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(These words seem to be too complicated for my understanding. I think I've grasped your main idea but am not sure. Are you trying "to push" right to opponent's center [line] only?) no the center that I speak of is the center of their mental balance point. Once you find this point, you eith...

There seems to be some confusion on what resistance is, these are my views. It’s the inability to change. Some one who can change really well offers no place to apply force or pressure to. Level or ability of ting jing determines the lightness of the touch needed to determine the change needed. (If ...

This was taken from this site, I thought it would offer some good thoughts on fai_jin

http://www.taiji-qigong.de/info/article ... punkte.php




[This message has been edited by bamboo leaf (edited 01-11-2004).]

Yes this has been my experience, there is no "physical strength" involved Reading the thread there seems to be much confusion about push hands demos and what exactly is happening.. Yes the practitioner's posture and physical structure is more or less irrelevant to his ability to topple the...

If you read the artical you will understand that looking for mechanical effects of this type of pushing can be misleading. True his leg dose start to go down but notice that his center moves before any other action. This type of pushing and idea are very different IMO until you have actually experie...

Greetings to all, I didn’t read all the post i hope that i dont say what has been said before, but the subject is very interesting to me just wanted to share some experiences that I recently had in china with a master there. His whole practice could be summed up as yi or mind.Upon touching him and h...

Greetings to all A really nice site and interesting discussion I hope to learn and perhaps add a little to it. My name is Dalton; I post on other sites as bamboo leaf. One thing I haven’t heard mentioned is the use of Yi or mind in pushing it might account for some of things noted in the video. This...