ors wrote:Hi everyone!
Separation of bones and meat is not an easy task. To understand this concept you have to understand basic force concept of neijia. Usually we use a kind of "pushing force" both in everyday life and MA. This is the classic force a boxer use whan hitting. The force generating from the feet up to the legs, the waist, the back, the shoulders, the fists.
There are a diffenet kind of force in chinese martial art, which is a kind of so called "leading force". In this case we generate force vice versa. We concentrate on the tip of the finger, or any other "end joint" which we want to use for hitting.
The feeling in the body is a total strech. Thanks to the fact that the movement starts at the tip of the finger and you just pull every bone after bone of the whole body, every joint will "open" a little bit.
For this kind of movement you have to use your intention to imagine that the endpoint leads the movements.
If you continously concentrate P.E. the fingertips and you develop the feeling of whole body strectch (this feeling is a kind of stretch along the bones not like when you try to make a side split or similar), you will feel something like your skeleton "wriggle out of" the muscles. This way we can say the bones go forward while the muscles remain back. This is separation of bones and muscles. The "yi" subject is that we can say the muscles store the "qi" and the bone marrow belongs to "yi". This "yi" is more likely a kind of pure intention. So this is the meaning of "concentrate on yi not on qi!".
If you practice zhan zhuang properly, after some practice you will feel how your muscles sink down, thanks to relaxation. The next feeling is your bones start to "float up". This is a very enjoyable, happy sensation like you would like to fly. This is again separation of bones and muscles.
Cheers!
Örs
ors wrote:Thank you very much George!
Unfortunatelly enough nowadays I don't have too much time for posting here or on any other forums. But I still like to read about good subjects.
I am glad you enjoyed my post.
Hi origami_itto!
I have just touched the basics of this subject, to answer the original post.
I haven't written about fighting or weapon work. Just about solo work. Weapon work is exactly about how to put the "end point" out of your body to a shorter or longer simple object, which action leads you to put the end point into a more complex "object" at the end... into the opponent.
Cheers!
Örs
Quigga wrote:
No energy 'spent' during compression
Quigga wrote:I was talking about the compression of the bones into the partner (the trains crushing into each other metaphor from Örs)
Have to be careful to not influence people too much with words.
All the joints are open in the body while moving. The bones like wagons follow the fingertips (or any joint which is the leading of the movement, or the tip of your sword P.E...). When hitting the target the structure of the body closes (the joints closes one after the other) and the weight is delivered.
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