klonk wrote:I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that zhan zhuang, if you do enough of it, lays a sufficient foundation. That's a pretty big "if," because people often don't. You not only have to do a lot of it, you must do it in the right way and with various postures, not just the stereotypical tree hugging.
I'm setting this out there for refutation, as much as anything. It is what is claimed and believed by many. ZZ is, at least, adequate foundation for what I am doing. This may be the old problem of me not knowing what I don't know. My aim, and I am succeeding at it, is to "put the foot into the hand," so to speak.
If there are levels and dimensions I have not glimpsed, that raises the old problem of explaining music to a deaf man. As I say, I'm setting this up with the idea that anyone who wishes to naysay, may.
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Also ZZ can be done in so many different ways that calling it with one name might give the impressions it's one exercise. With the different ways to do it, the form is the same, what's practiced and developed is not.
Lewis Carroll wrote:`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master - - that's all.'
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. `They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!'
`Would you tell me, please,' said Alice `what that means?`
`Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. `I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.'
`That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
`When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, `I always pay it extra.'
kenneth fish wrote:Zhanzhuang assumes foundation skills. Without them, you are just standing.
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