Formosa Neijia

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This is an interesting film. Please try your best to ignore the annoying Japanese language overlay.

As I’ve said in the past, Feng doing just abut anything deserves to be watched. I still feel that he’s probably the best there is. We’re lucky that this film has been made public.

IMO, taiji really is the study of these 8 basic jings and this is a great intro to them. He gives many examples of most of the energies, with the exception of “lieh” unless I blinked and missed something. Some of his examples will surprise some people and open up the minds of others. I think some will be surprised about doing, say, peng with a knee. Pretty enlightening stuff.

He also gives a great demo of using the 8 jings against a partner. Interestingly enough, we see high-level teachers do this often but I don’t see many students actually practice the 8 jings with a partner the way that Feng does. The examples that Feng shows would make a great practice routine for anyone that wants to deepen their understanding of taiji.

About lieh, I’m a bit curious as to why that one got the short treatment. I’ve been very fortunate to get some concrete examples of lieh usage from my teachers and it’s become one of my favorite moves. But then I felt that my system sort of gave peng the short treatment as a individual jing to be practiced as more of an attack. Some of Feng’s suggestions on peng will definitely make it into my workout routine.

Enjoy.