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What is “peng”?
It didn’t occur to me that other languages also have onomatopoeia (of course they do) until Tom Bailor explained it to me like this: “Boing!” Master George Xu explained it like this: “Too hard — furniture gets tipped over. Too soft — tofu gets squished.” Other teachers have explained it by likening the body to…
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On Opening the Elbow
Proper extension of the arm, especially in the context of issuing power (fa jin), requires coordinated, inverse action between the shoulder and the elbow. As the elbow opens, the shoulder must be actively drawn in — that is, moved away from the point of contact. The opening action in the elbow is not the basic…