KEND wrote:I'm sure this question has been asked before, I applied it to Hsing yi but found no satisfactory answers. In TCC forms there are a certain number of techniques which are repeated, others which are not. Is this determined by frequency of use or ones favored by the creator. If you were given the 13 postures would you do it differently
Most of the arts prior to a certain point had very few movements and relatively simple combat theories developed to a high degree..
For something like taiji, the key components were taught as single movements.
Those that are repeated, can be thought of as instilling certain movement, concepts, or strategies that made taiji very different among other arts of the day.
If you were given the 13 postures would you do it differently
first one should understand the how and why, the 13 postures are arranged.
When working with a partner, the four techniques of ward-off, rollback, press, and push are the first of the thirteen dynamics to work on. Stand in one place and do the four techniques rolling in circles, then do them advancing and retreating, doing them at a middle height. Then do them higher and lower as well, practicing at all three heights.
The four primary techniques, aligned with the four cardinal compass points, are ward-off, rollback, press, and push. In the beginning, there will be a lack of understanding of the principle that squareness can lead to roundness and that they may alternate. Thus ability will emerge in the four secondary techniques of pluck, rend, elbow, and bump. Due to your outer limbs and inner spirit not maintaining nimbleness of squareness/roundness in the primary techniques, the mistakes of lightness, heaviness, floating, or sinking will start to manifest, and with them the secondary techniques.
https://brennantranslation.wordpress.co ... i-fa-shuo/explains the why, what and how. Although the basic practice was probably very different back in the day.
The way I would teach it, would be just using the first 4 techniques as outlined in the article.