2good2b4gotten wrote:Silk reeling (纏絲, chánsī) is specific feature of Taijiquan (especially Chen style).
In the following video there is explanation of the term by Master Chen Zhonghua.
What do you think about this explanation?
oragami_itto wrote:To be more precise, in my Yang tradition we move the body as if telling silk from a cocoon meaning steady force and pressure, no gaps or breaks or jerks in power that would snap the tiny silk thread.
What he's talking about I would classify as part threading the Qi through the nine bends Pearl
oragami_itto wrote:To be more precise, in my Yang tradition we move the body as if telling silk from a cocoon meaning steady force and pressure, no gaps or breaks or jerks in power that would snap the tiny silk thread.
Bao wrote:I am not a Chen practitioner, but it seems to lack an important dimension other Chen stylists speak about.
Why a silk thread? Because it's very, very delicate and requires a very precise, delicate movement.
windwalker wrote:Other then providing a certain quality of movement demonstrated in
their forms, outside of push hands what can they do with it?
Bao wrote:windwalker wrote:Other then providing a certain quality of movement demonstrated in
their forms, outside of push hands what can they do with it?
IMO, the precision attained from the kind of practice oragami_itto addressed is one of the real the keys to learn how to control your movements in any situation.
oragami_itto wrote:
Yes that exactly.
You can keep even pressure on a point in space no matter how your body moves, for example, or can issue power from any point on the body in any direction at any time.
There's stories of the indoor disciple "string test" in the Yang family where the teacher would hold one end of a silk thread and the student held the other, and the student had to keep it tight without breaking it while following the teacher's movements.
windwalker wrote:oragami_itto wrote:
Yes that exactly.
You can keep even pressure on a point in space no matter how your body moves, for example, or can issue power from any point on the body in any direction at any time.
There's stories of the indoor disciple "string test" in the Yang family where the teacher would hold one end of a silk thread and the student held the other, and the student had to keep it tight without breaking it while following the teacher's movements.
If my memory serves me. Another teacher did the hold the bird test, he passed it but did not do well in the usage test.
He almost got knocked out. Must've been the wrong kind of bird.
...the (some) Wu school(s) is to teach a square form first before a round form. It's the same form, just bumped up a notch. What CZH seems to be doing here is similar.
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