Re: A definition of Fa Jin (發勁)
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 2:51 pm
MaartenSFS wrote: Spending years and years arguing on this forum is not any sort of achievement.
smdh. no it is not. no idea who would say it is. I said we repeat the same stupid arguments over and over.
the fajin i've felt before doesn't use #1 (make a large movement smaller) or #3 ("special" physics). I can explain what it felt like as the recipient and at an elementary school level, what it felt like as the doer, but can I/you/anyone here use it in sparring? I doubt it. it's too hard to talk about and doesn't show up in video. If instead of "energy" there is "special" physics (again I say that's b.s. unless we say these two are the same thing) I would be interested, but nobody has explained it here. To say "I learned it and can show you" is indeed interesting, and I think it's very good if you guys can do that, but it doesn't sound like it can be explained in words here or shown in video.
To say "well you just have to do it" is almost contradictory of "special" - if it's anyone can do it, then there isn't anything special or worth talking about. For example, I can kick a soccer/football in an average way. At times I can hit good power with nearly no windup. But that isn't impressive. It isn't "internal power". It's just more efficient movement done over time (what I said was #1 - the large movement is refined over time). We all work on that. all MA work on that. I don't think that's what the OP meant in his definition.