BUILDING THE SUIT AKA SILKREELING STRENGTH. BASICS.


In a sense, strengthening the suit can be imagined as using a full-body dance-leotard, but you have to imagine that there are small muscles built into the fabric of the suit. Generally speaking, the imaginary muscles layers/sheets go in directions along the front and undersides of the body for contraction and along the back and upper/outer sides for expanding and lifting the body.

To engage the muscle sheet of the suit, the suit needs to be slightly stretched (for a no-slack connection) and it helps to then inhale with a reverse breath and sort of inflate the body/suit so that there is indeed no slack. With no slack, the fabric of the whole body's "suit" can be used to twist an object in the hands. Even the suit around the legs is an important area to twist as an additive force to the whole suit.

The general rule, using a twist like in the video below (where he breaks the limb) is to take out the slack in the suit (so notice the position he gets into) and inhale, pulling in the suit and inflating the pressure in the body (don't forget the kidney area). When you can feel the whole body's 'fabric' connected together, try to turn the hands only with the suit of the body, not arm muscles, as you exhale and squeeze only the suit's sheet-muscle layer.

It will take a few months for the connections to develop and for the directions to make full sense, but go at it with persistence, not muscle ... and simply accept that it is going to take some time to develop. When someone is practicing with a Taiji Bang, as in the second part of the video, it's the same process of training the suit. Don't use any muscle: focus on twisting and winding the 'suit' ... but always include the legs, buttocks, and dantian/waist as the main drivers of the imaginary "suit".

https://vimeo.com/517641335

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