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...
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,...
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....
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 a sparring or combat application, does this mean that skilled practitioners, who use this kind of full-body fascial connectivity, are continuously maintaining this perfect alignment?
Yes, ZZ is a training stance under "low-noise" conditions so you can become proficient in the internal relationships that must be maintained for the condition to exist. During movement, alignment is constantly changing, though never in such a way as to break the internal relationships which allow the tensegrity to exist continuously.
The caveat to this is that within tensegrity it is possible to further emphasize a stretch along one or more lines in order to create motion/wave-action in the body by stretching further and releasing (like shooting a rubber band). When doing that you would intentionally tauten in one direction preferentially (from the neutral tensegrity state) and then release. In general, optimally, you would use this to 'bounce' back and forth from left/right, up/down, in/out, clockwise/counterclockwise, etc., such that the release from one stretch is 'captured' so that it becomes the stretch of the next movement. If at any point you were to lose good alignment, injury is possible if you are moving with a lot of energy, as whichever joint is misaligned is the location where kinetic energy will "leak" out....if the joint isn't capable of stabilizing the energy tissue damage is likely.
This generally involves a magnitude of dynamism in movement that isn't often found in TJQ systems, however. During slower movement there isn't much danger, though there is a minimum speed possible to get the stretch-relaxation effect (i.e. amortization period -- look up stretch-shortening cycle for an analogous process in muscle).
with proper training, your body will learn to "want" to maintain these properties (and will feel when those properties are becoming undone due to poor alignment) even during full-speed combat situations.
Yes, definitely. After sufficient training in alignment (5+ years, IMO) you will simply instantly feel correct/incorrect alignment in about 90% of situations without needing to think/analyze. During movement it becomes harder because of how easily the attention is distracted by a moving body, lol. The best course of action is, of course, to start with slow movement and increase the speed as competency grows.
And just to be clear, what I've described is not actually a special thing at all. It's how the human body is supposed to move efficiently. If you watch gymnasts or track and field events like discus throw, javelin throw, etc, you can see that they are doing what I'm describing. The human body is highly efficient at producing torque externally and internally, and using that create spirals along the spinal axis. The core is the primary power structure responsible for stabilizing the body, the hips and thoracic region of the torso are the primary mobilizers of the body. Everything else is moved by those.
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...
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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....
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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...
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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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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...
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OC Stretch-Shortening Cycle in Striking and Fajin
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...
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