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jlilly
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I've seen him do these in alot of different videos but what exactly is he doing to his breathing? Why is it beneficial? A text explaination would be appreciated due to my current lack of audio. Thanks in advance.
Pranayama: Breath control which should be refined to help concentrate one's thoughts.
This is a nice link below to show different kinds of pranayama:
Yoga Breathing (Pranayama) - Traditional Breathing Techniques
Ujjayi breath: taken from Total Astanga by Tara Fraser
"Sit upright in a comfortable position and take a few normal preparatory breaths. Now inhale and exhale through your mouth, making a "hah" sound on each exhalation, as if you were trying to steam up a mirror. Notice how this feels in your throat. Close your mouth, inhale normally through your nose and try to replicate the sound "hah" while exhaling through your nose. You should be making a gentle hissing noise, similar to the one you hear when you put a shell to your ear to listen to the seas. Do this a few times. Now try to make roughly the same sound when you inhale as when you exhale. The sensation is slightly higher up your throat on the inhalation than on the exhalation and the sound is a slightly different quality. Do this for a few more breaths and then relax and return to breathing normally again.
As you become more familiar with ujjayi breathing, check that each breath you take is of equal length, that your inhalations are the same length (count silently to yourself), that there is no hint of strain or tension in your jaw or tongue, no change in pressure as your breathe and no gasping or sighing sounds.
At first you may feel that you have to concentrate hard to maintain ujjayi breath and that it requires effort to breathe in this way. However, with regular practice, ujjayi breath becomes automatic and you will find you can easily maintain it throughout your yoga practice.
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Ujjayi breath is practised through the entire sequence of Astanga yoga postures without a break. It consists of the narrowing of the air passages in your throat which enables precise control of the flow of air into and out of your body.
...Ujjayi breathing can greatly enhance your ability to do [Astanga yoga postures]... It increases your lung capacity, it creates a feeling of heat in your body which enables your muscles to stretch without injury, and it increases the detoxifying natures of the poses. Ujjayi breath has mental benefits: the soft sounds are soothing and create a steady rhythm to accompany your practice, and they also give you the focus that you need to turn concentration inward and reach a meditative state.
If you breathe normally during exercise, your breathing rate naturally speeds up as your body copes with the exertion. If your practise ujjayi breath, however, you can control the length and pressure of your exhalation very precisely, and this enables you to maintain breath control and avoid panting, even during intense exercise.... This facilitates a stillness of mind even during the most challenging of physical postures.
Astanga yoga without ujjayi breath makes the postures more akin to a gymnastics workout. Quite simply, the continuous, steady flow of ujjayi breath is what makes your Astanga practice into yoga."
As far as what form of pranayama Rickson does at the beginning of the Hulk movie- that will come in a different post of mine- need to work and plenty above to read for starters. Look at low breathing on my above link for starters but I have personal experience doing what Rickson did and I do know you should not do that particular excercise for longer than like 10 minutes as you start reducing oxygen supply to the brain. I don't believe what Rickson is doing is exactly low breathing but a specialized excercise where you "cough" through your nose and forcefully exhale out of your nostrils in order to auto-breathe- and this gets you relaxed and high- ready to concentrate.
This is a nice link below to show different kinds of pranayama:
Yoga Breathing (Pranayama) - Traditional Breathing Techniques
Ujjayi breath: taken from Total Astanga by Tara Fraser
"Sit upright in a comfortable position and take a few normal preparatory breaths. Now inhale and exhale through your mouth, making a "hah" sound on each exhalation, as if you were trying to steam up a mirror. Notice how this feels in your throat. Close your mouth, inhale normally through your nose and try to replicate the sound "hah" while exhaling through your nose. You should be making a gentle hissing noise, similar to the one you hear when you put a shell to your ear to listen to the seas. Do this a few times. Now try to make roughly the same sound when you inhale as when you exhale. The sensation is slightly higher up your throat on the inhalation than on the exhalation and the sound is a slightly different quality. Do this for a few more breaths and then relax and return to breathing normally again.
As you become more familiar with ujjayi breathing, check that each breath you take is of equal length, that your inhalations are the same length (count silently to yourself), that there is no hint of strain or tension in your jaw or tongue, no change in pressure as your breathe and no gasping or sighing sounds.
At first you may feel that you have to concentrate hard to maintain ujjayi breath and that it requires effort to breathe in this way. However, with regular practice, ujjayi breath becomes automatic and you will find you can easily maintain it throughout your yoga practice.
....
Ujjayi breath is practised through the entire sequence of Astanga yoga postures without a break. It consists of the narrowing of the air passages in your throat which enables precise control of the flow of air into and out of your body.
...Ujjayi breathing can greatly enhance your ability to do [Astanga yoga postures]... It increases your lung capacity, it creates a feeling of heat in your body which enables your muscles to stretch without injury, and it increases the detoxifying natures of the poses. Ujjayi breath has mental benefits: the soft sounds are soothing and create a steady rhythm to accompany your practice, and they also give you the focus that you need to turn concentration inward and reach a meditative state.
If you breathe normally during exercise, your breathing rate naturally speeds up as your body copes with the exertion. If your practise ujjayi breath, however, you can control the length and pressure of your exhalation very precisely, and this enables you to maintain breath control and avoid panting, even during intense exercise.... This facilitates a stillness of mind even during the most challenging of physical postures.
Astanga yoga without ujjayi breath makes the postures more akin to a gymnastics workout. Quite simply, the continuous, steady flow of ujjayi breath is what makes your Astanga practice into yoga."
As far as what form of pranayama Rickson does at the beginning of the Hulk movie- that will come in a different post of mine- need to work and plenty above to read for starters. Look at low breathing on my above link for starters but I have personal experience doing what Rickson did and I do know you should not do that particular excercise for longer than like 10 minutes as you start reducing oxygen supply to the brain. I don't believe what Rickson is doing is exactly low breathing but a specialized excercise where you "cough" through your nose and forcefully exhale out of your nostrils in order to auto-breathe- and this gets you relaxed and high- ready to concentrate.
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Umm...wow...thanx. That was way more than I expected to get and I'm quite happy about it. Thank you very much xMikeyX.
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I read recently that Gigi Paiva made a comment that Rickson's jiu jitsu really skyrocketed after he began working with Orlando Cani. Very intriguing. It's both odd and interesting that these "alternate" ways of training can make your level of jiu jitsu "jump" so much.
yoga is great for learning how to breathe while twisted into odd angles. It takes a while to get it right, but once you do, it makes a huge difference. I'd recommend a flowing style of yoga like Vinyasa, which I think translates best to martial arts.
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rickson was teaching that to the Incredible Hulk, didn't work for him though.
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The part that looks gnarly where his stomach goes in, he isn't breathing at all. He's doing an old bodybuilding excercise called the vacuum. You exhale all your air from your lungs, then suck in your stomach like you are trying to touch your bellybutton to your spine. This excercises the inside of your core and prevents you from having a distended stomach, AKA the Chuck Liddell six pack gut.
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YouTube - Gracie Jiujitsu Yoga Breathing Method
In this video you can hear him exhale completely before doing it.
Well, you could if you had sound.
In this video you can hear him exhale completely before doing it.
Well, you could if you had sound.
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my yoga instructor has us doing that. I think she had reffered to it as "dragon breath", but I could be wrong.
Anyway, getting your abs to do that crazy stuff is hard. But, if you work on it a lot and really concentrate you can get a bit of ab movement...and it feels very ackward!
Anyway, getting your abs to do that crazy stuff is hard. But, if you work on it a lot and really concentrate you can get a bit of ab movement...and it feels very ackward!
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Ujjayi is the first step of yogic breathing. It is a way of enhancing your practice of the yoga positions.
What Rickson does in the vids everyone is talking about is Pranayama, which is a full yogic exercise in and of itself.
It is also very advanced stuff, so nothing a beginner in Yoga should or would be introduced too.
This is not something you can replicate from a video.
What Rickson does in the vids everyone is talking about is Pranayama, which is a full yogic exercise in and of itself.
It is also very advanced stuff, so nothing a beginner in Yoga should or would be introduced too.
This is not something you can replicate from a video.
The crazy ab thing is a yogic stomach lock, it's called nauli kriya:
Dailymotion - Tao Semko demonstrating Nauli Kriya, a video from UmaaTantra. tao, semko, nauli, kriya, reproductive
Dailymotion - Tao Semko demonstrating Nauli Kriya, a video from UmaaTantra. tao, semko, nauli, kriya, reproductive
