the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

This is an old film of Luk Chi Fu doing the Min Loy Jeun. Since it is film and time is an issue, he is playing this form rather fast because this is a slow internal set. Nontheless, The Late Grandmaster Chan Tai San told me when I showed him this film, that it is probably a good idea to play this set fast in practice to learn more about the practial aspects of this form.

The Min Loy Jeun or needle in cotton form is a metaphor for the idea of hard and soft (Gong, Yau) that is represented in Gung Fu. But it also is a version of plucking a rose and you get hurt by the thorn. Meaning the you can see the cotton but you can't see the needle inside. Luk Chi Fu 陸智夫, was a famous disciple of grandmaster Ng Siu Chung, and gung fu brother of Chan Hak Fu, Kwong Boon Fu and others. He opened his martial art school during his teen years in Guangzhou, later transferred to Hong Kong, he passed away a few years ago in Hong Kong.

The Late Grandmaster Chan Tai San told me when I showed him this film, that it is probably a good idea to play this set fast in practice to learn more about the practial aspects of this form.

Mei Li Jin is the most advanced form of martial art in the Tibet White Crane (Baihepai or Pak Hok Pai) family. Only six levels are shown in here because the seven level is not for public.

Fei He Jian is sword performance within the Tibet White Crane family.

Honest answer it's internal.

At the time, Mr. Long was mostly talking as I was coming in with my punch. He wasn’t paying much attention to me, and as a result, he deflected my punch by “slapping” my forearm away a bit too hard.

The “Burning Hand,” was Mr. Long’s signature technique, and he was quite open about teaching it those who wanted to learn it. It was an “internal” specialty, different from “external” pushing power. More a slap than a hit, Mr. Long would sometimes place a phone book on your shoulder and give it one of those “slaps.”

You could feel two things coming through the phone book. The first was a push (the external component) that would set you back a foot or two. That was to be expected, but it wasn’t anything to worry about. It was the second thing that was nasty... a sharp, stinging sensation that penetrated your shoulder.

This second force seemed to follow the more external, first force. It seemed to lag behind. But the external force was then gone in an instant, while the stinging second force stayed -- and grew.

Now, I am not a gullible person, and it was going to take more than a trickle of this second force through a phone book to convince me that this slapping stuff was anything much. And so it was that Mr. Long deflected my punch with a slap…just a little too hard. And as a result, my arm locked out in front of me, as if frozen, while a searing pain moved through the flexor muscle compartment of my forearm. My jaw clenched shut as I could feel beads of sweat forming on my face. Mr. Long continued to yack away at the other students, unaware of my predicament. I was struggling to breath, actually. I couldn’t move, actually. But out of the corner of my eye, I could see the other students now looking at me with some concern.

For his part, still talking to the group, Mr. Long began pulling back to strike again. He still wasn’t looking in my direction. I tried to retract my arm, but couldn’t move. Then finally, I managed to whimper something out… like “Aaaa!”

I know that sounds dramatic, but that’s what happened. And lucky for me, it was enough to get Mr. Long to stop talking and turn his head to see that I was in some serious hurt. I would not have been a happy camper had I been hit like that twice.

The next day I had a huge black and blue mark on my forearm, pretty much the size of his palm. But this was not a result of force #1. That kind of force would have maybe broken a bone, had he hit hard enough, or maybe it would have done nothing, if he hadn’t hit hard enough, but this was something from force #2. And call it whatever you like… call it qi, or burning hand, or whatever… it is something you need to personally experience in order to get the idea. And I got the idea. https://rumsoakedfist.org/viewtopic.php ... 7be1127b96

windwalker wrote:There is a lot of breathwork and intent associated with the performance of the sets.

Baihepai
Soft-fist cotton wrapped needles
Cotton-studded needle technology, both the hand Buddha said soft. This kind of boxing method is to use meditation to adjust the body as a body, and to use the yin of the yin. The yin in the yin, the method of washing the marrow. The ancients have the rule of the tendons, and the marrow is washed. The method of washing the marrow is more precious, and the scholars who have passed the fascination have not received the teacher. The cotton-wrapped needle is one of the marrow-washing meridians, but still works as a transverse phase. Being able to cohere with each other can only unite the yin of the sin in the shade, thinking that the god is a physical and chemical machine, and that the effect of heaven and man is one. The method of cotton wrapped needles is finalized.