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.You can further draw no less.the energy up the spine by progressively Once you have finished the fook saurelaxing and generating the vacuum within you rotate the hand to a tan sau, presence theeach vertebra from the tailbone up to the ball in the palm again and then huen to theskull.Holding the lifting feeling in the wu sau as before.On the second and thirdcrown of your head throughout this exercise repetitions you want to maintain theis essential.The drawing up of energy from attention on the drawing root rather than justthe ground should be done by drawing it into intending down, and maintain the flow ofthe bones of the feet and through the marrow energy from the root up the spine into theof the leg bones.When it gets to the head.This was started with the first fook sauhipbones you will draw it into the Dan-Tien and should be maintained throughout thealong with a drawing intention from your three repetitions.Upon completing the finalgonads.This enables the sexual energy wu sau, you can relax the focus for ahoused there to be added to the root energy moment as you change to normal speed toto fill the Dan-Tien and then flow up to the do the side palm and thrusting palm andchest area to be drawn into your fook sau chamber the left hand.hand.Once the Dan-Tien is filled, and the Repeat the same process on the rightconnection is made with the fook hand the side.However, with the right tan sau youroot energy can then be divided, half going should maintain the focus attention on theto the fook hand and the rest going to the drawing root.This will add the yang raisingtailbone and up the spine.A gentle root energy to your hand as you focus oncontraction of the sphincter muscle is building the ball in the palm.You shouldhelpful in directing the chi into the tailbone.keep the wave flow going up from the rootThe vibration within the body will once you establish it, focusing it within theintensify during the fook sau phase, do not arm and hand and drawing it up the spine aslet in get away from you and start causing well.As the vibration intensifies you canyou to jerk and jump around.Focus it within begin to focus it deep into the bones bythe abdominal area and allow it to fill the drawing or intending it into them.This alsochest, arms, and head.Relaxation and helps calm the vibration if it gets too strong.36Copyright © Scott Baker 2000 Upon completion of the form you and intention upon.This is why the Sil Numshould feel a deep peacefulness and calm.Tao exercise is a very advanced exercise andYou should also feel energized; your mind assumes the practitioner has alreadyshould not be tense but relaxed and acquired significant energy skills.This issurprisingly quiet.It may be a little fatigued also why the Sil Num Tao boxing form isfrom the prolonged intense focus required, considered an advanced form rather than abut your body should feel invigorated.beginning form.If you have ever heard theStanding for some time can tire the legs a stories of Grandmaster Yip Man taking anlittle at first, but as you practice regularly hour to complete the first form, you willyour body will soon become conditioned so now understand a little better why it took sothat this is not a permanent condition.At long and what he was doing for that hour.first some people experience muscular pain You can also see that this exercise containsin the shoulders from holding the arm in the deep aspects of all the precedingposition so long.This will also stop once exercises combined into one.Once you haveyou are conditioned better.The important completed the last of the slow wu sauthing is to relax, try to maintain the position motions you should perform the remainderbecause there is an important energy reason of the form at normal speed with thefor the postures and techniques, but do not releasing skills in each motion taught in Biudo it by tensing.You are better off being Tze.This is very important; the form is anslightly out of position yet remaining entire unit of Chi-kung and performing onlyrelaxed than being in position but tense.the slow portion is only a piece of theexercise.By releasing through the remainderSummary of Focus Points of the form you will flush out the chi andThe following focus points are rebalance your system.Therefore the rest ofaccumulative, each point is added to the the form is essential and should bepreseding points.preformed with dynamic releasing skills.Set up the stance, focus on the sinking yinroot.Tan sau, focus on a ball of energy in thepalm, pooling chi in the elbow, yang raisingwaves, chi flow from elbow to palm, chiflow from root to the elbow.Wu sau, strong focus on raising yang chi,chi flow from hand through the bones intothe elbow, from the elbow up to the spine.Fook sau, Focus on the yang raising wavesup through the bones into the Dan Tien,divide it to go up the spine through the tailbone, and simultaneously up the front of thebody to the solar plexus, out along the centerline into the fook sau hand, through thebones to the elbow, up into the spine whereit joins with the spine chi and washes overthe brain.As you can see there are multiplesimultaneous things to focus your attention37Copyright © Scott Baker 2000 Chapter 5Learning to Move with ChiAs important as the energy root is, itdoes one little good if he is unable to movewith it.A dynamic or moving root isessential because fighting is the art ofmoving.The next progressive step from thestationary rooting skills is to make themdynamic.I remember seeing an old Tai ChiPractice in the parkmaster demonstrate just how powerful it isto move your body with your energy.HeAs I visited with many differentwas in his 80s, and had practiced themasters of Tai Chi I found that I had muchcharacteristic slow movements of Tai Chiin common with them.I became friendlyfor most of his life.But I didn t see howwith an elderly gentleman named Zhangmuch the energy was moving his old frailShuji who could speak some English andbody until he moved quickly.As part of awho enjoyed taking me around.It seemed hedemonstration he showed the classical Taiwanted to show me the real high masters ofChi form and then to help dispel the mythkung fu because he called me frequentlythat Tai Chi is only done slowly he made astating that he had arranged for me to meetseries of very quick turns, much like thewith this famous teacher or that famousstance turning in the Chum Ku form.Hismaster.body whipped around from one side to thenext, yet he stayed perfectly balanced andstill.I knew even a younger man could notturn like that, and here was a frail lookingold master doing it, how? He wasn t usinghis body to move his energy; he was usinghis chi to move his body! In fact while in theparks in China during the early morninghours I regularly observed Tai Chi beingpracticed at a rather medium to fast pace.Ofcourse the classic slow Tai Chi forms wereScott Baker with his friend Zhang Shujialso regularly practiced, but it was notuncommon to see the forms practicedFor me he was a God sent, I always wentquickly.with him and he often talked the master intocomparing skills with me.I think he wantedto have them show me up, but each time hebecame more impressed with my kung fuskills
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