Earl Grey

There are thousands of systems of Chinese martial and terms specific to them and their training and resulting skills. Once again: no way to generalize a very specific thing you’re asking. Best to find the appropriate teacher.

Doggy style

Unfortunately, too many people will not think this because of conjecture and their eagerness to pursue this without appropriate guidance.

I do not think it means what you think it means.

If you’re speaking as a general rule, an inference that needs to be tested. If you have a specific system as a case study, it’s still relative only to that system.

Oh brother: where fart thou?

Fist of fury? No! Fart of fury!

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Simplest answer: breathe naturally. Also, the concise version of this thread is here on the AG forum: https://forum.alchemical.garden/branch/zenbear/

It depends on the kind of meditation you do—there are many different types.

Sleeping qigong as taught by John Dolic.

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There's a big difference between Bagua and Muay Thai, and this still isn't yuan qi. But I think this thread has enough people who are certain of themselves, and I'm just going to say "Mmmmm-kay."

It does exist--it's called Baduanjin.

False.

Turtles also breath through their anuses (no, really). Can't imagine the military finding that useful. Oh, wait:

Internal martial arts at the very least guarantees that you will survive a war or bandits, while giving you practices that keep your body healthy, mind alert for dangers of both man and nature and how to avoid or endure them. The health benefits keep you focused on living well while not burning yourself out the way more external practices can wear your joints down or exhaust your kidneys from excessive adrenaline and overexertion from the cardio and heightened tension. Normal breathing and remaining calm under all situations as well as being able to control those situations to prevent conflict and even win with words because you've sized up a situation and projected peace and power to maintain order.

After years of receiving fajin, I now can do it after seven years of training. It isn't any thing special, and the person whom I did it to, about 36-38 kg heavier than me said it was like being shoved by a much bigger person--except this guy was taller and bigger than me, and as mentioned earlier, heavier. Issuing 3% power is what causes someone to bounce back or stumble a bit; going around the 10-15% range makes them fly, and anything above that is overkill. Anyone who says they can do it or learned to do it in 1-3 years doesn't know what they're talking about. Anyone who says I should join UFC and prove this works probably doesn't realize that the spontaneity of the practice is incompatible with rules, as thinking and overthinking while restraining the body from doing illegal moves creates tension that impairs one's ability to relax and release. Fajin is more useful for ending a conflict in less than 5 seconds, maybe 2 ideally, 10 max, such as issuing fajin to someone attempting to shove you or pick your pocket and mug you. My classmate issued fajin when someone attempted to collide with her and she rooted, causing him to fly back instead. It takes years to be able to control and end things in a few seconds rather than prolong it over several rounds. It takes even more years to end conflict by never beginning them. All the people talking about pacifism saying it's a waste of time to study martial arts if one just pursues pacifism from the beginning are still violent in their thoughts and words with passive-aggression and condescending behavior. A martial student with a well-developed mind respects power and restrains himself or herself because they see the weakness, trauma, vulnerabilities, and need for healing in everyone else walking around as physical, emotional, and mental cripples who haven't learned to rise, stand, and walk with grace and dignity. "To determine a man's true character, look at him not when he is deprived of everything, but when he has power." - Abraham Lincoln

My injury delaying the planned future video demonstration:

It's good. The late GM said that the stick and knife fighting styles (and stick and knife fighting combined) were better than all the Chinese weapon forms he learned due to how pragmatic and simple they are.