Bao wrote:The basic postures and a lot of the strategy comes from spear and staff fighting. In spear fighting, the movement of the spear can go up or down and at the same time the force can be straight forward. How we play the five elements is very similar.
LaoDan wrote:.. I was wondering if the wuxing are also used to describe XY spear techniques, and which element/phase would correspond to which spear technique.
In the version of Taiji spear that I learned, there are five main techniques (some schools only emphasize three...open/close/issue):
Press/Down [=pi]
Spread/Open (deflecting from inside to outside) [=heng]
Covering/Closing (deflecting from outside to inside) [=zuan]
Snapping/Upward [=pao]
Thrusting/Issuing [=beng]
These seem like they could be fit well with the wuxing, if desired, although I was never taught to do so. I was just curious if XY spear has techniques, which correspond to the wuxing, which may be comparable to TJ spear. Note: I know little about XY and nothing about XY spear, so I cannot really add much to the OP.
LaoDan wrote:This could lead to someone trying to include these unassigned techniques into the wuxing scheme? Could this be a contributing factor to the uncertainty being discussed in this thread?
Ojibwa wrote:Sorry--but if Xingyi is this complicated I don't think I'll bother.
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