If you lock your lower body, and turn your palm from up to down, or down to up(so that your thumb rotates 360 degrees), you see your elbow moves in a swinging motion. Now if you turn your palm, and restrict the movement of your elbow, you see that your entire body needs to rotate in order for the elbow to remain stationary. This is the secret of taiji, the isolation of either the elbow, waist, or knee in order to force a full body rotation. This is how you generate maximum power and leverage with your body.
The object is to generate power by creating separation. Yin yang separation means separating soft and hard. Think when you walk. One foot has to be fixed to the ground, the other has to be totally free. In order to transmit power in order to walk you have to isolate and restrict the movement of parts of your body.
Where it becomes challenging is to learn to isolate parts of the body without physical restraint. When you walk, you have the physical restraint of the ground, but what about your hips, knees or elbows?
Taiji forms teach you how to do this, unconsciously.
Take for example the lead hook, if you perfectly isolate the lead leg then the hook comes out effortlessly by rotating the waist. But isolating it is very difficult without physical restraint, so we use muscle power to throw the hook, and give up technical power. Or we make exaggerated motions like shifting weight to the lead leg so it doesn't buckle while we turn the waist.
Picture a soyboy throwing a punch. Picture it as their entire body staying stiff and only their arm moving. Their punch is obviously going to be extremely weak.
Now picture a boxer throwing a punch. Their feet will be spaced apart in a boxer's stance. They will wind up their punch. And then by shifting their weight, twisting their body, and even pushing off with their feet, they will follow through with a punch that has nearly every muscle working together to throw a strong punch with as much weight, momentum, and leverage behind it as possible.
Anything from throwing a punch, to swinging a baseball bat, to turning a wrench - If you understand how your muscles and joints work, weight distribution, leverage, etc, you can get more power out of your body.
Apparently, someone decided that the study of this needed to have a name. So someone in some part of the world came up with the name the "secret of taiji". And there's probably a thousand different words that mean the same thing.
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Where it becomes challenging is to learn to isolate parts of the body without physical restraint. When you walk, you have the physical restraint of the ground, but what about your hips, knees or elbows?
Taiji forms teach you how to do this, unconsciously.
Take for example the lead hook, if you perfectly isolate the lead leg then the hook comes out effortlessly by rotating the waist. But isolating it is very difficult without physical restraint, so we use muscle power to throw the hook, and give up technical power. Or we make exaggerated motions like shifting weight to the lead leg so it doesn't buckle while we turn the waist.
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Picture it as their entire body staying stiff and only their arm moving.
Their punch is obviously going to be extremely weak.
Now picture a boxer throwing a punch.
Their feet will be spaced apart in a boxer's stance.
They will wind up their punch.
And then by shifting their weight, twisting their body, and even pushing off with their feet, they will follow through with a punch that has nearly every muscle working together to throw a strong punch with as much weight, momentum, and leverage behind it as possible.
Anything from throwing a punch, to swinging a baseball bat, to turning a wrench - If you understand how your muscles and joints work, weight distribution, leverage, etc, you can get more power out of your body.
Apparently, someone decided that the study of this needed to have a name. So someone in some part of the world came up with the name the "secret of taiji".
And there's probably a thousand different words that mean the same thing.