It took me years to get peng jin down and working, but when you get it :)

Would loved to have you as a sifu back in the day, when I was was young & Fit. Best videos on KZfaq by a metric mile.

Sifu Chan, could you please consider writing a book or a course about how to build martial art foundation?

so exited for the announcement!

Totally looking forward to your book!

Love your content, resonates a lot with the little foundation I know and will enable me to go further, once I resume practice 😂😅 I'd say for this particular one it widened and even patched a crack in my perception of the base level, great great great, I'm hooked, keep those gems coming, great learning from you remotely from the other side of the country 😁👍👍🙏🙋‍♀️

Peng in Taijiquan starts with relaxation, without that peng in Taijiquan isn’t workable. With proper peng, you should be able to push into someone’s aligned force directly and cause them to uproot and shift back with no more than maybe a pound of force. So strength is not significantly important beyond that needed for posture. Taijiquan is also comparatively slow in actual usage when compared to the speed of non peng arts. Yiquan, as far as I know doesn’t discuss peng or use peng, and some of its movement geometries are incompatible with peng. Xin Yi Liu He’s postures are also often incompatible with peng, as is Dai Xinyi (although Dai Xinyi and Xin Yi Liu He use similar principles). So Taijiquan, Yiquan, and the Xinyi’s form three groups, each with distinct governing principles. Taijiquan uses peng, the Xinyi’s use dantien rotation (Xinyi’s concept of a dantian is different than Taijiquan’s), and Yiquan uses a type of body integrity that does not employ either peng or Xinyi’s dantien rotation. The principle all of them have in common is they each generate force and train intention in accord with a single organizing principle (unique for each group).

Sifu, would you be able to show some flow on the wooden dummy? At least one example of something you would practice yourself?

I would love to hear more about emotional cultivation. What is that? Is it the same thing as Bruce Lee's "emotional content"? (In quotes because he said it, not to show disrespect.)

Its like learning to swim but can you stop swimming and just float thats chi to float . The way you can explain this concentration your punch outward then snap your fingers out can you feel the energy going out from your palm or fingertips you should feel like a wave moving outward thats Chi . It does exist to a point . But just to walk by someone and touch them and they die uhmmm I doubt that but your inner energy can and will make you hit harder . Thats a fact