by Overlord on Sat May 16, 2020 4:57 pm
Wu, Ma and Dongbei Baji each has it’s own flavor.
AFAIC, I look at :
1, Shoulder rolling to cover neck and head 藏頭勢, 項桿勁 for both defense and attack
2, Foot work with grinding force 碾銼勁 personally I don’t think sink stomping is good for the knee/ankle
For me these two is the basics.
A misconception of TCMA is that you be successful with first hit,this is not true, opponents move around with distance and timing is off 90% of the time. This is why Baji added Pigua to improve upon on footwork and long reach and Pigua added Baji to enhance the explosive power. But one need to separate for student these two when passing down knowledge.