This was a good move. I will keep this going now to complement the 8 pieces, like I used to. I will be watchful this time of my knee and have shorter sessions. 

The big change for the 8 pieces of brocade now is I want to do it, early when I wake up vs putting it off. I use it now to unpack my achy muscles when I wake up. If I do not do this, then my body feels like an unmade bed, all creased up. The 8 pieces de-creases this with the stretches. Also I am more slow and less rushed in the progression of the moves. This is not a race. 

In Spring I was over zealous in touching my toes and holding the pose that my hamstrings did not like it. The effect stayed for months there. Again DO WHAT the advice is - never go beyond 80% of your capacity in Chi Kung.  Also I stopped trying to copy Dr. Yang Jwing- Mings 'wavy wiggle' when he does this, as it is distracting my stance, and my knees are unbending. Now I focus more on keeping that stance as other practitioners do not have that wave up the body he has. 

Also I have tried juggling the order of the moves. If I am distracted, I do the punches earlier in the sequence, if that helps to gain focus rather. 

Can VR Help With Martial Arts?! Creed Boxing: Oculus Quest 2

This man answers a question I have had for ages. He tries a VR game to see if it will help his skills.

He has more positives than negatives.

(I did not consider sweat would be an issue and of course motion sickness can be an issue).

Good stuff.

When to use your Massage Gun - The best time to do it - With the Voxpro ...

This man uses his massage gun very well in his suite of videos. He shows how to hold the gun and how to position yourself for each muscle group clearly.

He has good instruction.

I am glad I got a massage gun. They are many clones of the same gun, I do not think it really matters if you get a cheap one. I looked out for one that said it was quiet, but I bet the 2nd generation guns are all quiet now.

Self-massage tools

 I bought this massage tool. It is excellent. Really glad I got this, as it can be placed in 'that' spot that causes problems. I jab it into the lower trapezius muscles and it feels great. Also jab it into the pectoral muscles and feet too. I feel fizzy after using this, and it is so basic, it is really fascinating. 

Also bought a massage gun, too. Should have got one ages ago, too, with the above 'S' shaped stick as self massage is something that can on only benefit you after training / health generally. I bought a book on self-massage too. The are multiple benefits. This stuff should be taught in schools, far more use than learning how to do a cartwheel in P.E.!

'Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone' (Baz Luhrmann)

This practitioner's  YouTube Channel is very good. He shows strong Qi Gong advice that is tied to theory. He shows where pressure points are in some of his moves.

Here he offers knee advice.

Knees are always a source of pain at some time or other. Something to do with evolution and the modern life, I have been led to believe. The knee is not a well designed joint.

My point is we need to be taught self-healing. That should be in the school syllabus and I feel coaches should be taught this  to move beyond warm up and cool down exercise to push themselves and those they teach to the next level.

Baz Luhrmann's song / poem 'Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)' is behind the title of this blog entry. I advise you listen to that periodically, as it is so wise!

Cool Wing Chun dummy

This looks good. I used to think the Wooden Dummy was derived from a stool or table turned on its side to face the practitioner. Here he uses a stool as the body. (Wonder what the 'jar' is in the body and how hardy that is)?