How to Do Tai Sabaki (martial Arts Body Shifting)?
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How to perform Tai Sabaki. Martial artists can get out of the line of attack by using Tai Sabaki techniques. This is a general guide that can be used with many styles such as karate, aikido or jujitsu. Explanation will be on Hanmi, Irimi, Issoku Irimi, Tenkai, Tenkan, Irimi Tenkan & Hanta Tenkan. For the purpose of easy understanding, all technique will start from Migi Hanmi (Right Foot Forward Stance) & the martial artist is presumed to face north. For meaning of the terms used, see the tips column.\n\nSteps\n\n1. IRIMI (MOVING IN). From Migi Hanmi, slide your front foot diagonally (about 40 degrees to your right). Bring your back foot up to resume your stance. Your left foot will still be at the back of your right foot.\n2. ISSOKU IRIMI (STEPPING THROUGH). From Migi Hanmi, step through with the back foot, diagonally off the line of attack. Your back foot will now become your front foot. Bring the other foot in behind to resume your stance. When you have completed the movement, you should have changed your stance to Hidari Hanmi.\n3. TENKAI (PIVOT). From Migi Hanmi, pivot 180 degrees on the balls of your feet to end up facing the opposite direction. If at the starting position, you face north in Migi Hanmi, when you have completed the movement, you will be facing south and be in Hidari Hanmi.\n4. TENKAN (TURNING). From Migi Hanmi, step slightly forward and off the line of attack with the front foot. Turn in the direction of your back 180 degrees by bringing the other foot around behind. You will now be facing south and still in Migi Hanmi stance.\n5. IRIMI TENKAN (STEP THROUGH & TURN). From Migi Hanmi, perform Issoku Irimi, that is, step through with the back foot. Then pivoting on the ball of the new front foot, turn 180 degrees in the direction of your back. You should now be facing in the opposite direction and in the opposite stance (Hidari Hanmi) to when you started.\n6. HANTA TENKAN (STEP THROUGH & HALF TURN). From Migi Hanmi, perform Issoku Irimi that is step through with the back foot. Pivot on the ball of your front foot (left foot), then turn as if performing a tenkan but only 90 degrees (to your right). Your back should be facing west and you should now be facing off to the side of your original direction (your front body will now be facing east)in Hidari Hanmi (that is the opposite stance to when you started).\n7. Practice Tai Sabaki often to make the movements second nature. \n\n* MIGI HANMI = It is a ready or fighting stance whereby the right foot is in front and the left foot is behind the right foot. As an analogy, it is more or less similar to a fighting stance, small forward stance or sanchin stance in Karate.\n* HIDARI HANMI = It is the mirror of MIGI HANMI that is a ready or fighting stance whereby the left foot is in front and the right foot is behind the left foot.\n* Benefits of Tai Sabaki: If you are well versed in Tai Sabaki, you can avoid being hit without the need of blocking with your hand. You can also avoid or dodge a sword attack.
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Check out yogajournal.com and look up pigeon pose. Also, lying on your back, bend your right knee, placing the sole of the right foot on the floor. Then place the your left foot on your right bent knee, (left knee will stick out to the side) hold on to the back of the right thigh and draw your knee in towards your chest. Then do the opposite side. Hope this is clear! I am a yoga teacher and my piriformis is frequently sore, I have found these stretches to help.
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I use the www.faceonbody.com  I dont know of one that takes the whole body and moves.This program cost around $25. There may be others around.Check out this word in search and see what you come up with. The word to use in search is MORPHING. There is a www.morphing.com you can start there if you want.Hope this helps.
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assume the position and yell "HAA DOO GANNN" if you fail also try the japanese "KAAMAAMAHAA" basically the same but slightly differant hand moves...hope I helped..
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chi sao sticky hands a training exercise used to develop sensitivity in the art of wing chun
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place your feet so one foot is on the front part and the other on the back. You bend your knees and push off the back part, like jumping, and that's about it.
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Practice, practice, practice....The trick to ollying is shifting your weight back and forward very quickly while controlling the board with your feet.  \n\n1. Make sure you have some good grip tape on the front of your board and good shoes that will grab it.  This will help keep the board tracking with your front foot.  \n\n2. Place your front foot just forward of the middle of the board and your rear foot at the tip of the tail.  I always tilt my rear heel up so I have just my toes on the tail.  This gives me the maximum "kick".\n\n3. Gain control of your board.  I've found that it is actually a bit easier to have the board slowly rolling forward on a level surface -- not too fast though.  \n\n4. With your feet in the above position, bend your knees slightly with your shoulders bent slightly over your front foot.  Your weight should be over your front foot.  \n\n5. Stomp your rear foot down on the tail and shift your weight backwards.\n\n6. As the board "pops" up use your front foot to keep it from flying out from under you.  This is done by keeping your foot flush with the board.  In actuality the angle of the board will be parallel with the side of your foot.  You can tell when you are doing it right when you get a scuff mark on your shoe right around the outside your little pinky toe.  \n\n7. Land it!  Push the top of your front foot out against the board to rotate it back underneath you.  By starting with your weight slightly forward and keeping your front foot flush with board in flight, your momentum should carry you and your board forward at the same pace allowing you to land smoothly.  \n\nUntil you are ready to get advanced with kick flips and such, you will know you are doing it right when the board never seems to leave your feet, but just becomes a single fluid motion.  You might want to exaggerate these steps as you practice this technique to get an idea of how the mechanics work.\n\nGood luck!
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Do it from the toe, twist hips slightly, and place heels down. You have to do both feet at the same time, some find it easier with a slight jump others find it easier to start out with one foot as though when skating forward.
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Get in the sit-up position and instead of lifting your upper body, lift and lower your hips. Also do this pointing your toes into the ground and again flexing them towards the ceiling. Next try it lifting and lowering your hip on one side and switch to the other side.\n\nAnother work out is to lay down on your back and put your legs together and lift them into air and do crunches or to spread your legs wide and do crunches to the center and then the sides (reaching one hand towards the opposite leg) and finally doing crunches to the the center again while trying to touch your feet. \n\nI hope this makes sense, it's hard to explain without pictures.
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tai chi is a  slow motion kind of martial rituel.very relaxing,and good exercise.mouvement are slow which means harder = good for toning muscles
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If you want more ways to do them, we used to do the middle splits in acrobatics by lying on the ground on our backs with our butts and legs against the wall, then spreading our legs and trying to get a 180 degree angle. Gravity helped us out a lot. If that didn't work, our instructor would push down on both legs. It hurt, but it was a good type of hurt. It helped our flexibilities a lot. \n\nAlso, another way we did this in China was to be between two balance beams (or chairs, or anything off the ground that is stable) and do a split on the balance beams. With all your weight pressing down your body, it really helps flexibility. The problem with this exercise though, is that you really have to have the splits down already, and be able to do oversplits too. Otherwise, it won't really work. But once you get the splits, it shoudl be no problem for you. Good luck!
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do this:\n Lie on your back with your arms at your sides and your left heel on a Swiss ball, ankle flexed so your toes point toward your shin. Draw your right knee toward your chest. Keeping the knee tucked, slowly raise your hips by contracting your glutes so that just your head, shoulders, and arms are touching the floor. (Your body should form a straight line from your head to your left heel.) Lower your hips to the floor and repeat for the specified number of reps. Then switch positions so your right heel is on the ball and repeat.\n\n it works your abs but you can really feel it in your ass, difficult and effective.i got it out of a mens health issue
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First practice the back-bend on two legs, and then lift your foot up a little more each time so you can bend back. Then when your hands are on the floor push off with your leg on the ground so you are in handstand splits on whichever leg, it doesn't matter. Then try and lean forward a little so you can come down and you have then done it!\nTake care xxx.
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Stand with your arms out in front of you or at the back of your head and then bend at the knees as far as you can and then back up again. \n\nhttp://www.teamtrevois.org/forme/squat.jpg
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Climb stairs, kicking-oriented martial arts (Muay thai, taekwon do), any squatting motion (squats, lunges, etc)
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Lie on your back and put ur hands behind your head. touch one elbow to the opposite knee (have them meet in the middle) do 50 reps of this then switch to the otherside.
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Here's my routine:\n\n1) Toe touches with one leg crossed in front of the other (make sure knees aren't bent).  Hold for 20 seconds, and repeat 3 times.  Do this for the right leg and then the left leg forward.\n\n2) Leg stretches.  Facing forward, standing, spread your legs apart about 3-4 feet.  Bend down and stretch to your left foot, right foot, then center ground, as far as you can (but don't strain yourself), holding each time for 20 seconds.  Repeat 3 times.\n\n3) Trunk rotations.  Standing straight, with legs slightly separated, begin rotating your body, just at the waist, in a circular motion.  Complete 15 rotations in a clockwise motion followed by 15 rotations in a counter clockwise motion.\n\n4) Shoulder rotations.  Spread arms straight out, and rotate them in a forward circular motion, first as large of a circle as possible, followed by a smaller circle, and finally a very small circle.  Do for 15 seconds each circle size, and then repeat, doing it in a reverse motion.\n\n5) Neck rolls.  Standing the same way as previously, tilt your head to the side, and then rotate it in a clockwise circular motion, for 5 rotations.  Repeat in a counter clockwise motion.\n\n6) Hamstring stretch.  Sitting on the ground, pull both of your feet as close to your buttock as possible.  Then, try to get your knees as close to the ground as possible.  Hold for 20 seconds, and do for 3 repeats.\n\n7) Hurler's Stretch.  Lay on the ground, with one foot straight forward, and the other bent away from you (shaped like a V).  Lean forward and try to touch your toes, holding for a count of 20.  Repeat 3 times.  Then lean back, and try to get your bent leg to touch the ground, holding it for a count of 20, and repeating for 3 times.  Switch the leg you have forward and repeat.\n\n8) Calve stretch.  Lean against a wall with your feet out about 4-5 feet.  Keep 1 foot with the heel completely on the ground, and lean forward for 20 seconds.  Switch legs and repeat.  Do both legs for 3 repeats, and then do another 3 repeats while keeping both heels on the ground.\n\n9) Quad stretch.  While standing straight, grab one foot, and pull it back towards your buttock until you feel the muscles in your front thigh stretching.  Hold for 20 seconds for each leg, and repeat twice.\n\nWow!  That takes a lot longer to put into words than just doing it!  Remember to take it slowly when you're starting out, and to just enjoy your runs.  Doing some stretches after wards is also a good idea.  I hope the above helps, and I wish you success in your running endeavors.