CNXRegie
Visionary
Platinum Level
The testimonials from world-class players like Damian Salas, along with the instructions on these disciplines, were very informative, and I'll make sure to incorporate them into my game. Thank you, bro.Hello Regie, it's a pleasure to talk with you brother.
Well, I'm going to explain. Chi Kung and Taichi are in themselves two different disciplines but they go hand in hand.
Chi Kung is based on Chinese body medicine. It is based on mental and physical concentration and relaxation through breathing.
In the main movements there is muscle relaxation based on stretching, then there is a process of mental concentration, where you slowly visualize all your body organs from the toes of your feet through the entire body to the last corner of the skull, and Then come the body exercises, where based on your mental visualization you are doing exercises linked to the pancreas, stomach, blood vessels, joints, heart, etc. to achieve positive energy in the healing of your body.
You should consult it, but I really don't think it affects people with heart problems, I think on the contrary. Since the exercises are so gentle, and do not require enormous effort, such as going to a gym, for example, then if you have these heart problems, I believe that they would be essential for your health.
In the case of Taichi, this is a martial art. But it is not a contact martial art, rather it is a defense martial art that simulates many situations in which you could see yourself faced in daily life, and that in turn with very simple movements you could solve them.
In turn, as in Chi Kung, the movements are based on breathing and are very smooth. They do not require a remarkable physical effort.
Both in Chi Kung and in Taichi, the central basis is to de-stress and control anxiety, which today are fundamental factors in the fast-paced world in which we live and which causes our health to deteriorate day by day.
For my taste, Chi kung, Taichi and yoga are 3 disciplines that anyone should do at least 2 to 3 times a week, to improve their daily routines.
In an interview with Damian Salas, my compatriot WSOP 2020 world poker champion, he exposes all the benefits he obtained in performance for playing poker based on yoga.
If you have to make almost constant decisions in daily life, be it with children, family, work, etc. Imagine the number of decisions you have to make in a poker tournament. In a typical tournament of 5 to 6 hours, and supposing that you get to good instances of the tournament, you are dealt no less than 300 to 400 hands, in which you have to see cards, table positions, ranks, position in the tournament, your Big blinds, and in turn the confrontational hands in which you should see if you open raise, 3 bet, 4 bet, all in, calls, limps, in addition to live watch how your rivals play, and online take notes of players, hands etc.
Poker is not a game of, for example, I have 1010 and this hand is all in, no, the analysis is a little more complex than that.
That is precisely why, if you said that only in a game of luck, and well, the one with the luckiest could reach an important final. But you generally see players who always make it to final instances. And you wonder, could it be that this human being is so lucky??? and the answer is simply NO.
Behind this supposed luck, there is a huge process of studying the game, visualizing hands, practicing, studying the hands you play, etc., in addition to the physical/mental preparation that goes into sitting down for many hours in a tournament, having a enormous level of concentration, and the mental exhaustion that can mean sleeping badly, eating badly, instead of concentrating on the game, focus only on a hand that you played badly, or that the villain was supposedly lucky, and others.
That is why everyone agrees that meditation and these disciplines that I name, the most common being yoga, are essential in this process of adaptation to the game.
A big hug Regie, and I hope I have been able to answer your questions regarding these extraordinary disciplines that improve our quality of daily life.
A big hug and blessings brother for you and your family.
Below I leave some videos, if possible translate them into your language, or look for them on youtube in your language that surely there must be about Chi Kung and Taichi.
And in turn I leave you the interview that our coach from Chile Fabian Pichara did to our world poker champion Damian Salas, I hope you can translate it because it is really very interesting.
Interview to Damian Salas
