Posting lessons

I have been thinking on weather to post or not to post lessons of gong fu on here. I don't want to post stuff that I can't give proper direction on, but I do want to keep a public record of some of the cool stuff that I teach. I have hence decided to post the cooler exercises on here that I get people to do.

Exercise one. Taught 四月十八日， This is an exercise in breathing, or not breathing... Lay on your back, hands by your sides and breathe out, don't push the air out of you lungs but just relax and let the air leave your lungs. Then put your arms above you head and let your lungs rise and fill with air without breathing in. Bring your arms down again and let your body move to push the air out. Do this for a minute and just relax and try and let your arms breathe for you. Then stand and try to again open you lungs and let the air pass in and out. You can also lean forward to get this affect. As you go forward you squeeze your digestive organs up into your lungs space and push air out (if this freaks you out (小吗), your just squeezing you belly to push the air, no organs involved really). Now try to get a similar effect by punching forward and backward at the same time twisting your waist not moving your hips. If you are able to do this for 2 minutes without passing out or breathing using your normal method, (stomach or ribs) then try to through normal punches (just forward) and get the same result, not having to breathe normally. If you are able to do this the you should be able to stop breathing while someone else breathes for you, by say punching your stomach (through a pad is best). If you can do this... Then if you are doing exercise, forms or kata or patterns or what ever else you do you should be able to minimize the effort you exert by coordinating your breathing with you activity so that you don't have to breathe actively but rather passively. This conserves your energy and better enables yourself to respond to sudden changes in pace by the change it's self. A reaction by definition will be slower and give you a greater chance of loosing your breath and then having to recover.

This exercise done properly will let you do exercise for a lot longer before you blow your self out. It is also a good defense against being hit as you're better prepared to deal with the impact.