| All styles of Tai Chi Chuan have internal exercises | | | | Chuan? For any serious practitioner of Chinese |
| or "neigong" which develop the called "changsijing" | | | | martial arts, when studying different styles, it |
| or winding silk power. It is most obviously | | | | becomes obvious that even for all internal styles |
| performed in Chen style and Wu style Taijiquan. | | | | including Baguazhang (Eight Trigrams Palms |
| The common explanation of the movement is the | | | | Boxing), Xingyiquan or Dachenquan (Yiquan), |
| analogy of "reeling the silk from a silk worm | | | | chansijing exists too. But the extraordinary |
| cocoon": in order to preserve from breaking the | | | | contribution of Chen style Taijiquan to voluntary |
| silk thread, the movement should be round, | | | | expose it to the public, integrating in his warming |
| smooth and issued from the whole body. | | | | exercises as well making it much obvious within all |
| But this analogy has its limitations and for a | | | | movements of any frame, in a word making it |
| deeper understanding but especially further | | | | one of its distinctive mark among other martial |
| practicing of it you NEED to understand the | | | | arts. |
| INTERNAL process within your body beyond pure | | | | In fact silk reeling movement requires the perfect |
| mimic performance of silk reeling. | | | | integration and synchronisation of two entities |
| To be more specific there are two points that | | | | being separated in the "real" reeling: the one who |
| are generally misunderstood concerning this | | | | is pulling the silk thread and the silk worm cocoon |
| exercise: | | | | itself. In Taijiquan silk reeling movements, you |
| - Is Chansigong wrong when too slowly | | | | have these both entities integrated in your body. |
| executed? The real answer is that in the beginning | | | | Contradictively pulling or pushing on one side and |
| level, the practitioner needs to experiment his | | | | slowly winding in the other side... That is what is |
| reeling power therefore he has to progressively | | | | called in any indoor martial art: internal |
| calibrate the power he is exerting as well as how | | | | movements. |
| he should develop it. That is the reason why he | | | | An unvaluable authentic document written by the |
| has to make more explicit: not too slow. But after | | | | 16th generation inheritor of Chen style Tai Chi |
| several years of practice and research by your | | | | Chuan, Chen Xin, "Illustrated Explanations of Chen |
| own, you will understand that it is not in fact the | | | | Style Taijiquan", will provide much deeper insights |
| speed that matters but rather the acceleration in | | | | of chansijing, transporting its reader from the |
| your movement therefore you can even practice | | | | ancient Chinese principles up to the expression in |
| chansigong very slowly but still winding your | | | | combat situation while using silk reeling power as |
| power. | | | | its constant reference. |
| - Does chansijing only performed in Tai Chi | | | | |