kenneth fish wrote:No
jjy5016 wrote:Would you say that Mike Patterson is teaching fan lang jin in this clip at around 1:30?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Gvu5YwgVM
NoSword wrote:
The issue with using 'bolang jin' is that you have to have a structure. (What exactly is a structure anyway? Best saved for another thread.) There is a direct analogy with a guitar string -- the string has to be stretched taut before you can get a usable musical sound. Otherwise, you get motion, but no resonance. Lots of dancers, yogis etc, can move their spines in a wave, and this is very good for your body; the missing link for martial application is a fixed structure through which a wave can propagate.
I have one question: the way I was taught, it was never entirely clear to me whether the wave starts at the feet ('stepping into the ground') or in the coccyx region.
AK
Ralteria wrote:NoSword wrote:
The issue with using 'bolang jin' is that you have to have a structure. (What exactly is a structure anyway? Best saved for another thread.) There is a direct analogy with a guitar string -- the string has to be stretched taut before you can get a usable musical sound. Otherwise, you get motion, but no resonance. Lots of dancers, yogis etc, can move their spines in a wave, and this is very good for your body; the missing link for martial application is a fixed structure through which a wave can propagate.
This is what I was getting at earlier. D_Glenn usually mentions Bolang as an addition to thrusting force. Personally, I would say it's an addition to being able to produce power from leg and core compression as opposed to pushing off the ground (what I would classify as thrusting)...but this is an entirely different beast. I wrote waist, but when I say waist and D_ says waist we are talking about different things perhaps.I have one question: the way I was taught, it was never entirely clear to me whether the wave starts at the feet ('stepping into the ground') or in the coccyx region.
AK
Lots of components moving simultaneously. I would say the wave starts at the feet, but the physical movement of your center mass ends with the wave at one point. But there are others who can pipe in far more experienced than me.
Ideally though you want the *hand* moving before everything...and everything falling into place behind it.
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