I have this book in chinese and japanese, given to me by my teacher, written by Wan Yen Nien. I believe it is michuan applications and it shows left and right versions.
Is this book meant to teach specific applications or show diverse reactionary applications? I don't read the languages it is written in but have spent hours looking at it. It seems to show applications for a sequenced form in a intelligent systematic manner, is this right?
In my study so far the Michuan form has some facets to it that I find alien compared to yang public energies. I know the public energies, and the michuan sword energy/moves. What pray tell are the michuan hand energies? Are they the same as the sword energies listed in Laoshi's sword book? mo, pi , hua, etc?
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Re: Michuan applications
Wang Laoshi produced two books on the Yang Family Michuan Taijiquan forms. One just shows the three sections of the form & the one you have shows applications for all the movements of that form, inducing variants.J HepworthYoung wrote:... this book meant to teach specific applications or show diverse reactionary applications?...
The Michuan system uses the same 8 energies or movements as the public system, Peng, Lu, An, Ji, etc... However, as I'm sure you've noticed, the Michuan system uses completely different body mechanics. It is this difference that I found so interesting & useful to study along side/with the public system. By studying both systems one realizes that peng, for example, is not a technique done in a certain fashion, but a way of using the body that should not be restricted by technique.J HepworthYoung wrote:... the Michuan form has some facets to it that I find alien compared to yang public energies. I know the public energies, and the michuan sword energy/moves. What pray tell are the michuan hand energies? Are they the same as the sword energies listed in Laoshi's sword book? mo, pi , hua, etc?
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Re: Michuan applications
Both these books are still available in an English/French version@ http://www.ymti.org/us/J HepworthYoung wrote:I have this book in chinese and japanese, given to me by my teacher, written by Wan Yen Nien. I believe it is michuan applications and it shows left and right versions.
Is this book meant to teach specific applications or show diverse reactionary applications? I don't read the languages it is written in but have spent hours looking at it. It seems to show applications for a sequenced form in a intelligent systematic manner, is this right?
In my study so far the Michuan form has some facets to it that I find alien compared to yang public energies. I know the public energies, and the michuan sword energy/moves. What pray tell are the michuan hand energies? Are they the same as the sword energies listed in Laoshi's sword book? mo, pi , hua, etc?
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Would you mind elaborating on this please?Scott M. Rodell wrote: one realizes that peng, for example, is not a technique done in a certain fashion, but a way of using the body that should not be restricted by technique.
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If I may share my own view, which lacks the experience Laoshi Rodell has, but still reflects an obsession and love for taiji.
if you flick a rope you can watch the wave travel in it, the front of it wards off, the back of it rolls back.
The front of the wave, this is Peng energy, the back of the wave, this is Lu energy.
They are ubiquitous in all motion and transfers of energy.
Newton was talking about their relationship when he said that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
If you spin a ball on a vertical axis you can also see these energies, as one side of the ball expands the other side contracts.
For an even more dynamic example put a bicycle upside down and get the wheel spinning. Take a stick and put it so it touches the tire on the expansion, the stick will be warded off, touch the tire at the retraction, it will be rolled back.
Peng and Lu:
They are the two poles of taijiquan, from them all of the 8 energies or jins are descended.
You can see this combination well with the pillar view of the trigrams:
Heaven/Yang/Peng
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Earth/Yin/Lu
Thus even for a person Peng jin is an energy, not a technique.
And given this information the following statement appears to be highly coherent to me;
At least this has been my attempt to describe the energies of Peng and Lu as I understand them, and my understanding is relative and subject to change.
if you flick a rope you can watch the wave travel in it, the front of it wards off, the back of it rolls back.
The front of the wave, this is Peng energy, the back of the wave, this is Lu energy.
They are ubiquitous in all motion and transfers of energy.
Newton was talking about their relationship when he said that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
If you spin a ball on a vertical axis you can also see these energies, as one side of the ball expands the other side contracts.
For an even more dynamic example put a bicycle upside down and get the wheel spinning. Take a stick and put it so it touches the tire on the expansion, the stick will be warded off, touch the tire at the retraction, it will be rolled back.
Peng and Lu:
They are the two poles of taijiquan, from them all of the 8 energies or jins are descended.
You can see this combination well with the pillar view of the trigrams:
Heaven/Yang/Peng
|||
|:|
||:
|
|::
::|
:
:::
Earth/Yin/Lu
Thus even for a person Peng jin is an energy, not a technique.
And given this information the following statement appears to be highly coherent to me;
Up, down, left, right, it is all the same.Scott M. Rodell wrote: one realizes that peng, for example, is not a technique done in a certain fashion, but a way of using the body that should not be restricted by technique.
At least this has been my attempt to describe the energies of Peng and Lu as I understand them, and my understanding is relative and subject to change.