wayne hansen wrote:The way I was taught is 5 types of movement
Metal top to bottom
Water bottom to top
Wood straight thru
Fire diagonal
Earth horizontal
An ax kick would be metal
A hook earth
And so it goes it dosent just handle hsing I attacks but any attack that follows those
5 modes of movement
There are no others
Appledog wrote:wayne hansen wrote:The way I was taught is 5 types of movement
Metal top to bottom
Water bottom to top
Wood straight thru
Fire diagonal
Earth horizontal
An ax kick would be metal
A hook earth
And so it goes it dosent just handle hsing I attacks but any attack that follows those
5 modes of movement
There are no others
That is what I would refer to as a broken analogy. Saying metal is top to bottom, etc. makes sense to me, if we're talking about the same thing, but the moment you add "an ax kick would be metal," I know we are talking about something else. Not that it is a bad thing, but I wonder what analogy you are using that lets you link those two in this way? To be honest, I don't understand it.
robert wrote:I think it's interesting that the qualities that Li Cunyi attributes to heng are elasticity/springiness and uniting/unifying. Also, when associated with the hetu the arrangement of the five elements is interesting. Heng, crossing is the center of the spiral of yin and yang.
And some people say this is the source of the yin yang diagram.
origami_itto wrote:That's really cool, actually.
When you consider Earth/Central Equilibrium in Taijiquan, it's that point in when Yin and Yang are balanced and neutralized and unified and from which we can apply that proverbial 4 oz of force to achieve some effect.
In fact, the chart of He-tu represents the internal organization of the energetical body, whilst the concept of energy regeneration is contained in the metaphor of reeling a silk thread from both ends around the Taiji circle.
robert wrote:
robert wrote:
everything wrote:piquan has the drilling up before the downward, right? if you can drill up, you can go straight forward. drilling/turning already has inside-out and outside-in. hence piquan is the "mother". yes, i'm mini-obsessed with boiling everything down to the "mother palm" so to speak. it makes sense why Bruce Lee or Wang Xiangzhai wanted to "reduce" to "formlessness" or "void" (to reference a different 5 elements term).
Appledog wrote:wayne hansen wrote:The way I was taught is 5 types of movement
Metal top to bottom
Water bottom to top
Wood straight thru
Fire diagonal
Earth horizontal
An ax kick would be metal
A hook earth
And so it goes it dosent just handle hsing I attacks but any attack that follows those
5 modes of movement
There are no others
That is what I would refer to as a broken analogy. Saying metal is top to bottom, etc. makes sense to me, if we're talking about the same thing, but the moment you add "an ax kick would be metal," I know we are talking about something else. Not that it is a bad thing, but I wonder what analogy you are using that lets you link those two in this way? To be honest, I don't understand it.
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