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Training: Ball-Rolling

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Wun Yuen Kao
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Table / Ball circling

Varigated Ball Rolling [table-practice] Exercise:
    混元
 
  The method includes: a ball, a table, and an exercise.
+ the ball can be of any size or material
+ the table can be of any material, but usually is about waist height.
+ the exercises performed on the ball are simple and complex circles:
一杰混元功 Yi Jie Hun Yuan Gong
 
  The pictures shown, are of the Hong Kong movie actor, Kam Tung, who was also a student of Chen YikYan. [His video clips are viewable on YouTube] My third LHPF teach 'Moon', met him and observed his ability with this practice method; he said he observed Kam Tung roll then project a wooden ball off the table, and 'shoot' the ball across the courtyard of his garden-home to a wall where the ball then rolled 'up' the courtyard wall. Moon also said he observed Kam Tung perform publically and performed a similar 'fa-jing' power, by projecting a demostrator off the platform.
Ball-rolling exercise
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Kam Tung series-1
Ball-rolling Exercise
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Kam Tung series-2
   Alternatives to table-ball rolling/lifting exercise, is taiji-qigong-ruler exercise, which although normally done with a stick-ruler, can also be done with a ball.  A ball, floating in water or even a bag of water can be practiced with. A ball supported and suspended on a string is another training aid. The reciprocal to 'embracing' an object is 'expanding' to an object, this is done with a loop-circle of  bamboo or similar material; this is often associated with WingTsun-training, but is neither unique nor exclusive to that exercises origins or development. The limitations of training methods are your own imagination.

References:
Using a Ball to Learn Tai Chi, George Tarbay of DeKalb, IL
T'ai Chi Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 6  December 2001 [Wayfarer Publications]
'writes about a technique he has found to teach students to be aware of the Tai Chi energy ball. With the aid of photographs, he shows how it can be used to position the body correctly while doing the form.
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