尋夢園

Silk reeling was mentioned on a message board and below are my thoughts on it.

These movements are helpful for taichi but there's another take on the jins -- chousijin. It means pulling silk instead of reeling silk. Yang style uses more pulling and Chen uses more reeling. The pulling silk doesn't use overt winding in expressing the powers so the moves look straighter. You usually start with either one of these and then advance to the other one. Just mentioning this because over the years i've seen Yang style get trashed as worthless because they aren't using obvious chousijin like Chen style in the clip.  

As for chansijin being a complete JM program, I doubt that. Sonnon et al. have actually added quite a bit of value to JM in two areas:
1. the RMAX stuff is organized and targeted at specific areas. You know what you're doing specifically for each joint and there's both a clear regression to easier exercises and a clear progression to harder, more sophisticated exercises. Sonnon has done a great job with this.

2. Sonnon's system leads clearly from open to closed kinetic chain material. Sonnon takes the Intu-flow and moves it through a progression into Flowfit and then Prasara yoga, etc. Doing the closed kinetic chain movements that use the ground allow for a greater range of movement and more stretching as you get more advanced. Chinese systems rarely have this. When they do, it's almost always been taken from yoga.

Of the two, I find Sonnon's stuff more complete.

I did a ton of silk reeling in my training and found it vital to understanding CIMA. But it also has the limitations mentioned above. I actually am doing more of Sonnon's material now and getting more out of it. But maybe that's also because I already did silk reeling.