GrahamB wrote:I've been reading Gates of Fire recently (great book btw) about the Spartans and there's lots of detail of their shield work in there, how they used to train to knock a man back with a shield charge so that it would make them feel like all the wind as knocked out of them (and most of the consciousness too).
Bao wrote: I also like Baji’s punch using the whole movement of of turning the whole side to the opponent.
johnwang wrote:Bao wrote: I also like Baji’s punch using the whole movement of of turning the whole side to the opponent.
The long fist vertical punch is the same as the Baji punch. The only difference is the downward block. I like the downward block because when I use left downward block, I can extend my left arm forward as far as I can and pull back my right shoulder as far as I can. My body can be a perfect line from my left hand, left arm, chest, and my right shoulder...
The XingYi Beng Chuan doesn't give me the maximum compression and maximum releasing feeling
Yeung wrote:Guo Yunshen improved the Bengquan, and most practitioners follow his improvement in dragging the rear leg forward in the half step reverse straight punch. The technique you demonstrated did not fully utilize the power in Bengquan.
GrahamB wrote:Yeung wrote:Guo Yunshen improved the Bengquan, and most practitioners follow his improvement in dragging the rear leg forward in the half step reverse straight punch. The technique you demonstrated did not fully utilize the power in Bengquan.
"Guo Yunshen improved the Bengquan" - there is no evidence for that statement.
"and most practitioners follow his improvement in dragging the rear leg forward in the half step reverse straight punch" - reverse straight punch? Are you talking about Karate? I think you're talking about Karate.
Yeung wrote:Guo Yunshen improved the Bengquan, and most practitioners follow his improvement in dragging the rear leg forward in the half step reverse straight punch. The technique you demonstrated did not fully utilize the power in Bengquan.
I think that Yeung is trying to say that bengquan appears to be a modification of the "typical" reverse punch of longfist, Shaolin, etc.
GrahamB wrote:Bengquan, done barehand, is simply an adaptation of spear thrusting to barehand striking. It's not a modification of any other method.
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