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Researchers ask these questions: But where is the stuff of neijin? Can you as a Taijiquan practitioner tap into neijin to beat back a bully? How does Qi meld in with muscle actions? From the perspective of Classical Tai Chi however, how does one form an "energy path"?
A logical place to start with is the waist, even if one never had lessons from Master Hwa. A researcher asks: But doesn't waist power indeed seem mundane in light of the grandioseness of neijin truly or falsely intimated, by lots of Taijiquan practitioners? Are we short or long on our potential to produce the waist power that the human body is capable of? Do we or do we not have limits in our ability to improve upon it in training?
Any weekend golfer, tennis player, etc. can go on Youtube, find lots of videos where they are told to use their "waist". I would say, however, they know very well the limits of their drives even after private "lessons. So where is Neijin? Does Tiger Woods or Roger Federer have it, because they have waist power, can they do a one-inch punch, should be easy right? Isn't fajin a rather simple action after all? One steps on the gas and it goes so why not Tiger...but wait a minute hasn't he had numerous surgeries for his knees, etc? So it has to be something else like perhaps a regulation, control of the body in a Tai Chi way.
It would seem that all of Tiger's motion is coming from the power of the torso meandering into the legs and knees with all of the attendant injuries. So isn't it logical to assume that the area below the waist, let's call it so the hips should be Tai Chi regulated? So as a car the wheels cannot be unaligned so that tires are not uneven, who wants tires that sputter off the road. We have talked about a "whip-like" action in Fajin, with no attendant "reaction force" just see Master Hwa's Youtube video on Fajin.
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