Scott Meredith

Packing Supercharge Your Hands

The Inner Hand

If your mind is not projected into your hands, even ten thousand techniques will be useless.-Yamaoka Tesssh

Dozens of incredibly effective methods for streaming the internal power of 'ki' and through your hands, for martial arts, healing, calligraphy, or any other purpose.

Scott Meredith has trained intensively in a wide variety of Western and Asian martial arts and meditative disciplines for over forty years. He is the author or co-author of numerous fiction and non-fiction works related to martial arts and spirituality.

Contents

1 Introduction
2 Energy basics
ARC-Accumulate, rebound, catc
Points, meridians, models, and methods
3 ARC I: Accumulate
Drop shoulder protocol: Heel kick
Electric leg: Santishi I
Stationary splitting: Santishi II
4 ARC: Rebound
Golden chicken
Crescent kick alternation
Dragon jump
5 ARC III: Catch
Rail work
Mudra
Implement work
Energy grip protocol
6 Finishing school
Golden chicken redux
Stationary splitting redux
7 Relaxation: Master vs. method
Coming attractions
Past attractions… (meer)

PENG energy in the tai chi tradition.
The hard wave and the soft wave.
7 essential tai chi poses
The relaxation protocol.
Zhangzhuang standing energy meditation system.
The circle slice sword drill for energy amplification.
New translations & analysis of tai chi source documents.

Scott Meredith is the author of: Let Every Breath: Secrets of the Russian Breath Masters, JUICE Radical Taiji Energetics.

Jeremy Ray illustrator.

I've been hammering away at Tai Chi for nearly two decades now alongside some other serious martial arts training. I've seen the martial art side of the practice as well as the therapeutic side and everything in between. Scott's book (along with the companion DVD) is easily the clearest teaching on the subject when it gets down to the brass tacks of actually building and experiencing the internal energy of Tai Chi.

I'll grant that his views of Tai Chi's ultimate goal seems to fly in the face of mainstream Tai Chi practice. From what I've seen, that tends ruffle a few feathers. The language he uses is certainly more blunt and direct than the ubiquitous vagaries that surround most Tai Chi practice. But that may well be the best reason to dig in here. Everything you've tried up until now hasn't really given you what you're looking for (or you wouldn't still be on the prowl for the secret). So it's time to take a fresh approach (not that there's anything really new here since he grounds his reasoning within the teachings of the Tai Chi Classics coupled with his own experiences). Instead of subtle hints and vague promises about where Tai Chi can take you, Scott's book gives you play-by-play descriptions of exactly how to build the energy and the kinds of experiences you'll have along the way.

The real test of validity, however, is simply to try out his method to see if it works. That is precisely what I have been doing over the past few months. After working with these guidelines, I have both felt and recognized some of the various energies that before were only batted around in conversation as so much abstract theory. And I can personally feel how these energies continue to build for greater effects-Robert Gardner.

I was a skeptic, which led me here. After years of martial arts and tai chi training, I had become disatissfied with the answers found...Too many vague and cryptic references, and teachers with outlandish claims that could not back it up. So, I went on journey that took me to random parks with sometimes crazy people, and to some of the most renowned schools with big-name masters in search of what the classics always referenced. And not just 1 simple class...But, in depth as far as I could be allowed, and I still do.

The author happened to be #2 on my journey, agreeing to meet me (a complete stranger) in the park. After reading JUICE, and then pushing in-person; I was amazed by the skill he had, which had felt different from any previous experiences. BUT, I still did not want to believe, so I continued on the journey. Now, a few years later; I circle back around and find the methods described in this book, companion DVD, and within JUICE to be the BEST overall instruction for Taiji and internal energetics all of which have been felt first-hand. Not only that, but the author has had no problem showing up in-person, with anyone who is interested.

This is NOT a martial arts-combat book, it is a method to help the user find, experience, and train these otherwise elusive energetics. It is for a personal training; or, attribute training that you can build into any practice. The language used is modern and relevant, making it an easy read. The DVD further illustrates exactly how to use these methods. He also references and translates the classics (being fluent in Chinese) to make the connection easy for the reader. Those custom translations alone, are worth the money. And for references, the author is indeed fluent in Chinese, a long-time, student of Ben Lo, an author and long time senior student in Systema, xing yi, a boxer, a yogi, I Chuan, and more.

So, my advice to the prospective reader is: Read it. With the companion DVD as well. Then, really give the methods a shot and actually TRAIN it. You will be amazed by the results, IF you actually do the practice.-Bramos

I read Mr. Meredith's book JUICE a year ago and thought it was very clever and informative. When I checked him out on YouTube it became clear to me that he really lives a marital arts/tai chi life and is a reliable resource on the internal energy and the finer points of tai chi and qigong. Now I have read this book and also purchased and viewed his video 'PENG-Surfing the Soft Wave' and together all of these together with my own tai chi practice are giving me a cluster of information that is helping me move a little further along in my understanding of things.

As everyone knows, internal energy is a tremendously difficult topic to communicate about and also, as everyone knows, there are plenty of 'experts' out there who either make impossible claims and/or know something useful but can not get it across. Plenty of 'masters' whose offerings are a waste of money and border on 'magic.' I know, I've spent a lot of money on them and have been disappointed.

I think Scott Meredith is not one of those questionable masters with little to say but is a guy who really knows what he is talking about and most of the time gets it across very well. If he were a teacher in my area, I would seek him out. I have gotten a lot from his books and video though, as he says, we are all an experiment of one and he can only suggest and guide but one has to run their own experiments to make any headway. He's a good guide though sometimes he is beyond where I am now and I can't get it yet but I have confidence in him and get enough of his information to keep at it.

If you think there is something to the internal energy business of tai chi, I think Scott Meredith, Gene Burnett, Michael Buhr, Larry Costner, Michael Mayer, Damien Mitchell, Arthur Rosenfield and Linda Lehrhaupt are the experts I would recommend to you to check out. These are some of the less heralded folks that I think live the tai chi life style, know something and can communicate about it.

Note: Four stars because I am still working on Mr Meredith's information that is plenty deep and requires some work. Likely to be a five star rating the more I get into it.-zunderzee

Contents

Dedication
Notes
Disclaimer
Introduction
Tai chi and peng energy
Song of peng
Energetic architecture
Energy hotspots
Practice principles
The circle-slice sword drill
7 poses: Structural basics
Insubstantial and substantial leg
7 poses: Relaxation protocol
Feeling the hard wave
7 poses: Zhangzhuang overview
7 poses: The microreactivation method
The final principle: Waist activation & cloud hands
Why?
The graphic tai chi classic
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Resources… (meer)

Juice is the Radical Inner Power of chinese Taiji

Which feels better, crack cocaine or Taiji energy? Why is spirit power (not physical structure) Taiji's true engine of mastery? Whether you're a seasoned player or merely Tai-curious, Juice will hand you the hidden master keys to Taiji (Chinese T'ai Chi Ch'uan).

The brute level of internal energy.
Taiji's missing basic for absolute energy permeation.
The ARC of steel for Taiji's full body activation.
The surge and the state.
The real purpose and method of Taiji push hands.
The tailor's touch for supreme sensitivity.
Yinjection and Yinfusion for power emission.
The shell and its spike, slide, slurp and nudge power concepts.
Taiji's energy meta-tool: the Chinese straight sword.
...and much more.

Juice isn't yet another photo-sequence textbook, illustrating a set of dance poses. Juice doesn't merely parrot the arcane Chinese philosophy from which Taiji emerged. This book lays out the specific mental 'settings' that super charge any style of Taiji and explains how to use Taiji for personal energy cultivation-with effects that anyone can experience immediately. Whether you currently practice Taiji or you're just thinking of getting into it, you should read Juice before taking another step.

Scott Meredith is the co-author of: Let Every Breath: Secrets of the Russian Breath Masters and author of Tai Chi PENG Root Power Rising

Contents

Dedication
Notes
Disclaimer
Preface
Fable
Chapter 1 What, who, why
What?
Who?
Why?-Health?, ; Power?; Survival sensitivity:' Pleasrue!
Chapter 2 Theory & Practice
Theory-Pure theoretics; What actually matters-Energy hot spots; Energetic typlogy
Practice-the ARC; Relax; Ten blocks to taiji development; The missing basic
The ARC of steel-Accumulate; Rebound; Catch
Seven stages of ARC training
Fully activated body
More mental stuff-Believe; Notice; Persist
Chapter 3 Form
Postures-Self-checking; The razor's edge; Standing world
The fallacies-The Kriya fallacy; The theatric fallacy; The structural fallacy; The calisthenic fallacy
The ARC accelerants-Feet (Earth); Body (Man)-Let it be Spotlight illumination; Contour surfing; Painted legs; Head (Heaven)
Movement-Principles; Sloshing; Cat step; Turn and kick; Crescent kick
The four facets of energy-State-1; Surge-1; Surge-2; State-2
Breathing-Basic practice
Chapter 4 Push
Mindset-Unballancing; The loss investment prize game; Fixed footwork; Push hands improv
Tension-tension typology; The trigger effect; Partner work; Safety first and last
Shell interactions-The tailor's touch; The spike; Micro-fajing: Yinjection; Macro-fajing: Yinfusion
Elemental modes of energy application-Fire-rebounding; Water-Yielding; Earth-Immovabiity; Air-Impalpability; Meta-Melding; The shell revisited; Troubleshooting; Defensive shell-The slide; Defensive shell-The slurp
Chapter 5 Sword
Basic projectin
Hand & mind
The lingtai amplify
The heart radiance
Chapter 6 Combative taiji?
Cahpter 7 The big picture
Appendix A Are you experienced? (The training testimony of Sun Lutang)
Appendix B Frequently asked questions
Appendix C Sagawa Yukiyoshi''s core teachings with taiji annotation
Appendix D Glossary
Acknowledgements and thanks… (meer)