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 a big water-balloon where a push on one part causes an expansion of another, or a Weeble (“Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down”).

In practice, it is achieved through an omni-directional expansion of the joints so that synovial fluid is evenly distributed throughout the space between the bones. The result is a fully integrated body that maintains its structure in response to force and conjures a feeling of automatic accommodation through effortless changes in position.