Power at the Speed of Thought: How Tai Chi's Neijin Overcomes Raw Speed and Power

That was good. Okay, so your force came back. Your pressure is building up, but the extracorporeal qi is already misaligning your qi. The pung is already misaligning. Push him back. Yeah, yeah. So he would like his pung to have that effect, right? Come again. So basically, if you're a master of extracorporeal ling qi and tai chi, then you get to act before he gets to fully fire his shot. Does that make sense? And what is that like on your end? As I'm about to launch my power, it's already like taken over by your own. Watch yours and you try to stop mine. Deflect my force like this, right? See? Oh man. Or if I'm on the inside, you try to like press down on me like this. He lost his shoe this time. It's quite challenging, but if you apply your tai chi energy, yeah, and try with the forward one. All right, let's continue. So now you know a form of internal power use, the hydraulic-like bodily qi power from the xingyi, from the golden bell. That is, it's very aggressive, very forceful, and different from tai chi's power, which controls the ling qi, the extracorporeal qi around this. So how does it differ to you so far? It's very like power-driven, almost like a train coming in. Yeah. Just really blasting through someone. Yeah, it's like a train blasting through someone. This guo shu guan xingyi is very much like that, yes. And then what do you think we'll do about it from a tai chi standpoint? Probably because it's power-hungry, I'd try either ward off if I could, or just split, or yield. Yeah. So when we are discussing the difference between the qi within our body and the qi outside of our body, so go like this for a second. So qi within our body, so yeah, when we build up the pressure, there's a kind of a build-up time before he gets shot back, okay? So even if I do it pretty well like this, there's still, you know, like maybe like a 5.7 second where you're being compressed, and then you get overwhelmed, right? And then come again, and then when we do the qi outside your body, right away he goes. That's a clue. That's a clue right there of how tai chi would work with this. Do you know what the clue is? It's okay if you don't. So it's like, the faster the one outside is better if dealing with someone fast using that, the linear techniques? Yes, you're on the right track. So, because we don't have that build-up time, when you use a extracorporeal link qi, right, you get to act first. So before his pressure reaches, so you step forward and you do like a, which of the singing moves do you like doing? The uppercut, the split, the forward punch? The forward punch. Okay, the forward punch. Go ahead and do a good one to my hand and just send me away if you can. Yes! Okay, so that's pretty good. Relax your body a little bit more and really let your qi like hydraulically build up and shoot out your hand. Yeah, that's better. That was cleaner, wasn't it? Yes. One more time if you can. You can take a step if you want. Yeah, like that. Okay, don't hold your hand back. You can let your hand extend. Okay. And just calibrate you have a really good one. That was good. Okay, that was great. All right, so go ahead and do that. Great. What happened? My force came back to me. Yeah, so what did I do? External qi, the extracorporeal qi. Yeah. And it felt like a wave, like a little mini wave. Yeah, so come again. So okay, so that time I didn't really do it too much. Okay, so go ahead and do your best to push me back. Yeah, so that's good. Okay, come again. Yes! Okay, so I applied the pung before he got his pressure fully built up. I actually lifted your hand a little bit more than I like. So let's come again. Go ahead. Yeah, I didn't move that time. So your force came back. Your pressure is building up, but the extracorporeal qi is already misaligning your qi. The pung is already misaligning you. That make sense? Yes. Okay, come again. That's a g this time. You see how you bounce back more this time? So that time, as we make contact, my shield's already there. And then your force, before you can generate the force into me, it's already being pulled back. So there's different things you can do. Come again. What's that? You should know this one. You're right. That's the spiraling downward. Pluck and go ahead. Push. This is your lia. And yeah, and you could redirect right into roll back. Push. But I didn't want to show that at first because I feel like I'm just chickening out, running, redirecting you. We don't have to redirect. Go ahead and do your best move. See? We could just reflect it right back with qi, basically. So I'm doing all through my palm, so it's not so obvious. But if you put your fist on my, and then you apply the pressure pushing back. Yeah, yeah. So he would like his bung to have that effect, right? Come again. So basically, if you're a master of the extracorporeal ling qi and tai chi, then you get to act before he gets to fully fire his shot. Does that make sense? And what is that like on your end? I can't, it's like as I'm about to launch my power, it's already like taken over by your own. Already taken over by an agent. Yes. Yeah. So that's a very good way of describing what happens. So my effect is happening like pretty much instantly, while his effect is lining up and getting ready to go. So let's say he's a really good like high jumper, or long jumper, right? And so do a long jump. You don't really have to do it, but just, yeah, right. So if he's about to do a long jump, go and do a long jump again. That was me, but does that make sense? I'm messing up your setup. While you're going down to jump, go to do a long jump, while you're going down and kind of like misalign his posture, then it's not going to be an effective jump. So that's kind of what it's like. It's like while you're building up your pressure to fire me up, go ahead, do it. While the pressure is building up to go, right? In that 0.5 seconds, I've already interfered with that process. I've stepped something into the barrel. And so that works that way. Make sense? Yes. Well, I guess it's only fair that after I picked on him with this couple of times that you do it a few times to me. So put your head, let me calibrate my function to be good. Okay. Function time. So here like this. Okay. So if I'm generating power like that, right? So here. Now you can do whichever one Tai Chi techniques you want to do. As you feel that's happening, right? So that's hilarious. That's a rug pull. Yep. Yeah. That's nice. So I felt like my structure collapsed. Yeah. Very nice. Did you do Pung or Ji that time? It wasn't quite clear to me. I was trying to do a Pung, but then with an upward. Okay. Yeah. Felt right. Like a Pung Lie or something. I don't know. Exactly. It was definitely upward or definitely forward. I wasn't sure which one you did. Okay. One more time. That works too. I don't know what I was trying to do, but yeah, that's fine. But how did you feel doing those things too against me? It's surprisingly effortless. Surprisingly effortless. Whereas if you did like, if you did not use your internal martial arts and you try to stop my, deflect my force like this, or if I'm on the inside, you try to like push down on me like this, it's very, you lost a shoe. It's quite challenging. But if you apply your Tai Chi energy, yeah. And try one of the forward ones too. So we're here like this. Then how did that feel compared to just trying to use your leverage and geometry? It just saved me time so I can deal with something else. Absolutely. Because I was left very vulnerable in those situations. So that's how the extracorporeal Ling Chi and the Nei Jin that developed from that can deal with even very powerful bodily Chi. Does that make sense? Is that interesting? Yes. Any thoughts or questions? It seemed like this structure here, the Pung, looks like it was a shield, an actual shield. Is that correct? It can actually be used as, you know, like harnessing a, like wearing a shield and then using those energies. Yeah, it's a shield. In Chinese we call it a bridge or a frame, right? I don't know. I guess we call it a bridge. Frame is what like modern martial arts calls that kind of thing, a long frame, long guard. So yeah, it's just something that's there, takes up all this space. They have to get past it and put your hands up. So I have to get, you do your word off. So I have to get around that. I have to hit around that somehow. So now my awareness is on it and then you can be aware of my awareness and you can interact with my actions to that in different ways. So yeah, you're right that it has that kind of quality and usage. I've seen some Xing Yi, like practitioners online. Yeah. It's an actual shield that perhaps it was used, you know. Maybe. I don't know. I mean, the art came from that perhaps. I don't know. Yeah. In Chinese military, shield saber is a common weapon combination. So that kind of makes sense too. I don't have direct knowledge of how that was related or not. I know for sure about spear, but it's very possible that they were masters of it, that light shield and sword, or they were placed into a situation where they fought with shield and sword and apply their skill and energy very effectively. It's true. Like if you think about this uppercut, right? The uppercut that deflects me, that is like holding a shield, right? Oh, right. And you can just like ram the shield and flatten my arm and then, you know, skewer me, cut me, punch me or whatever. Does that make sense? Yes. I could see how that would work. So I like the line of thought. I just don't have proof off the top of my head. Got it. Yeah. So very cool. Good job on your Xing Yi. Good job on doing your Tai Chi to deal with that kind of tremendous power. So it's interesting to see how that works, isn't it? Yes. Any other questions or thoughts? I'm sure they'll come in time. All right. Thank you for helping me illustrate this. Thanks for watching. See you next time.