#sun style

[kungfu-scifi-highschool]

[taijiandqigong]

Sun Style Stepping

The StepWhen bringing the rear foot forward, it shouldn’t lift up as though stepping over an object – this raises the energy.Similarly, when the rear foot is placed to complete the Bow stance, the rear heel shouldn’t be lifted high off the floor.If it is, the hip on the same side as the rear foot tends to lift, and destabilises the body; or to put it another way, the energy cannot sink completely…

[corevirtua]

135° Right side: Sun, Jian-Yun (daughter of Sun, Lu-Tan [founder of Sun Style Tai Chi]) talking about having the leg angle at 135° while practicing Sun Style taijiquan. Left side: 'Discobolus' statue by Myron. I've overlaid the graphics, with the degree angle calculated by Photoshop. You can see the measurement output in the top left corner: 135° The RED line I've added shows the 'structural line' of power, and not the alignment of the tibia and fibula. Assuming the root/power is centered in the middle of the foot, where the red line ends.

[kungfu-scifi-highschool]

Sun Lutang's Baguazhang

Sun shi Baguazhang

[johncosma]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=her0-h-pVIs)

Single Whip and Part Wild Horse’s Mane from Sun Style Taijiquan

[alex-a23]

Initial Completion

Last night I learned the final animal of Sun style BaGua, The monkey. So for right now I'm in a state of initial completion. I know the single, double, and eight empty hand animal palm changes.

Nothing is "finished", soon we will move on to the fine tuning and fine tuning and fine tuning and fine tuning. However for right now I'm pretty satisfied with where I am in BaGua. Someday there will be deer horn knives and tai chi and xing yi. Someday we might even get a curriculum. There are a lot of possibilities and a lot of hard work ahead, but I'm not afraid.

You never really "finish" learning anything, especially not in Martial arts, but you do get these little moments before you start all over again and build on what you learned.

I'm very proud of this.