Josealb wrote:uhm...I did not just made a comment on a taichi thread. Ok. Need some rum to sharpen up...im getting soft.
come to the dark side.
Josealb wrote:uhm...I did not just made a comment on a taichi thread. Ok. Need some rum to sharpen up...im getting soft.
chicagoTaiJi wrote:well peng means expand and refers to a specific motion which involves the whole body expanding (and typically, a step)...
I am just saying I do not see in the first clip, where exactly is the peng.... if anyone does not know, how can you say there is peng there?
DeusTrismegistus wrote:chicagoTaiJi wrote:Dmitri wrote:'peng' as a posture/movement/application? More than once; the first time is back of his left hand to the face, at 0:07
why would one 'peng' someone's head (when one can easily miss), rather than using a good old-fashioned punch?
Why do you think Peng misses the head any easier than a good old fashioned punch?
chicagoTaiJi wrote:DeusTrismegistus wrote:chicagoTaiJi wrote:
why would one 'peng' someone's head (when one can easily miss), rather than using a good old-fashioned punch?
Why do you think Peng misses the head any easier than a good old fashioned punch?
when you make contact with someones head and try to put your body weight into it, dont you think you're leaving your stomach wide open?
when you block a punch do you go for the fist or the arm?
when you use a "peng jin" do you go for the body or the thing sitting on top ?
I-mon wrote:here's an interesting clip which helps clarify what he's doing:
just like with the "peng" in the first clip, the point seems clear to me that it's not "this is how we do it" or "this is how you should do it" but rather "this posture/movement contains all of these potential qualities/directions/applications". see how in the clip i posted he does the taiji opening form normally, and then in the extrapolatory form his legs are wider and he squeezes his inner thighs together? that squeezing of the inner thighs is something which has taken me years to work out and he's showing that the feeling should be present even if it's not clearly visible in the standard forms. same goes for the rest. a posture isn't a posture, it's a whole bunch of stuff condensed into what looks from the outside like "a posture".
chicagoTaiJi wrote:hands moving by themselves independent of whole body is "ok" as long as you do not have to respect the most fundamental principles of the art
DeusTrismegistus wrote:I think master Su has more knowledge of the classics in his little finger than most of us will ever have.
SPJ wrote:
the vid speaks for itself.
1. the start up posture was to practice to rise the qi all the way to bai hui xue on top of the skull coupled with raising up the wrists. and then sink qi all the way down to yong quan xue at the bottom of your sole coupled with lowering the wrists and bending the knees.
2. he then varied the posture.
opening (Kai) and closing (He) as noticed and pointed out, but he also raised/rose and then moved to the left and sat on hip/sank, then moved to the right/sat on hip/sank and then back to center and then rose and sank again coupled with open and shrink/close.
his variations accentuated more practices of opening, closing, rising and sinking.
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my point is that the hand moves are only secondary or coupled with rise and sink and not coupled with open and close.
which is ok.
chicagoTaiJi wrote:as you are entitled to yours that the arms move without whole body movement has anything to do with the classics or tai ji quan.
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