using chi to improve jumping ability

[chinamein]

I have a book called "Chi: the Power Within" by Geoff Pike in which he claims to have witnessed leaps of 2 to 2.5 metres by men at Chin Wu school in Manila's Chinatown. Ever since reading this I have become very interested in these matters. I have heard of the art of qinggong and researched on it but I've only come to dead ends and realize that it is a lost art,if not even a fantasy art. But what I read in that book above, I do believe.

Is it possible for me to use chi to be able to jump higher? Or should I ask, would it be possible, after having attended one of sifu Kit's chi kung courses and having learned how to develop my chi, to manipulate that chi to make me jump higher?

[ryanberg]

Hi Chinamein,

Welcome to the forum

I think Sifu Wong recently discussed this art in one of his question and answer series on the main site. You should do a search for it and read it if you haven't already.

I don't think Sifu teaches how to use chi to jump higher at any of his courses, and I don't think it would be wise to use what you learned at the course to practise this art on your own. You would probably need to find a master who would be willing to teach and observe your progress personally to make sure you were doing things properly.

However, if you are genuinely interested in using your chi to do this, a good start would be taking a course from Sifu or one of the other Shaolin Wahnam instructors...as the skills you would learn would definitely be a prerequisite to using your chi to jump higher. And you might find out along the way that chi can do far more wonderous things than help you jump high

Ryan

[George]

http://shaolin.org/general/question-index.html#ArtofLightnessqinggong

[chinamein]

I don't think Sifu teaches how to use chi to jump higher at any of his courses, and I don't think it would be wise to use what you learned at the course to practise this art on your own. Ryan

So if I learned to develop my chi directly from master wong and then practiced developing my chi for some while on my own, would I not be able to send that chi through the pathways of my legs? To better describe what I'm trying to say- Like the art of iron palm where you send chi through your arms and out of your hands to create a powerful blow, couldn't I use this process in the opposite and send that chi down through my legs and out of my feet to create a powerful jump

[chris3212]

I think you send you chi up through your body so it makes you lighter. I may be wrong.

Best wishes,

Chris

[Buddhasfist1]

Jumping Higher!

ChinaMien, forum

I have a copy of Si-Gung Wong's book calle the Art of Chi kung, towards the end of the book he describes that one of his own masters has had this ability, and has shown it to one of his other Masters, however He concludes that although it is not impossible, Master Wong himself knows of such a practice and Describes it in a basic form of only knowing how the exercises are done to gain this ability, however not wittnessing it himself, he does not know, nor understand it more fully, I myself am interested in learning the technique, I do know that you must wear weights on the feet, in daily life as well as work, and you must make a hole in the ground (Note: that it is small: maybe a foot or less, then you would scope out two cup fulls a day, to further your training), and jump in and out ten times, now as you progress, later with jumping as well as Chi kung, you would then use your chi to push you upward, gaining the ability to jump higher! This technique I will be discussing with my own Sifu to see if I could progress to this type of training, however I feel It would be a thing to at least practice on so as to Help give Si-Gung Wong some insight into the possibility of Training. however further study is a must! Amitoufo!

[George]

From Sifu Wong's Q&A:

Strapping weights to one's legs is not the first stage. Weights are not essential, but very helpful. How much weight should be used, depends on your ability and mode of training. But if you are uninformed about qinggong training, it is inadvisable for you to strap weights, or even attempt qinggong training on your own -- unless you do not mind risking injury to your sexual organs.