尾関直人的shorts1

 尾関直人的shorts1

Sure. From the clip you showed me, he's teaching to relax the shoulders. That's pretty close to the Tai Chi idea of letting power come from the ground up instead of forcing with the arms. So the shoulders are relaxed, not slack, so that incoming force can be received through and sent down to the ground. But. Don't force the shoulders downward. Let them settle naturally. If you send me the actual short or a few screenshots from start to finish, I can walk through it movement by movement and map it to tai chi concepts.

Sure. From the screenshot, here's what I can see. The Japanese on screen says 「肩は脱力する」—"relax the shoulders." That's very close to the Tai Chi "sink the shoulders" idea. Then in the other screenshots, he goes further. He says 「距骨に乗り、地面からの反動を膝→股関節と通す」, "Stand on the talus and pass the ground reaction through the knee to the hip joint." Then 「そのまま骨盤→背骨→頭と力を通していく」, "Continue to send the force through the pelvis, spine, and head." And he contrasts that with 「固まっていると崩れてしまう」. "If you stiffen up, your posture or structure collapses." Meaning, when force comes in and you tighten locally, then that point buckles. But if you keep the body as a connected path with relaxation, the force can transmit through instead of breaking. And what I personally find really interesting is that emphasis on the talus. That’s quite anatomical. If you want, we can talk about where the talus is and what "standing on the talus" would mean for your tai chi stance.

Yes, so talus in Chinese is 「距骨」, and in Japanese it's 距骨 (kyokotsu). This is a really interesting bone. Basically, it's right between the shin bone and heel bone, so it's the key hub for transmitting body weight down into the foot and receiving force from the ground. So, when Ozeki says "stand on the talus", I don't think he's literally asking you to stand on a single bone. It sounds like he's emphasizing that you let your skeleton take the load in a clean line, instead of bracing with muscles. So this is similar to what you've been saying about "root power", but with a more anatomical explanation. And the other key is not using the shoulder to resist. If the joints line up and stay relaxed, the external force can go down to the ground, instead of being caught at the shoulder.

For your push hands, this is closer to "receive and transform" and "whole body power", but the talus itself is just one link in that chain. If you'd like, I can talk specifically about where you feel the pressure under the foot, heel, Yongquan (湧泉), ball of the big toe, etcetera. And that ties this back to your 70/30 stance.

Great. Let's tie it into Tai Chi stance. When you're standing, don't think "I must press here". Just feel a tripod under the foot: your heel, the base of the big toe, and the base of the little toe. Keep all three in contact without gripping. Think of the talus as being above that tripod, so your weight drops from the hip through the knee, through the talus, to that tripod. In your 70/30 stance, that 70% leg isn't just pressing harder into the heel. It's taking the load across the whole foot, with the knee tracking naturally and the hip joint released. Try this. Let someone gently push your arm. First tense your shoulder and feel where it jams. Then relax the shoulder and keep that feeling of "connected through to the foot". The point isn't to press back harder with the foot, but to let their force go into the ground through your structure. That sensation is closer to what he's pointing at.