Ritsu Zen is the foundation in Taikiken training.
The basic idea is standing like a tree, to devellop a holistic force extending in all directions. Ritsu Zen is balancing with nature, tuning your natural inborn qualities.
Every year MartriX organizes Taikiken workshops on a beautiful location in the Czech republic.
The theme is Natural Tuning, Taikiken training as it traditionally is meant to be, in free nature. MartriX follows an old Taoist concept: Train, Eat and Drink with friends till your heart is content.
Shaolin is realy an amazing place, In Dharma hall where we stayed for a while, they have around 8000 students. For some the days start extra early with some individual stretching.
In the Summer palace in Beijing you can see people training many traditional internal Martial arts.
In this clip a very friendly man practices his Xingyiquan.
The Taiki dance (Taiki health dance) or shadow boxing is an excelent way to improve you persistence and sharpness.
Each time the dance is different according to your mode and needs.
There is a lot of young talent training in Shaolin.
When they are lucky, they will play in a wushu movie or travel around the world with one of the Shaolin groups.
It is known that legendary fighting monks of the famed Shaolin Temple used granite padlocks as a training tool to enhance their kung fu fighting skills. Padlocks are rectangular looking kettlebells also known as Chinese Kettlebells.
Bamboo Kuning experts releasing force at a beautiful black beach on east Bali. Balinese are very spiritual in nature and are used to work with the forces of nature.
Normal Balinese people see this form of excerting strenght as a form of white magic
