Friday, October 5, 2012

Ward-off Jin (掤勁) from The Secret of the Eight Methods (八法秘訣)

掤勁義何解?如水負行舟。
先貫丹田氣,次要頂頭懸,
全體彈簧力,開合一定间。
任有千斤重,飄浮亦不難。

吳公藻
"How to explain the correct meaning of Ward-off (Peng) Jin? It is like the water carrying a moving boat.
First one fills up Qi in the Dantian. Second, push up the head is as it was hanging.
The entire body generates a springing force, opening and closing in a fixed timing.
It is not hard to make even one of thousand pounds of weight float."

By Wú Gōngzǎo (吳公藻), based on the translation by by Yang Jwing Ming (楊俊敏) presented in the book Tai Chi Secrets of the Wu Style (太極拳吳氏先哲秘要).

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