Category: Six Harmonies 六合
Head-On Lantern 照面燈
Hidden Blossoms Applications 藏花應用方法
Hidden Blossoms 葉底藏花
Phantom Arrow 鬼箭手
Go see our sticky post up top for a full explanation.
Fanning-Hand 仙手奔
Circular Motion 圈勁
It’s all about Control
Write-up later.
Strikes and Takedowns
The main points here are improvisation and connectivity. Since we don’t go into a fight knowing how the opponent is going to react, we can’t have a predetermined method of approach and a set way to end the fight.
The method is to engage the opponent with credible threats, so he is forced to react to your actions; thereby giving you the initiative and a quicker route to get inside his decision/action loop. You don’t have to be really fast, just a bit faster than his cycles would be enough. This is how you dictate the terms to him. What you do depends entirely on what the opponent is giving you.
Conflicting Force 爭力 (zhēng lì)
For any attack to be effective, the attack has to land where the opponent is not defending, i.e. the open part of his body. This is easier said than done, as any person will naturally put up their arms in defence in face of an attack, unless they are surprised or slow to react. Therefore,…
