rojcewiczj wrote:If your Peng is sufficient, then even if you are stopped, your opponent will have to receive your force.
It is my job is to train my body until every move I make can and will effect my opponent.
For instance, when stepping forward with peng, one leg pushes off the ground and the entire movement of the body correspondence purely to this push off the ground. The entire body becomes a 1 to 1 between strength and movement, force and movement, muscle and movement. Does this mean you need to have bigger and bigger muscles?
the Taiji I love tells you quite simply that your not strong enough!
The mystery is not where does the force come from, the mystery is strength itself. What rules strength follows, how is it expressed through movement. Particularity this question, how do we move with strength? Movement itself is a sort of weakness, a softness that must rap itself around iron. Iron by itself is dead and must be concealed within the folds of movement.
Water is soft and water is hard. When you apply a force to it, it conforms, it moves and does not break. When it rebounds, it is hard, like a tsunami. "Be like water."
David Boxen wrote:Once the whole body has momentum, e.g. you are stepping forwards, what does it mean to have some parts moving in one direction and others in the opposite direction?
windwalker wrote:Water is soft and water is hard. When you apply a force to it, it conforms, it moves and does not break. When it rebounds, it is hard, like a tsunami. "Be like water."
really? this is how it works.
How does the water rebound with more energy
then what was put into it. Or do you feel its the result of compression,
can it be compressed?
GrahamB wrote:As an exercise go and watch an mma fight on YouTube then ask yourself if a knee moving a centimetre would change the outcome...
Maintaining circular movement creates yin and yang within all aspects of the movement. Chen Fake supposedly told Hong Jun Shang that he believed that people misunderstood peng as the one jin. Rather Chansi jin was the one jin. As within silk reeling...all jins are present.
Steve James wrote:Ya know, I wonder what if anything the old Yang masters had to say about chansi jin in Yang style. Otoh, I'd say that spirals are the result of rotation and translation --and I think that the "13" whatevers comprise that.
Bodywork wrote:Chen Fake supposedly told Hong Jun Shang that he believed that people misunderstood peng as the one jin. Rather Chansi jin was the one jin. As within silk reeling...all jins are present.
Dan
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