This simple exercise set can be used to energize your hands and your whole body in the morning, or at the beginning of your training session. It is a chi kung hand massage set, which draws chi into your hands, and then distributes it through all the meridians which end in your fingers. It also stimulates all the acupressure points in your palms and fingers. It is very important that during the exercise you keep your feeling inside the place that is currently being massaged. This will draw chi into the part of your hand that is being massaged. Remember this is a chi massage. Don't try to force chi, and don't try to visualize anything. Just feel it.
This set will improve the circulation in your hands. It will also clean the chi channels in the hands.
This chi kung set also has a martial arts application. It develops hand and wrist strength. It stretches hand muscles and ligaments. It also develops pushing and splitting power. It also teaches you how to perform palm pushing strikes and chops from a very short distance (less than the length of your palm). The splitting force strikes output the full force at the beginning of the movement, so you really don't need any distance at all.
The reason why the arms need to extended but rounded, is because this is the furthest point in which you can output the full force while maintaining proper body alignment. It is the most difficult position from which you could attempt to output force. No one really expects you to be able to output force from that hand position anyway. Which is precisely why you should be able to output force form that exact position. It adds fun to fighting.
There are 3 instructional videos.
The first one shows the whole set and explains how the set should be performed.
The second one shows massage closeup.
The third one shows martial applications of this set.
Hand Chi massage gives exceptional enjoy. Recently ireland start providing this types of massage.
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