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Name required. Follow Following. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. Loading Comments Umm…OK, so swiftly moving on then…! What kind of training do you do these days?
I simplify it by making it more powerful, sharper and professional. For example, you want to punch and kick whilst getting the attack more organised and calculated, the timing more refined and the distance perfect. The kind of exercises I do include things like cardio such as running, short distance running, sprinting, short burst training skipping, kicking and punching workouts, push ups and squats.
I use light weights for high reps. Yes I do inner qigong to look after the body which is akin to looking after your car and putting in the oil. In the same way, you look after your organs. So, after conditioning training with the metal brush for example I do the inner qigong. The most difficult is stamina training, you have to keep going. That involves a lot of willpower. I use sticks and the iron brush for regular day to day training.
The body is strong. In martial arts you can break things by punching and kicking, you break things that can be broken. Conditioning means you have the stamina to handle pain, the stamina to do real things.
Top level qigong masters practice and make their organs really strong. Much of this stems from a positive mind. Benefit yourself by making your organs stronger. This technique builds up inner organ strength, resistance and endurance.
The best exercise for me is to use the brush to hit my body, it really helps and you can do it no matter how old you are. I have injuries all the time but because I do qigong, it gives good circulation so I recover quickly.
Injuries usually mean swelling and inflammation resulting in a lack of blood flow. However if your blood flows vigorously you heal faster and the injury disappears quickly. Take for instance young people who jump around everywhere, they get injured but for example, a skin wound heals in 2 days.
For old people it takes much longer, why? Because their circulation is too sluggish. A shin injury which might normally take most people weeks to heal takes me 2 or 3 days.
I recommend that people eat what works best for them since everyone is different. For me, the morning meal is the most important because I train intensively, so I eat quite a bit to get started with less at lunch things like brown bread, apples and bananas and little at dinner.
What do you like to do to recover from a particularly strenuous period of physical activity? What do you recommend for those leading an especially physical and demanding lifestyle? Some people like bankers for example, are stressed out.
They should do something like a heavy workout, something exciting. People are different, but you need good conditioning. Make your body healthy, then you can attain your goals by testing your progress on multiple levels eg. Positivity and happiness go together.
Negativity brings inertia and inaction. A positive mind makes you realise you have to do things, to do your work, whereas a negative mindset is defeatist, procrastinating and complacent. Such a person tends to blame others, and make excuses. If you end up in hospital everything stops! Rather study martial arts benefits with discipline. Life is very simple. When you eat, eat, when you sleep, sleep, when you train, train.
Your biggest enemy in life is yourself, you are your own biggest enemy. For example everyone is lazy, including me. These are incisive insights reaching some deep marrow, Shifu, can you please tell us more? Your confidence comes from your actions, not your thinking! The only thing that scares me is not being prepared. Thank you Shifu Yan Lei for your kind participation in this interview, it has been most enlightening. We wish you all the very best in spreading the uplifting Shaolin message and your upcoming projects!
Tags: friends of kfk interview Shifu Yan Lei. Raj, a wing chun student, enjoys spending time studying various aspects of the martial arts, from theory to practically applied skills. He enjoys interviewing prominent and dedicated martial artists from all over the world, who have something inspiring and stimulating to share. I was constantly hungry. I was very naughty as a child; always skipping school and getting into street fights. He began his martial arts life at the age of fourteen when he travelled to the other side of China to train in the Shaolin Temple in Henan province.
But looking back I feel happy. Temple life gave me a strong focus. I stopped fighting on the street and trained every day, honing my Shaolin skills. His Master, the Shaolin Abbot, Shi Yong Xin gave him the name Lei — meaning thunder — and he became a 34th generation fighting disciple.
When he was eighteen he travelled to different Kung Fu schools to learn additional Kung Fu and Qigong skills from famous masters.
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