Re: A simple way, push and pull
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 3:25 pm
charles wrote:I've been taught "an" is a downward action, as in "push down". Peng is upward/outward, an is downward, ji is forward, lu is backward/inward. It's all "Peng". After that, call it whatever you like.
What is more disappointing to me is that few agree on what Peng Jin is. With sufficient variation in meaning, the term no longer has any common meaning: it means whatever one wants it to mean.
There are some differences of interpretation of the 8 jins. Some people says "an" is a downward movement, some people regard it as forward and upward, yet others says it's just "push".
Peng is not the same as pengjin. Peng is using peng as a movement, pengjin is the quality or energy that could be said should always be prevalent.
The problem is that a character or concept in Chinese can mean different things. But I don't care what people call different things. I see what different practitioners do, how they do what they do, and if I can, I want to feel what they do. How someone verbalise what he or she does is not important. IMO, people are too concerned with words.
LaoDan wrote: it is not clear to me how they describe a punch to the face in terms of the 8 TJQ energies.
A straight punch, as a lead is traditionally viewed as "ji" or press. "Ji" just means a force straight out from the middle of the body, or a force that is aligned straight from the center line.