wayne hansen wrote:The basis of our system of hsing I is the heavenly stem exercises
And that is exactly how they are practiced
GrahamB wrote:https://www.instagram.com/tv/CfgUtwNINxZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
A new toy to play with in the garden means more content to create for The Tai Chi Notebook! Here's a quick little video on Xing Yi Stepping and how to do it wrong, wrong wrong, then right!
wayne hansen wrote:Is this a rhetorical question
GrahamB wrote:Hi Origarmi,
Yes, you can in (our) Hebei style using a more "bright jin" (our terminology) method which is seen in animals like Snake - like the way a snake bites - fast and sudden. That doesn't need you to step through the other person and is often delivered with the fingers not the fist - that's a specialist animal doing a specialist thing (there's always an exception to every rule in Xing Yi) - Monkey uses a similar type of power as well.
I think that Shanxi style uses "what we call" 'bright jin' more - as Nick mentions above - than Hebei. They probably don't use these differentiators like bright jin and dark jin - never seen another Xing Yi style uses them, but I think they help explain different types of power. (perhaps similar to "long" and "short" in Tai Chi).
The point being that in (our) Hebei you're preferred method is to try to hit them with that kind of penetrating power "dark jin" (our terminology again), that means you step through where they were standing - so in that sense there's never a situation where you can't step. So it's all a bit of a theoretical argument. Going back to spear usage - your main goal is to get that spear through their body, which will require footwork.
Can't speak for other styles of Xing Yi.
(Should also add that the reality of a sport hand sparring type of situation is that if you commit to these heavy penetrating strikes all the time, you're probably going to get your ass handed to you - for sport matches you have to mix them up with lighter strikes otherwise it would be like a boxer always throwing the big power shots - a cross or overhand right and nothing else.)
GrahamB wrote:Our spear practice is not stationary - it's all the same between different weapons and no weapons. i.e. We don't suddenly start doing something else because we're holding a sword, or a spear or punching.
Can't speak for other systems.
GrahamB wrote:Our spear practice is not stationary - it's all the same between different weapons and no weapons. i.e. We don't suddenly start doing something else because we're holding a sword, or a spear or punching.
Can't speak for other systems.
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