origami_itto wrote: You embrace the tiger to return it to the mountain.
The mountain is the ground.
Again, your assumption is based on wrong premises. You imply that all applications must go to the ground but this is not correct. A movement was not created for a specific application, there are many different possible applications of every movement. You can even take out smaller parts of a movement and create applications on them.
Think about a specific move as this one or BK, Single whip or any of them as Chinese characters. Any Chinese character is symbolic but also abstract and vague in meaning. They are contextual, they get the precise meaning when they are put in a sentence in a specific context. A Chinese character can be used in many different ways, it can be a noun, a verb, adjective, or vastly change meaning depending on how you use it.
In the same way, any Tai Chi move imply a throw, take-down, qinna, fist or palm strike, etc. They can also include things as elbow attacks, possibilities to kick or use the knees. So there is no fixed direction or any fixed idea how a specific move should be used.
A well fed animal is in no mood to fight. You're saying it has a full belly and is going home to sleep. What is the martial applicability of that idea?
What is the martial applicability of a fair lady weaves at shuttle, slanted flying or playing the lute?
From the name well fed tiger returns to mountain I have the picture of a Tiger's body turning around. You showed an application that included a quite strong turning of your body, so why is it so hard for you to put these things together? A tiger turning its body and you turning your body?
I like the poetry of Tai Chi names. In Tai Chi, you don't want to have pictures of violence or any way of making effort. Tai Chi teaches that natural, unrestrained body movements are the most powerful. To understand the the spirit of Tai Chi, you need to get rid of aggression and "trying to use strength". Those things will lock your mind and body, and hinder your body from moving efficiently. So a well fed tiger returns to mountain is much better and makes more sense from a Tai Chi perspective than "throw your enemy's head violently against the ground." You just don't want to get into that mindset as it locks your body and mind. That's not Tai Chi.
I dunno, it's not important except that you're wrong.
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