white crane hard qigong and taiji

[shaheen]

i am a taiji player and i am new at this forum i just want to improve my taiji and increase my fighting ability
so i have a question is playing white crane hard qigong helpful to me?
and what is the benefits of practicing white crane?
and thanks for this great forum

[SunTzu]

Hi Shaheen,

Welcome to the forum.
All I can say about White Crane Hard Qigong (I don't know dr. Yang's crane qigong) is that ALL practice is good.

But ..

Maybe it's better for you to start with Taiji qigong first, I don't know at what level you practice Taijiquan, but hard qigong in Taijiquan is (to my knowledge) quite advanced training, since internal styles advance from soft to hard and external styles advance from hard to soft.

Here are some links to some good YMAA books on Taijiquan (by dr. yang), I don't know which style of Taijiquan you're practicing but I think these will bring you a long way on theory, qigong, qinna, and other applications.

http://www.ymaa.com/publishing/books/internal/taijiquan_theory_dryang

http://www.ymaa.com/publishing/books/qigong/essence_of_taiji_qigong

http://www.ymaa.com/publishing/books/internal/tai_chi_chuan_martial_applications

http://www.ymaa.com/publishing/books/internal/tai_chi_theory_and_martial_power

http://www.ymaa.com/publishing/books/internal/taiji_chin_na_the_seizing_art

[shaheen]

thanks for your reply i practice yang style but i want to began in chen style as i knew that chen style is the best in fighting is it right?
and i will read the links you gave
thanks again

[SunTzu]

Shaheen,

The quality of fighting is found in the practitioner, not the art itself.
Like a painting (A Rembrandt for instance) cannot arise without the artist, no art can arise without the presence of an artist. It's the artist who makes the art, not the art that makes the artist.


S.T.