Friday, August 31, 2012

Large and Small Postures (大小勢) from the Chang Family Comprehensive Theory of Martial Arts (萇氏武技全書)

大小勢

合勢不嫌其小,欲氣合得足也;開勢不嫌其大,欲力發得出也。非徒長身為大,屈身為小。
力是自然之力,故初學必以不著力為是。

萇乃周
"In closing postures one should not mind it being small, they need sufficient unification of qi. In opening postures do one should not mind it being large; they need to release the force. It is not just a matter of expanding the body to make it great or contracting it to make it small.
Power is spontaneous power, for beginners the use of force is necessarily not correct."

From the book Chang Family Comprehensive Theory of Martial Arts (萇氏武技全書), by Cháng Nǎizhōu (萇乃周), based on the translations by Douglas Wile in "T'Ai Chi's Ancestors: The Making of an Internal Art" and Marnix Wells in "Scholar Boxer: Chang Naizhou's Theory Of Internal Martial Arts And The Evolution of Tàijíquán"

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