texts "Yiquan / DaChengQuan duanshou shuyao" (short paper on how to deal with yiquan / DaChengQuan) and "Yiquan / DaChengQuan Shiyong fangfa zhi" (Method practice yiquan / DaChengQuan) belatedly published and attributed to the founding master Wang Xiangzhai are quite challenged in China by various experts in this boxing. Even if the authenticity of these texts is not really recognized by most experts and Yiquan masters alive today, the explanations contained in the first of these writings are very interesting and particularly reveals a writer who mastered his subject, and the vocabulary to explain the mechanisms. Knowing that most of the writings of Wang Xiangzhai were made by his close followers, or with the help of these concerns, we will thus little strict about the unlikely authenticity of such statements. Here is a brief excerpt (personal translation):
"The Duanshou (NDT: a kind of" offensive defense "or how to" get into the opponent to counter " ) is the science of using energy spontaneously, without have previously established method.
movement and stability while two follow certain principles and rules that are neither partial nor localized, often used by other schools and other schools of boxing. These principles and rules, precise and profound, are "simple in appearance but complex in content." That's why it qualifies the Yiquan / DaChengQuan very thorough knowledge of following a path very commonplace.
I have much discussed in other writings of the principles and rules of Yiquan / DaChengQuan, I want to emphasize in this book on an important point which is the method of "not having a method." This is the Taoist theory of "Without action, there is nothing that we can realize" (Wu wei wu wei bu). We also find here the Buddhist proverb that says: "In reality, all methods are contained in a vacuum." Thus, this technique of combat never borrows method.
Yet this approach, no method may be considered a method in itself. In applying it, the results are very different from the usual attacks and other drafts chaotic fighting since fighting technique of Yiquan / DaChengQuan from a spontaneous, resulting from natural reflexes. This spontaneity draws its strength from some basic principles and in a training capacity in the emotions, all coupled to the subtle movements. This spontaneous movement that respects the rules is, in fact, a faculty physiological conditioned reflex. In any movement formed unconsciously, not artificial gestures so natural as nursing a baby, there are rules. An artificial gesture is the result of a partial method and an unconscious gesture, a faculty of reflex.
Different "reflexes primary "seen in the newborn
All schools should voluntarily or involuntarily, respect principle to minimize our energy expenditure while increasing our performance in battle. During the daily training with spontaneous energy, the less technical and better the results. The techniques should be few but clear and overall. The simplicity in form marries with complexity in the intent. When the drive reaches a certain level, we can focus on one or two ways to attack and then develop our skill in these techniques until they become spontaneous reflexes. They become like nursing a baby or the manufacture of silk worms in the spring.
If this goal is achieved, it is naturally devoid of hesitation against the opponent, realizing then that is intentionally impractical and reaching the goal without them attention. "
Thus, this text explains the process in the transmission of the founding master of "do not teach techniques" but rather to train the body to certain reflexes conditioned by the work of assimilation of "physiological principles "such as learning the different directions of force (6 total) can be combined at will and freely. Techniques will therefore be freely created on time and without using the reflection from the ability to produce natural force, which will be acquired by zhanzhuang and three shili that are forward-backward, up and down opening-closing ...
Another important point highlighted in this presentation is the work of emotions and their control / coupling physical and psychological attitudes, a real work of building conditioned reflex. This work should help "return to its natural state (energy of heaven anterior / xiantianqi) and lead to defensive reactions from the principle of survival of nature. The natural function of survival, "the man standing" has forgotten to share life "comfortable" that leads into the company and appears in general that for some people and that in extreme situations, the therefore relegated entirely to the realm of the hypothetical, is unacceptable for a practitioner of martial arts ...
