Il Maestro Vasile Ciocoiu, attualmente residente a Washington e` stato assunto dalla BeiJing YiQuan Training Center nel 2004 per il progetto cinese di diffusione del metodo B.Y.T.C.YiQuan (YiChuan) DaChenQuan anche negli U.S.A.
Esperto in differenti stili di arti marziali, studioso di medicina cinese, YiQuanQiGong, YiQuanKungFu e TaiJiQuan (TaiChiChuan), Vasile Ciocoiu e`stato nominato dal Maestro Davide De Santis come referente ufficiale di YiQuan B.Y.T.C. negli U.S.A.

INTRODUCTION
I may betray my ignorance saying that the great deal of this life is to be around good teachers and helpful friends but I definitely know that the difference is made by which side are we. There are sides and sides and life, more or less ironically, drags us through everything and let us to choose. The side I am referring to is the one without any shades of misunderstandings that clearly subsides in our heart where there is a point that speaks the same for everyone for which everyone of us has to cut down any hypocrisy or harmful compromise. I said “ our heart” knowing what beautiful thing is there and that the only key is our sincerity and reasonability with others and us. And since heart is the chamber of our life and our spirit, it is necessary to emphasize over moral life as prevention of mind’s disturbance, confusion, madness and ignorance. Heart is our gate to the path of initiation of what is real. But nobody can pass this gate through a throw of dice or knavish mind because God does not put power in such hands.

ZHAN ZHUANG Standing posture training

With great regard on what it is called internal martial arts training or NeiGong it stands the training of inner Qi-energy motion, using relatively physical motionless standing postures. It sounds like a paradox to train through no motion but what an expression we find here of what Lao zi used to say that “Dao does not do anything but everything is done” Same for the ignorant eye “standing” for a quite a time without moving may seem inadequate and a waste of time for finding “the Way”. Claiming again a paradox, standing without motion does not have anything to do with strictly physical part but a pilgrimage in the realm of the spirit, mounting the source of the heaven and earth and be present in all thousands of changes, traveling the inexhaustible. The paradox here is you travel through your inner universe without making a step but standing. And how can we physically walk on something that is too big to have exterior and too small to have an interior. It may sounds mystic but is not at all.

”Outside motion requires inside stability, outside motionless will create inside movement, inside movement will determine outside display” a teacher of mine used to say. Once the student will practically perceive the sense of standing training then there is something inside that will determine a physical motion of body. It is not a pre-established or fixed motion like taolu of other styles that may seem of a reverential aesthetics of power but a very spontaneous follow of the intention “-Yi” wandering and riding the infinite changes as a boat on the waves of a sea. It is the perfect psychosomatic motion in which the physical action, out of any imposed superficial, is superposed to the mind. This motion is an extension of the inside motion. Or probably paradoxically Shili is a Zhan zhuang in motion - a motion of stillness, a motion of a universe inside of other universe where stillness contains motion as well motion contains stillness.

MOCABU - Stepping

The front leg descends the mountain; the back leg climbs the mountain. If Shili is a Zhan zhuang in motion then Mo ca bu is a shili of the legs following the agility of the intent. What is down needs to follow what is up, what is up needs to join the flow of the great nameless, the great Way always follow what is natural.

FA LI -The Explosive Motion

A wave travels through Entire Ocean that to the end will meet the shore. How it mysteriously comes in the same way unseen goes. But the shore definitely feels the power of its blaze.
Yiquan is recognized for its power that can be developed paradoxically through a very short motion. It is a simple display but a feeling of a terrific sudden projection of power that comes like a wave towards periphery and released like a bullet.

TUI SHOU - Pushing hands

Sun zi - the great general who compiled “The Art of War” came with a very simple but efficient concept that could be found in any fighting systems: “I move last but I reach first”. In tuishou sensing the other one move will come with the anticipation of his intention. Knowing the intention of the opponent I know where to go, being one step ahead and give the proper answer. It is an answer to establish a balance through a reflecting attitude of “if you are still, I’m still with the sense of moving, if you move, I move having the sense of stillness”.

SAN SHOU - Free Sparring

Sparing in Yiquan is like reaching a border of understanding what the explanation loses to explain, same as the case where an attack loses its name because the tension and aggressiveness lose their intention. The supposing attack is the one without intention, becoming a variable of harmony of the whole of the circumstance. The multitude of techniques of Yiquan will subscribe to the verticality and spontaneity of the spirit that will bring out an answer before formation of any thought. So there is no distinction between attack and defense because one contains the other one and if the mind will look for a separation of them, the fixation, rigidity and tension will appear. Essential here is avoiding the avoiding and in attack the lack of the intention to attack.

* NOTE: In 2000 gained 2 years Full Scholarship in China for specialization in Acupuncture, Moxibustion & Tuina given by Romanian Education Ministry through its overseas study programs.

Other Accomplishments:

• Certified as a Chinese Caligrapher
• Chinese Daoism Studies
• Rock climber and bouldering
• Speaks Romanian, Chinese (Mandarin dialect), and English
  
  
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