Good breathing technique?

[Hawkeye]

What constitutes good breathing technique?

[cross]

Depends how technical you want to get with it.

 

In one way, if you dont pass out during whatever your doing thats pretty good technique.

 

In general the breathing technique i use when performing techniques, doing kata and sparring is:

 

Breath in through the nose, out through the mouth. Exhale sharply when performing a technique.

 

In saying that, there are lots of different breathing methods and im sure the other members of this forum will share some interesting ones with you. Your best bet is to find the one that works best for you and stick with that.

[STR33T GUY]

Breath in through the nose, out through the mouth. Exhale sharply when performing a technique.

That’s how I was taught.

 

The important thing to remember is that when breathing, it’s more important to get the CO2 out of your lungs than O2 in (little breaths in, big breaths out), that’s why breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth works.

 

And you want to breathe out while exerting yourself, like when you strike.

[krzychicano]

In my MA we are taught to bring out our KI or internal breathe. We breathe in the nose and out the mouth but when we breath in we do it from the stomach because that is where our KI comes from, there are three pressure points in a vertical line directly below the navel that represent our pre-natal KI and three above the navel which represent our post natal KI. It is taught that if we learn to harness our pre natal KI then we can have the power of 7 men where as if we only harness our post natal then we will have the power of 1 man. I tested this by doing some long distance running about 10 miles and found that I had alot more energy after the run when I breathed in through the stomach than when I did when I breathed in through the chest.

[STR33T GUY]

The important thing to remember is that when breathing, it’s more important to get the CO2 out of your lungs than O2 in

OR

In my MA we are taught to bring out our KI or internal breathe...

 

Modern medicine

 

Or

 

Ancient Chinese witch doctoring.

 

The method is the same, different explanation as to why it works though.

[Master Jules]

To keep this answer as basic as possible, I wont even get into the breathing techniques which are found in the multitudes of chi gung excercises.

 

Your breathing pattern should be in through the nose, and out through the mouth. You want to envision the air entering your nose, and following the path of the governing meridian line, which runs up the top of the skull, down the spine, under the genital area, and finally ending in the tandien.

 

You do not breathe by expanding the chest, but rather, by expanding the stomach. This pulls the diaphram down and fills the lungs.

 

There is also purpose to breathing in through the nose. The hair in the nostril gently warms the air, and helps filter out airborne contaminents.

 

Again.....thats the short version.

[AngelaG]

The important thing to remember is that when breathing, it’s more important to get the CO2 out of your lungs than O2 in

OR

In my MA we are taught to bring out our KI or internal breathe...

 

Modern medicine

 

Or

 

Ancient Chinese witch doctoring.

 

The method is the same, different explanation as to why it works though.

 

So what does it matter which way people choose to describe it? It's their choice, and whatever helps people remember to do the technique is a good thing.

 

Why are you so scared about people using the oriental explanations? Is it just because you don't understand them? It's a personal choice - no one tells people using MWM terms that they should use TCM, so why do people think it's acceptable the other way around?

[STR33T GUY]

So what does it matter which way people choose to describe it? It's their choice, and whatever helps people remember to do the technique is a good thing.

Because one explanation gives a truer understanding of how and why something works and the other explanation doesn’t.

[AngelaG]

So what does it matter which way people choose to describe it? It's their choice, and whatever helps people remember to do the technique is a good thing.

Because one explanation gives a truer understanding of how and why something works and the other explanation doesn’t.

 

And who appointed you the explantion police? I still don't see why you seem so threatened by it? As far as I am concerned they both make absolute sense, but that's because I look into TCM. Keep an open mind!

[STR33T GUY]

And who appointed you the explantion police?

I’m expressing my opinion. I never said that you can’t.

I still don't see why you seem so threatened by it?

I’m not and I don't see why you insist that I am.

As far as I am concerned they both make absolute sense, but that's because I look into TCM.

Well I believe in science and you believe in mysticism.