Today I'm watching Jackie Chan at his absolute best in Drunken Master II. This was the first kung fu comedy I remember seeing (I didn't see the original Drunken Master until later). Comedy or not, the fight sequences and stunts were and still are amazing.
There are so many stringent alignment requirements for getting tensegrity throughout the whole body. The easiest way IMO is to just start with the hands, try to figure out how to stretch the fascia with minimal muscular contraction, both in the direction from wrist to fingertips, and also across the width of the palm/back of...
In the simplest of ways of describing the whole of the Wuji process; Movement from the undifferentiated to the differentiated and back meet and neutralizing conflict and attending to harmony in the process....
This 'meditation' provides only two paths to walk: the one that works, or the painful one that doesn't. I have mastered the painful path. In breaking, we do not wish to follow that path! Thus, it is critical that the Wushi (Warrior) have a well-developed capacity to produce Fa Jin, unconsciously but intentionally. Yi...
Power is work done over a period of time. Work is force applied over a displacement. Force is the energy produced by an accelerating mass. Acceleration is the change in velocity over time. Velocity is the change in position over time....
Fajin isn't possible to do by hearing instructions and then following them as if it's an explanation of a technique, it takes a gradual and progressive development of the underlying body condition and movement control skills in concert with a shit load of experimentation, probably giving yourself whiplash a few times, nearly...
One of the primary kinematic goals in my system is the development of awareness, integration and control of tensegrity of the human movement structure, where the bones form the rigid struts, the fascia forms the elastic tensors, and the joints form the pathways for force transmission along smooth vectors....
The Stretch Shortening Cycle (SSC) is essential to the development of speed in movement. Speed is greatly limited by muscular tension and must be generated through other means. SSC involves the use of the elastic properties of the fascial network and very brief, momentary “pulses” of muscle tension to actuate fascial...
A training process like wujiquan results or aims at developing the capacity to do actions in the universe. Everyone is born with this inherent capacity, for example at the most basic level it is just sustaining life bodily through autonomic, instinctual and auto-conditioned actions, like breathing, pumping blood, eating food,...
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