Wednesday, February 17, 2010

"Soft" Power



I thought this was an interesting experiment in "soft" or "internal" power, going from a completely relaxed state to the delivery of power. At the end you see him begin a Yang-style Tai Chi Chuan form, which ties the concepts together.
More thoughts on this later...

2 comments:

Terry said...

Thanks for posting this. His stuff looks pretty cool.

Littlefair said...

Wow. This looks really intriguing DR!

What I find interesting is this almost 'shimmer' into a solid state, only to slide straight back to softness.

Many other styles achieve this in different ways but I was fascinated to see he didn't seem to be overtly using his breath to exact this movement. Does breath play a role at all in this? Is it internal? There is no kiai but that's not to say his breath isn't being used...

Looking forward to the follow up.