Re: Internal Seminar: All must be free to move — John Kaufman
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:33 pm
Well yes, of course. Anything can be an ancient technique, a front kick is an ancient technique. My question was that if the technique and forms were "inextricably" linked then it would be natural to assume that one could not exist without the other. If the engine that powers the form, or which the form trains, is inextricably lined with the techniques, then my question was whether the engine could be used to power other techniques. More directly, can the Chen method of power generation (or the xing yi or bagua or whatever), be pulled apart from the traditional techniques at all? I think so, but it seemed to be suggested this was not possible.