Paida on the snowy mountains

 

   滑雪场/Winter Park Resort

I’m recounting my story in English.

My college classmate Hong invited us to go to Denver, Colorado to ski right before 2015. The day we arrived, the temperature was -20 ferinheight​. Thank goodness Hong and her husband picked us pick from the airport. I dared not to drive on icy and snowy roads. Hong, thank you for your hospitality!

This is our first ski trip. I signed my daughter up for junior class. My son and I were in adult class. We needed to do rental before going to class. Plano’s elevation​ is 675 feet. Winter Part Resort’s base elevation is 9000 feet. My daughter felt sick while we were in the middle of renting: vomiting, stomach pain, and headache. I paida her Zusanli, inner elbows, and neiguan. It was cold and people were in and out of the rental place so I did not take off any of her clothing. Rental took us a longer time and we were running late for class. I did it for about 15 minutes. She felt better. I walked with her to her class. I only realized that what she had was altitude sickness after I heard the coach talking about it in my class. I had a minor headache. The coach also told us to soak in the hot bath that night because most people would feel sore and pain all over the body after first day of skiing.

I remembered that Xi’an had lots of snow in winter when I was little. My friends and I would built a snow path together​. We would find a place with bit slop and started to make a narrow path by stepping all the snow down tightly. We would each take turns to slide on it until it became very smooth. I could only find a pair of shoes that had hard plastic on the bottom that would slide easily on the snow. Unfortunately, there was a big hole on the bottom of the right shoe at the ball area. I would have to dig out the small snow ball on the shoe after each few slides… Now with the ski boots on (very heavy) and stepping into the ski, I felt so different. My feet and legs would not go where I’d want them to.

About 11 am my daughter’s coach called and told me that she was not feeling well. I went to see her. She looked sad and uncomfortable. I took off her heavy clothing one arm/leg at a time to paida directly on her skin. I was still working on her zusanli​, inner elbows, and neiguan, plus waiguan because her spirit was low. Lots of white sha came out, and some purple and red dots. I spent about 1 hour paida this time. Then I covered her with my heave jacket and let her sleep for about 15 minutes. She was back to her class after lunch. I went to pick her up after the class was over. Her coach told me excitedly that she jumped from level one ski to level three! She was happy with such achievement and told me she loved skiing. She was never sick for the following two days. Her altitude sickness was gone with only 1 hour and 15 minutes of paida.

 

Zusanli (picture comes from the Internet)

Neiguan (picture comes from the Internet)

Waiguan (picture comes from the Internet)​

I discussed it with Hong later. We both agreed that even if she had taken medicine, it would not have healed her that fast.​ My daughter started ballot class when she was 4 and she has done it for 6-7 year. She is one of the few students in her class who can do both straddle and right split. She has done paida with me at home a couple of times and she knew it would work.

 

We had spent a very cold day outside taking ski class. The first thing I did after we got into our hotel room was to turn the fireplace on. Took off all the thick layers of clothing and started paida myself: head, elbows, neiguan, weizhong, ​and legs. I did not have the sore and the pain described by the coach the second day. I have benefited so much from continuous paidalajin, taichi, and lotus sitting in this ski trip that I want to ask every lucky person who is reading this: just do it!

 

Weizhong (picture comes from the Internet)

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Since I took time to take care of my daughter, I was not able to follow up with my son’s class. I was dropped to another class. It was a miracle that I was in the same ski class with the formal principle of my son’s after school care from Plano! ​What a small world!

美国 德州 祝东晓 Dongxiao (214-506-3487) Plano, TX​
2015-01-10

2015新年前，应大学同学红之邀，俺带俩孩子去克罗拉多州的丹佛附近滑雪。俺们到的那天，气温大约是摄氏零下23度。幸好有红的老公开车接送俺们，俺是不敢在路面全是冰雪的情况下开车的。在此先感谢红一家的热情款待！

这是我们第一次去滑雪，娘仨第一天都报名上课。闺女上儿童班，儿子和老妈上大人班。上课前要租一大堆东西。我们平时居住的城市Plano海拔206米，滑雪场的大本营海拔2743米。在租借用具期间，女儿有些不舒服，恶心、想吐、胃痛、头痛。俺立刻帮她拍打足三里、双肘、内关。由于天气寒冷，租借间总有人进进出出，俺只能隔着外衣帮她拍打。租借东西花了大量时间，我们已经要迟到了，所以大约只拍了15分钟左右。她感觉好些，就送她去上课了。当时俺还没有意识到她的不舒服其实是高山反应。在俺的滑雪课上，教练讲许多初次滑雪的人会有恶心、胃痛、头痛、乏力、缺氧等​高山反应。俺第一天确实有些轻微头痛。教练还说，晚上最好泡个热水澡，不然第二天会腰酸背痛。​

记得小时候，西安冬天下大雪时，俺会和院子里的小伙伴一起修滑雪道：找一处稍微有点儿坡度的地方，先合力开出一条小通道，把雪踩实，再​一遍遍滑，慢慢雪道就变得非常光滑了。那时侯家里不富裕，为了滑雪，俺特意穿了双硬塑料底的布鞋。不过，那鞋底的脚心部位上早就有个大洞了。每滑几次，就必须把洞里的雪疙瘩掏出来、、、如今穿上滑雪靴（好沉），踏上滑雪板，那感觉真不一样，俺的腿脚都不怎么听使唤啦。

大约11点左右，闺女的教练打电话给我，说她不舒服。我看见闺女时，她愁眉苦脸，情绪低落。这次我们在室内，她的滑雪衫和滑雪裤，我每次只给她脱下一条胳膊或腿，再拉起她的衣袖/裤子，直接拍打在皮肤上，还是​足三里、双肘、内关，并加上外关。她出了许多白痧，星星点点的紫痧，还有些红点点。这次拍了大约1小时。给她盖上俺的滑雪衫，让她在椅子上小睡15分种。午餐后，她回到课堂。下午我去接她时，教练兴奋地告诉我，闺女已经从滑雪一级升到三级！小姑娘眉开眼笑，一下子就爱上了滑雪！随后两天的滑雪，她再也没有不舒服的感觉。高山反应就这么在拍打下化解了！

足三里、内关示意图（来自网络）

外关示意图（来自网络）

事后俺和红探讨此事，俺俩一致同意，当时就是吃药也不会那么快终止闺女的高山反应。闺女从4岁起学芭蕾，至今已经6-7年了，她劈叉，横劈竖劈都没问题。她以前在家和俺一起拍打过，对拍打信心十足，一拍就灵！

俺白天在外面冻了一天。回到酒店，第一件事就是脱去冬装，打开壁炉，坐在壁炉前开拍，头，肘，内关，委中，小腿。第二天，俺没有传说中的腰酸背痛！平时不间断的拍打、拉筋、太极、打坐，在滑雪之旅中显示了其强大的功力！

 

委中示意图（来自网络）​

 雪山上的奇遇：俺因为照顾闺女，耽误了课时，跟不上原班，只好跟下一班。这个班中有一对华人夫妇，教练给俺们做介绍时，俺看那位女士眼熟，一问之下，他们也来自Plano，原来她是儿子小时候课后学校的校长！世界太小啦！​

这次滑雪之行的另一个成就：把红拉进了拍打拉筋的队伍中！​俺给红带去两个医行天下拍痧棒，她简单实践了一下，说比按摩效果好多了。她下次去中国，计划带父母和家人参加体验营。

 朋友们，拍打拉筋简单易行，随时随地都能治疗急症或慢性病。行动起来吧，拍打拉筋会给您带来意想不到的惊喜和收获！​

美国 德州 祝东晓 Dongxiao (214-506-3487) Plano, TX​