the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Master Chen Zhonghua explains and demonstrates how to generate fajin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cySKgMvQwsU

I like this guy the most of all the Chen guys I see
However he moves the 3 spots he says not to move
So either the explanation is bad or he feels he is doing something he is not

He meant (as I understood) that these 3 spots DO NOT MOVE by themselves but ARE MOVED by dantian rotation.

OK that's different

That makes a lot more sense. I like him too but I always had the same question in the back of my mind whenever I watched his vids.

Typically when CZH says "don't move" he means it doesn't change location in space-- a more correct terminology would be that there's no translation of the dantian (or whatever he happens to be talking about). It does not refer to something like rotation around one or more axis, and as far as I know has nothing to do with where the movement originates, what moves what, etc.

wayne hansen wrote:I like this guy the most of all the Chen guys I see
However he moves the 3 spots he says not to move
So either the explanation is bad or he feels he is doing something he is not

He's one of my few favorite Chen guys too.
IMO, he's also borrowed some key elements from Wu and Yang and modified his art.

(The reason I'm saying so is because although he claims to have learned from Hong Jun-sheng, his method differs quite a bit from those taught by Hong's other senior students. Furthermore, some of the points he emphasizes in many of his videos, especially the importance of "stillness," are exactly identical to some of the Wu/Yang style indoor materials I've been exposed to.)