Hi family!
I was curious to know if someone could enlighten me about "peng jin."
I figured I would make a thread since I've heard the term bandied around a lot and some of the old threads that mention the term were quite confusing to me, with practitioners of various schools contributing.
The reason I ask is because Baguazhang practitioners of three different lineages (Yin Fu, Ma Weiqi, and Ma Gui) who viewed my Baguazhang performance all recommended that I "need to develop more peng jin."
When I asked what they meant by peng jin, they responded variously as "a form of springy forcefield," or "like an inflatable tire you keep around you (because its resistive, but not rigid)." To be honest, the former reminded me a lot of Sigung's descriptions of someone with Dragon force and a well-developed shen. It also reminded me of Sigung saying both at last year's summer camp and the questions to Sigung thread that we can either focus our mind (for example, at the dan tian) or not think of anything (being in a "cosmic mode").
Is "peng jin," like many other things, rolled up in our school's classic advice of, "Get the form right, and then relax and enjoy your practice"?
At least I received some concrete physical advice from a Shaolin Wahnam family member that my rear guard-hand was too close to my body. Now that's clear advice that I can work on!
I was curious to know if someone could enlighten me about "peng jin."
I figured I would make a thread since I've heard the term bandied around a lot and some of the old threads that mention the term were quite confusing to me, with practitioners of various schools contributing.
The reason I ask is because Baguazhang practitioners of three different lineages (Yin Fu, Ma Weiqi, and Ma Gui) who viewed my Baguazhang performance all recommended that I "need to develop more peng jin."
When I asked what they meant by peng jin, they responded variously as "a form of springy forcefield," or "like an inflatable tire you keep around you (because its resistive, but not rigid)." To be honest, the former reminded me a lot of Sigung's descriptions of someone with Dragon force and a well-developed shen. It also reminded me of Sigung saying both at last year's summer camp and the questions to Sigung thread that we can either focus our mind (for example, at the dan tian) or not think of anything (being in a "cosmic mode").
Is "peng jin," like many other things, rolled up in our school's classic advice of, "Get the form right, and then relax and enjoy your practice"?
At least I received some concrete physical advice from a Shaolin Wahnam family member that my rear guard-hand was too close to my body. Now that's clear advice that I can work on!
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