Bao wrote:Trip wrote:I might be nowhere near what you’re trying to describe...
But, it sounds like you're describing the constant light contact
that is required to keep contact with your opponent
Probably what he means. Personally I would not confuse keeping a (very, very) light contact with keeping pressure.
Trying to keep contact with "peng" means resistance, that you offer your opponent a way to attach his strength. This is wrong.
The only way of keeping pressure except a very light contact is to constantly "filling in the gaps". If you keep flooding cavities, following his "yin" movements that goes away from you, attaching to his weaknesses, then keeping pressure means means following so he has no where left to go. He will be stuck or fall, etc.
The contact, yes. The amount of pressure can be light or heavy. In this I'm saying any touch is pressure. 4oz or 1000lbs.
I don't understand why what I'm talking about is hard to get. I believe the stationary aspect is about openness in the joints. And here, yes. Imagine holding something heavy against a wall, but maybe you pinned it there by reflex and you aren't in an optimal position to keep it up, or you want to change it up to be able to get one hand in place to grasp it better and set it down gently.
Let's say one way is to lean on it, or keep stiff, which limits your mobility. A better way is keeping the joints loose so that every part of your body except the part holding the load is free to move easily.
You are delivering constant pressure but are moving freely.
If you do this with, let's call it LI, it is qualitatively different. The difference might be called double weighting. Double weighting isn't binary. We've got degrees of seizure that occurs. Sometimes it is just resistance against ourselves.
The same quality of openness applies to the light though, only here the load is moving and we are moving.
Ultimately this enables stick adhere join follow without resistance and without letting go.
So it's a lot of things and also an atomic or fundamental component.
I guess the instructions reveal the quality which then enables the skill. I'm talking about that middle part.
Yielding, yes, following, yes, joining, definitely.
Feet, inches, hundredth parts, thousandth parts.