{"id":547,"date":"2013-12-28T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/?p=547"},"modified":"2013-12-28T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T20:22:51","slug":"tai-chi-and-full-body-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/2013\/12\/28\/tai-chi-and-full-body-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Chi and Full Body Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tai Chi form is practiced at a slow speed compared to the forms of other kung fu styles. This video provides one reason why Tai Chi is done slowly.<\/span><\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tpdGPx0i7BEyoutube]<\/span><\/p>\n

A web page duplicate of the video is provided next for those who prefer to read and for more leisurely study.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This video is about Tai Chi and Full Body Power<\/span><\/p>\n

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Many people use their body as if it is separate parts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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These people behave as if the arms, legs, torso and head are all separated from each other and work independently of each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

This picture shows the right arm of a person extended towards another human being.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The person with the extended arm will be treated as if he uses his body as separate parts.<\/span><\/p>\n

If this person were to punch the other person he would use only his arm to hit the person.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tai_Chi_Full_Body_Power-ArmOnlyPunchMP4.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the body stays where it is and does not contribute any force to the punch.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is a picture of the back of a human being.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the back is welded into one piece it behaves like a triangular shape as shown by the lines.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This triangle can rotate about the spine.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the next part of the demonstration, only the torso and the arms are shown.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Both arms and the torso behave as one big connected piece. The black cylinder represents the spine that the back rotates around.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the person extends his arm to punch, the arm pulls that side of the back forward because the back is<\/span>
\nfree to pivot around the spine.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tai_Chi_Full_Body_Power-OverheadConnectedPunchingMP4.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

Because Tai Chi has welded the person\u2019s back into one big piece, when the right side of the back rotates forward,<\/span><\/p>\n

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the left side of the back must rotate backwards.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Instead of punching with just the arm,<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tai_Chi_Full_Body_Power-ArmOnlyPunchMP4.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

the entire body is involved in the punch.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tai_Chi_Full_Body_Power-OverheadConnectedPunchingMP4.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a profile view comparison of the two different styles of punching.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The first punch uses only the arm itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tai_Chi_Full_Body_Power-ArmOnlyPunchMP4.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

The arm is then moved back into the ready position.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the person throws a full body punch, the punching arm and that side of the back move forward, as the other arm and that side of the back retract.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This object will represent an outside force.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the person punches with their arm only, the arm acts like this force is pushing it from directly behind.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tai_Chi_Full_Body_Power-ForceObjectBehindShoulderPunchMP4.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is the force object placed by the opposite shoulder.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the person punches with full body power, the arm acts like it is being pushed forward by the opposite shoulder.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Just like the example punching arm extends while the other arm retracts.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tai_Chi_Full_Body_Power-OverheadConnectedPunchingMP4.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The video linked in this blog entry discusses how Tai Chi uses full body power to make it’s techniques so powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tai-chi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.happehtheory.com\/HappehKungFu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}