This strategy work well in challenge fight. When your opponent finds out that he can't block all your punches, the challenge fight can stop there. Being able to scare your opponent (without hurting him) can be a good way to stop a fight.
I'm not talking about Yang Taiji form. I'm talking about that Chen Taiji power generation video. One day someone asked me, "Why did he punch without moving his feet?" I didn't have my answer because I didn't know why?
Makes good sense to me. He uses angular momentum instead of linear momentum (rotation insted of step), power is generated by using hips and torso, without changing his center of mass. So he generates power while maintaining a rooted stable stance.
Pulling off a sequence fast, requires training the actual combo on the bag. So that it is like "one reflexive sequence" rather than 4 punches in a row. But to make it fast it's hard to maintain guared, so during the machine gun execution, your other hand is loading before the other hand lands, so no guard. At least how I do it on the bag. To take the state via intermediate guared makes it too slow for me.
Yeah. Think of a combo as a single move. As Ed Parker would put it, "Not C-A-T, but CAT." Not three letters, just one word.
One hand guards (or checks, grabs or immobilizes), the other attacks, then the attacking hand becomes guard as the guard hand becomes the attacking hand. In Okinawan, this is called findi. Don't reload/rechamber but launch the next attack from the guard position. This way you are pretty close to always being guarded. Moving your body offline, or the opponent's body offline during the attack will also help keep him from countering.
If you only use hip and torso, you can generate power but not maximum power. You don't use full body momentum at all. Since your opponent is a moving object, without moving your feet, your mobility is another concern.
I misunderstood your question that included - āpunch" exist in the Taiji world?ā - as TJQ in general
Just because you don't constantly jump around during actual punching, doesnt mean you are glued to the floor during the whole fight. I see occasions when power generation that way can be useful. For example if you are attacked/pushed and want to strike. Backing while striking is probaly not good, and falling forward when you get pushed is hard. Then such a strike might have alot of power, especially if your opponent runs into you - sort of adding that extra impulse ("borrowed energy" what they sometimes call it) that you didnt get from falling forwards?
You don't need to jump around. But you do need to spring forward. Here are 2 examples. Both punches use forward foot work and full body momentum.
My teachers teach that you should never move your feet when you kick or punch. However, in the beginner training we do a move where you step and punch and your whole leg moves. I asked my sifu and he said it's because that is a different method of power generation. He didn't explain, which means that was supposed to be enough to warn me not to use that method of power generation everywhere. This is how they taught. Later on when I asked for confirmation of an idea he would tell me it was correct or incorrect.
Ok, tell you what. Tell me the whole poem and I will tell you why you don't move your foot when you punch! Although you may be surprised to know there are a lot of Chen style people, especially in Taiwan, that move their foot in various ways when they punch. And, they do it on purpose.
I have seem CXW's Fajin video for a long time. Until several weeks ago someone mentioned about "not moving feet", I didn't notice that before.
Taiji has almost all the punching tools (except overhand).
Push is not punch.
Your context presumes you start disengaged. Ie your target is 2m in front of you.
We are not talking about different techniques. We are talking about "maximum power generation" here.
In Dempseyās mechanics, a punch is essentially a push delivered with bodyweight in motion ā short contact, high acceleration, and an impulse designed to shock the target. Mechanically they use the same chain (ground ā legs ā torso ā arm), just arranged for a different timing and intention.
Whole lot of telegraphing going on there. So if you can only hit hard with whole body momentum, then all I have to do is cut your momentum short, or stop it. Or with that much telegraphing, just get out of the way and counter
