Chi and orientalism.

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Sorry, this was a better link, I didn't have time to find it before I went to church

A Guide to Swedish Drill

What is Swedish Drill? Spend any amount of time scouring over Charlotte Mason literature, and you will find a unique term that most are unfamiliar with, Swedish Drill. The historical literature on Swedish Drill, often referred to as Swedish Gymnastics, is guaranteed to give you a good laugh...

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Didn’t see your this post befor I wrote mine, but there it is that the gymnastics was adopted by various countries in Europe

 

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That's very interesting, thank you

More on the Scandinavian path. There is an Norwegian guy living in England who teach what he say is his family martial art that stem back to the Viking era or even further back, it’s called - Stav, as in staff/stick and also as in ‘bokstav’ which means a letter of the alphabet, but in this case refers to the runes.
The core practice of this martial art as I understand is stance training kind of similar to Chinese Zhan Zhuang practice .
And as such I guess it involves energetics practice much like Qi/Chi

I remember reading about this a long time ago in the excellent British martial arts magazine Fighting Arts,

 

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More on the Scandinavian path. There is an Norwegian guy living in England who teach what he say is his family martial art that stem back to the Viking era or even further back, it’s called - Stav, as in staff/stick and also as in ‘bokstav’ which means a letter of the alphabet, but in this case refers to the runes.
The core practice of this martial art as I understand is stance training kind of similar to Chinese Zhan Zhuang practice .
And as such I guess it involves energetics practice much like Qi/Chi

I remember reading about this a long time ago in the excellent British martial arts magazine Fighting Arts,

Cool! Now I know what it's called I can google it! Thanks muchly