Richard Clear – Absorbing & Projecting With Hua & Fa Jin

Richard Clear – Absorbing & Projecting With Hua & Fa Jin

2.23 GB

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Hua Jin, or “Neutralizing”, is one of the hallmarks of real Tai Chi Chuan. Hua Jin is a skill built to absorb incoming force with your whole body, position, and structure, without “eating it.”

It is more than just being able to take a punch:

With proper Hua Jin, your assailant might feel as if they were hitting a curtain- or a tree. In either case, the practitioner avoids damage.

Fa Jin is almost the opposite idea:

-to project force in such a way your opponent can not neutralize it- intentionally or otherwise.

Fa Jin can be very diverse, and it comes from application of many different skills, rather than only one.

Tai Chi may seek balance, but it is often through study of the extremes.

By mastery of Hua Jin, you learn to move your center and create an imbalance-

and that imbalance keeps you safe because you put others on the short end of the lever.

By mastery of Fa Jin-

the practitioner learns to take advantage of their opponent’s balance, imbalance, or inability to shift between them.

Practice of Fa Jin teaches you to use your opponent’s own leverage against them.