willie wrote:Fang song ... It's about keeping the load off of the joints so that the joints are open and move unimpeded. "A fly would set taichi in motion"
rojcewiczj wrote:Willie, I think you are right. It seems to me that the main skill in preserving and applying Song is in how to separate the effort from the load. Meaning, how to separate the force one exerts on their opponent from the load which their resistance offers. In my experience, when I apply my center to my opponent, without locking my joints, then the majority of the load can be held by my central axis, leaving my limbs freedom to express force. The load goes to my center, so that my effort is not directly against the load, creating leverage. Without applying the center as a fulcrum, then my effort is always in the same place as my opponents resistance (the load). I feel that working with weights and rubber cord resistance has greatly increased my ability to do this. It is like putting on a backpack which allows your arms to move freely. If you can "put on" your opponents resistance like a back pack, then your limbs are free to do what you want.
willie wrote:rojcewiczj wrote:Willie, I think you are right. It seems to me that the main skill in preserving and applying Song is in how to separate the effort from the load. Meaning, how to separate the force one exerts on their opponent from the load which their resistance offers. In my experience, when I apply my center to my opponent, without locking my joints, then the majority of the load can be held by my central axis, leaving my limbs freedom to express force. The load goes to my center, so that my effort is not directly against the load, creating leverage. Without applying the center as a fulcrum, then my effort is always in the same place as my opponents resistance (the load). I feel that working with weights and rubber cord resistance has greatly increased my ability to do this. It is like putting on a backpack which allows your arms to move freely. If you can "put on" your opponents resistance like a back pack, then your limbs are free to do what you want.
That's right, You got it now!
In one of my prior post I had spoke about the yielding strength of a coiled spring. The opponent's Force is isolated into that coiled spring. This leaves the rest of the body uninhibited. It's like you had just stated, you put their Force into a backpack. Now the next stage is 2 explode that backpack. Use the force that they gave you and now unpack it. The coiled spring represents a non-rigid or non stick like body. It represents a suspension system. The coil spring is the yielding strength of the quads. In order to see how that works I have posted a different post about a truck's payload a page or two back, I think that that example will do. Then later and perhaps even more advanced , it depends on how you view it, that backpack is actually just the qi itself being compressed, that's why I made the other post on a shock absorber system similar to nitrous oxide. Qi is the gas inside . Thank you
Trick wrote:Mirror mirror on the wall who's the best riddler of all.....So now we have except for the snow covered tree branch also coiled springs, suspension systems, trucks, exploding backpacks and a while ago a picture of some sort of drill machinery
GrahamB wrote:Heavy Dantien
This is a great clip of Chen Bing teaching a basic silk reeling circle with a lot of emphasis on relaxing and being heavy.
People often wonder how being relaxed can generate power in martial arts. If you watch the video you can see how being relaxed in the upper body leads to great power in the lower body. And once you have that power in the lower body you can start to use it to drive your movements. Of course, there’s more to it than that, but it’s a start.
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