How to practice shoulder opening and hip opening in Tai Chi:
1. Shoulder opening
Put your palms together and hold them up. The toes are also the same and they are gently grasping the ground. The fingers and toes are also the same, they are gently stretched and supported.
You need to make both shoulders collapse, feel the force hitting your fingertips, and be able to pop out and then bounce back automatically, then the effect will be achieved. And from the appearance point of view, the whole arm will feel like shaking. From the sound point of view, the shoulder will make a "bang bang" sound. It is necessary to accumulate more in quantity, and from quantitative change to qualitative change, this is very critical.
2. Open the hips
Always keep moving forward and backward, and avoid twisting left and right. There are three prerequisites for shifting the center of gravity that must not be violated: first, fix the knees and feet, second, stand upright, and third, the running route of the crotch should be close to a straight line. When stepping horizontally, the feet should be aligned, and when stepping vertically, the angle should be controlled. When stepping horizontally to the left and right, the toes of both feet should be in a straight line.
Extended information:
1. Practicing Tai Chi requires the crotch to be open, round support, virtual support, and virtual support. In essence, it is a requirement for the hip bones. If you want to open the crotch, the crotch must be open. The roots must be loosened and rounded. The crotch is not opened, and the crotch is shaped like a herringbone.
2. When you first practice, try to relax the muscles of your buttocks and waist. The abdominal muscles under the ribs should be relaxed so that the weight falls on the hip bones. When performing exercises, you only need to pay attention to the rotation of the hips to drive the rotation of the waist.
3. The internal support and external wrapping of the lower limbs all depend on the looseness and roundness of the hip joints, and the flexibility of the upper and lower limbs depends entirely on the ties of the hips. There is a lot of parallel rotation of the waist and hips in the boxing posture, and the force is generated when the rotation speed of the hips accelerates. All you have to do is relax and avoid the temptation.