I haven't experienced it yet first hand because i didn't have the chance to meet someone who has these skills, but from what I'm observing in the video, he is actually not jumping. Master Yap's arms are low and are moving in a diagonal upwards and forwards, pushing from his center, up into the center (Hip area) of the body of the other person. It is hard to catch, but you have to know that in southern styles (Wing Chun is also an example of that) the direction of the force goes through the elbows, leaving the forearm "empty" figure of speach. Relaxed, but stable and just as a way to connect to actually apply the force send from the center of the body through the elbows.. The strings are also just a metaphor for an experience on how after the right conditioning there is a strong connection from the feet all the way trough the body. Probably just feels like their are strings and actually something else is going on. Don't know if it works differently in TaiJi, which is a style from the north and very likely has a different way of "hiding" the true direction of the force.
Compliance. There is an effect that can be achieved by manipulating his structure, raising his centre of gravity, and giving him a little push, but it's incredibly hard to do in a "live" situation, and will at best create a moment, for you to attack with something else. It's one of those weird rabbit holes that Eastern systems tend to go down, when they're no longer grounded in war, or street fighting.
@@indefenceofthetraditionalma The initial effect is real, but that jumping and shuffling backwards is 100% fake - but there is social pressure within the group to do it as well as the power of suggestion. It may be that a seminar situation was set up, and he was demonstrating on people who are not his usual students - hence the laugh, when the chap did his little moonwalk...
It's not internal energy. It is physics. That is what it is and the field of physics regarding this is biomechanics. It's not qi, strings or any of this woo woo. It is structure to hold, ground reaction force back up and into the opponent, then body weight and movement to move him.
The use of energy by the person in this video has nothing to do with the science of physics. Along with Adam and a couple of others, for me Heong works alongside a group of snake oil salesmen. @@Eternaprimavera73
This is basic stuff. Notbing mystical or qi. One guy is connected and and the other is hard and compliant like a piece of wood. Just a testing technique like posture testing. Of course, ppl will jump on it saying it wouldnt work in thr ring. Neither woul their warm techniques or mounting a crazy drunk on the sidewalk.
Yeah please do, you will be surprised. Its good to be skeptical, but you need to differentiate between the real practitioners and bullshitters in internal arts. Its also not like he is saying that he can move mountains with this force, its just a different way of building the body. Peace
@@indefenceofthetraditionalma if you want to see it in live action, see the video of Tui Shou Chen having a friendly spar with Marcelo Garcia at a joint Tai Chi BJJ seminar for some Karate club in NYC. He does it to Marcelo a few times and sends him flying back. Of course he has trouble with a lot of the champ is doing but his standup anti grapple defense is really good. Ofcourse, Tui Shou Chen is actually a competitor internationally. in push hands. But, yeah it shows it can be done against real resistance. Personally I don’t find it very useful, I think its better to stay close and neutralize and bouncing them back resets that taking of their space but I’m sure it has some use in competition which is his arena. Basically it’s just a physics thing. And probably used to get a “ring out.” But in a self defense situation. Not very useful. It’s the only context in which someone will grab you in this manner.
Good demonstration of Tai Chi application from the Tai Chi sifu OSS. As long as they make the disclaimer that this exercise is beneficial but limited to the agreed rules of the participants.
Besides the fact that he is not a Taiji Practitioner, he said loud in clear "this is just for demonstration" He is not telling them that you can send people flying in a fight. So the disclaimer was right in the video. He is just explaining how force generation works differently in the style he practices and you don't need to pull back or make big motions to do so. It is different from how boxers generate force and different from how TaiJi Practitioners do. Also the expression OSS is japanese ( I assume you mean the sound japnaese style Karetakas make), while Taji is chinese. He is also teaching Nei Gong which is for health, but here he is teaching Wuzuquan. A southern Kung Fu MMA style who is mixing 5 Kung Fu styles together into one system which was passed down in his family.
