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Any more thoughts, comments or observations before I let this subject slide off the BBS?

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Rafael: Sung means to relax yet be supple and alive. When you're sung everything is open and chi is flowing naturally throughout. In eve...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Mike: <B> Well, my first comment is that you are quoting one of the great mistakes that is often seen about "opening" the join...

Thinking about this further, I realise that skeletal alignment is critical to development of sung. Without correct skeletal alignment the major muscles can not properly relax or loosen up as required to allow peng jin. Presumeably exercises that encourage opening up the joints between bones also act...

Mike, Thanks for your reply. I understand I am probably over simplifying this, but I wanted to get a clearer sense of this aspect of my practice. I also agree with your position that, in reality, this is a small part of a larger issue - peng jin. I don't see it as a separate topic so much as a first...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: I would go one farther than this: turn your waist and in so doing turn leg and foot. </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Is it turn the...

Wow, a lot of action around this subject of peng jin...I should have started the thread on that subject and not "sung"... http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/ubb/smile.gif Just to clarify my understanding. I do not suggest that focusing on relaxing is the key to practicing taiji correctly, mer...

Mike and Jerry, Many thanks for posting guys - I was beginning to wonder how far out on a limb I had gone with this, or how foolish I was looking !!! I hear Mike's statements about the jins, in particular peng jin,and I accept them implicitly. I have very little experience in this field, and no expo...

As I received no response at all when I posted in the theories section, could I respectfully ask Yang Jun for a definition of Sung? I think I understand the concept (please see my post), but have heard many different descriptions of the "side effects" (qi flow, heat, running water, tinglin...

One of the most basic states in Taiji practice is that of "sung", yet there seems to be many different interpretations of the exact meaning of the word. I have started this subject with the aim of reaching a concensus on the meaning of "sung" as well as, hopefully, some exercises...