D_Glenn wrote:Bob, is this method the part of the strike where the Baji guy suddenly drops/ squats down as the hand is going out?
Well, not the way I learned but maybe there are other ways to do this
Rusty pinyin but as you drop down it is like compressing a spring however the fist is hollow and upper body is fang song - then rising is driven by legs, waist, and upper body stays relaxed and tightens only at the end for a second or two - then there is relaxed contraction until you reload
Xu jin --> fa jin with chan si jin from twisting of the waist
One way to visualize this is the rebound when a trapeze artist dismounts from the trapeze by dropping into the net and you see the center of the net sink pulling on the corners and then the trapeze artist is bounced up.
At point .35 mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHiRqDjTGPw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eGnuU9Zobs&t=1s
Later one learns to punch out of a stationary half horse/half bow stances without the twisting of the feet - again to can map a lot these onto the da qiang training.
Hope this makes sense???
These clips are only a snippet of the training that goes with this - one of the first exercises we learned from day one regardless of what we were training was as follows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvZIxYHLzXo
Two very basic warm up exercises that were extracted from the Pigua system to help prep the Baji development. Looks easy but yet not that easy.