This type of power emits the bodyweight anywhere and at anytime through an advanced understanding of the body-mind nexus. It is a higher form of physics that transcends the usual localised muscular tension and superficial joint leverage utilised by many other fighting systems.
Tag: Taijiquan
China: Was Xu Xiaodong (徐晓冬) Damaged by Taijiquan ‘Internal Force’?
The use of ‘spirit technique’ (神功 – Shen Gong), may well have physically and psychologically ‘shocked’ Xu Xiaodong, with the obvious physical effects manifesting some days later. Certainly, for at least three days after the ‘fight’ Xu Xiaodong was acting irrationally, and saying all kinds of weird and unusual things.
China: The Background to the Taijiquan v MMA Debacle (27.4.2017)
Xu Xiaodong stated that Yi Long’s remarkable martial abilities stemmed from him taking steroids and other performance enhancing drugs!
Daoist Immortal Wu Yunqing (吴云青)[1838-1998]
He also states that the Dao is everywhere without exception and that Daoists should not discriminate – as discrimination ‘blocks’ effective qi-flow and wastes essential nature (jing).
Moved by the Holy Spirit – the Christianisation of Chinese Martial Arts
Chinese people must eradicate ALL vestiges of Western imperialism and Christianity from their martial arts practises and return to the higher wisdom that defines Chinese martial history.
Lost Soviet Martial Art of Systema
The Chinese language internet contains some very interesting Soviet-era texts. This article covers the Soviet martial art of Systema, providing information that I have not read in the West.