wayne hansen wrote:Now that’s just silly
origami_itto wrote:Okay so what about this. I called it "ti fang" but he didn't describe it as such. He called it just something they did in his Wu Ji style.
marvin8 wrote:
Wilson Pitts: Ti feng, opponent rooted and unrooted.
taiji coach
Oct 11, 2022
catch and release
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5_PlQvZv0U
There are times, however, when a force comes from the
front causing one side of the triangle to collapse. What
then would be the result? It is illustrated in the following diagram. As shown here when the force comes directly from the front and without
deviating to the sides or up or down,
we no longer talk about turning left
or right or cycling up or down as the
way to yield. We talk only about
receiving the attack. In T' ai Chi
Ch'uan, we use the opponent's strong
attack against him - which is what the Book of Changes
describes as K'an, the trigram of "the Abyss" and the
hexagram of danger. This is the primary reason to use
the term "T'ai Chi" to name this martial art, for it
means to cause the attacking force to dissolve in emptiness. When the opponent realizes that he has failed, his
only option is to withdraw and try to escape. During the
opponent's withdrawal of his attacking force, my abdomen, which has absorbed and stored the force of his attack, uses this power to attack his retreat. This response
is what the Classics refer to as t'i-fang. Fang means to
release. I then become a circle again. The opponent will
be at a loss as to what he can do and is thrown out a
great distance. This fa-chin (releasing strength) is a
unique characteristic of T'ai Chi Ch'uan.
origami_itto wrote:But I will agree it's not it, as in the one with me, I'm still pressing forward when going back.
In the one with Ray, it's maybe ti fang, don't know what he calls it... receiving energy maybe? Will have to ask. It's the elasticity that I'm talking about. The incoming force depletes and he sends it back. You can see in the first push how it goes back into his body, the second one the arms come in like a deformed circle and then become round again as the student flies back. He's absorbing and rebounding some and letting the student push the rest of it.
windwalker wrote:origami_itto wrote:But I will agree it's not it, as in the one with me, I'm still pressing forward when going back.
In the one with Ray, it's maybe ti fang, don't know what he calls it... receiving energy maybe? Will have to ask. It's the elasticity that I'm talking about. The incoming force depletes and he sends it back. You can see in the first push how it goes back into his body, the second one the arms come in like a deformed circle and then become round again as the student flies back. He's absorbing and rebounding some and letting the student push the rest of it.
Offered the link as way of viewing it....
Not really something I advocate nor practice to do..
As with many things there are levels of practice,
which sometimes become counterproductive once an understanding has been reached..
happy holidays.
origami_itto wrote:And, like, I KNOW you can think somebody into falling down without touching them.
The rest of us have to go through stages where we develop the roots and trunk before supping on the fruit of those branches.
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