Drill by teacher Gu Yongzhong (in Hefei, April 2020)
Wuyuan Gong
Created by teacher Ma Shixiang
The technique of improvement in this boxing system. It consists of nine formulas. After mastering the various powers of boxing, the focus is on the exploration and cultivation of mental skills. This method starts from acquired conditioned methods, and then goes deep into the realm of innate helplessness. When you are enlightened, you know everything, and everything is consistent; when you are Yuan, you know the great beginning, everything is tolerated, and everything is impossible to be prepared for. These nine postures cover the existence, distance, height, size, speed, tightness, hardness and softness, virtuality and reality, movement and stillness, retraction and release, opening and closing, posture, etc. in boxing. At the same time, this exercise introduces the kneading and turning in Baguazhang, which has higher requirements on the transformation of footwork and the change of direction. Scholars should focus primarily on state of mind at this stage. Once you have practiced this method for a long time, you cannot become attached to it. If you can learn it and transform it, if you can grasp it and understand it, if you see a leaf and know the autumn of the world, if you taste a piece of meat and know the taste of a tripod, if the heart changes with the situation, and the situation changes with the intention, then you can understand the realm of boxing.
1. Both hands divide the competition (Qinglong Exploring Claws)
2. Rotate waist and arms (rhinoceros looking at the moon)
3. Sit down to avoid the rain (watching the rain from half a window)
4. Advance support (holding the moon in your arms)
5. Sitting with your chest in your arms (reining your horse to listen to the wind)
6. Push the spine (pushing against the current)
7. Sitting with cross hands (chasing rats all over the ground)
8. Progressive Eyebrow Stake (The Roar of Dragons in the Sea) 9. Return to Basics (Tide Watching in the South China Sea)
Machine-translated from the Chinese original 太极拳之悟元功 (published 2020-04-08). WeChat original ↗