johnwang wrote:TaoJoannes wrote:(stomps on the back of BMF's neck, thus breaking it before letting the body wash out to sea)
That's what I'm looking for and I believe that "finish move" has nothing to do with "internal" or "external" and doesn't have to be Taiji only move. I also believe that move is Yang and not Ying.
That's a matter of terminology.
Taiji changes between yin and yang, but so does the sky and the ocean.
The techniques that I consider to be true taiji techniques work through the mechanism of yielding, first and foremost, and it's an offensive AND defensive sort of action. Trying to reduce it to a one-dimensional art or argument just winds up being frustrating. The only one dimensional part is that it's a responsive art, that determines the course of action by letting the opponent start, then capitalizing on the situation that results from their choice. They play their game, you negate their game, and that is your game. If they don't want to initiate, then you draw them into it.
It's bullfighting, plain and simple. Entice, evade, stick a spear in their flank, Entice, evade, cut their head off. The alternative would be to walk up to the bull and start trying to wrestle it into submission. I don't care how strong you are, that ain't happenin. Or maybe even just walking up with a sword and going for the jugular directly. Perhaps possible, just not easy or advisable.
On concrete or a rooftop, the neck stomp may not be necesarry, as an added consideration.
I think you're precisely right in that the finish move is neither external nor internal, in fact, no technique is expressly either, I may venture to say, but the way in which the technique is applied and how its made possible is what is different.
