Fa-Jing Chuan—Explosive Energy Boxing
Fa-Jing (or Fa-Jin) means explosive energy. Chuan: Boxing. T’ai Chi Chuan teaches Fa-Jing, slowly and surely, as long as we practice accurately and consistently.
Robin, over at Obey My Blog, spent two years studying T’ai Chi to get it:
“…that beautiful squishy center o’ mine generated a PA-PA-PA-POW! And totally surprised me.”
We gain Fa-Jing by practicing the System of Taijiquan.
Systems include many parts. Reviving Taiji reveals 5 distinct aspects that martial arts systems should include: moving naturally, striking things, practicing forms, interacting with people, and knowing acu-points and crazy applications.
And Taijiquan Systems include many specific tools…
- Qigong
- Long Forms
- Single Pushing Hands
- Double Pushing Hands
- Corner Pushing Hands
- Weapons Forms
What To Do Now?
When available, you can learn Old Yang Style Forms right here.
Take a peek at this following clip where Master Erle Montaigue demonstrates how to use Single Pushing Hands to gain Fajing.
Fa-Jing Explosive Push Hands
Other supplements exist to get your Fa-Jing going.
- Wudang Hand Weapons, for example, offer repetitive partner punching to get it.
- Baguazhang weaves another complete, systematic, circular layer of learning around your Fa-Jing progress.
- And one of my favorites: Dragon Boxing.
Try them all.
Get good at a couple.
And let me know what works for you…
posted: 29 January 2010 by author: S.Smith
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hey I love this video, and the pushing hands exercises also. Been doing more of this stuff myself lately, pushed hands for 1.5 hours the other day , and remarkably wasn’t sore the next day! Great stuff, please keep em comming Steven! Things are falling into place.
Peace,
Arlie
Dito, agreed…Love Love LOVIN’ IT…Keep ‘em Coming, I could NEVER get Satisfied Enough…I wish I could: READ uR MiND!!!, heh…
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Yeah Arlie, that’s the great use of single push hands with pressure. If I had to choose only one drill: it’s this one: single push hands for this purpose.
Loc: good to have you and your unique grammar.
Bob: thanks for the link.
Dragon Prawn Boxing will get you shakin.
5:1 shake ratio.
Your partner punches first (one shake{BAM}) and you respond with bam-bada-bam-babam-babam.
That is how it is done.