Bao wrote:The six connections in IMA means connecting and bridging the internal to the external. The external connections only does not make anything internal.
a point of contention, not for this thread Qi needs to be there guided by yi and expressed through jin. The three external connections is what bridges the internal and the jin, but in the internal arts, jin is not the expression of the external. Jin is the external expression of the internal.
qi, yi yet to be defined. Jin, at most it can be said to be an expression of type of force.
What distinction do you use to determine if the "jin" is internal or not. What I can see in the Karate vid is good body coordination and good use of the body, but it's something created by external connection. Nothing wrong with that. Btw, I like this guy, he is good.
It is said from "external to internal, from internal to external"
What is said to be internal is always there.
Until certain alignments and understanding of them are developed
there can be no expression or usage of it directly as with arts or high level masters
who either depend on it or say they use it, indirectly aspects of can be seen in use
even by those who don't have this concept in mind while doing so.
It might be more productive to speak of "intent"
what is meant to lead with it, is it being shown by the teacher in the demo.
This treacher seems to confused as to his own art
and appears to be using aspects of other arts to make up for it.
Kime a word some might not be familiar with here describes what he is doing.
It is the ability to rapidly dump power into the target which is ‘kime’.”
Or how about:
“the point is you accelerate into the target and you kime focuses the energy inside [the target] rather than through. Very difficult to explain in words […]”
Or:
http://www.karatebyjesse.com/kime-putti ... he-coffin/