Post by dgh on Dec 20, 2014 17:51:28 GMT
The moving or turning of the waist (Yao), side to side, expresses the Lower Dantian in a horizontal plane.
The movement of the spinal column (Ji) - the undulating (wave-like) motion when the thoracic (chest) and lumbar (lower back) move from convex to concave positions, expresses the Lower Dantian in the vertical plane.
Like a child's toy called the Etch-a-Sketch you have one knob that controls horizontal movement and makes a horizontal line and another knob that makes a vertical line. If you carefully turn both knobs at the same time then you can create a curved line.
Finding the power of the waist is the goal of the Lion system. To some people you don't even realize that there is a waist that can turn independently of the hips/pelvis. This is why it's called a 'Post-Heaven' power, as it's unnatural, and takes a lot of effort and training to have power in the 'Opening and Inward Sweeping strikes'.
But the other aspect to the waist is also using the Yaobei (Lumbar lit. Waist's Back), which is moved by 'Rolling the buttocks under' (tun gun) or what we just refer to as tucking and un-tucking the Tailbone (weilu)/ sacrum.
This movement of the lumbar has to be coordinated with the movement of the chest (xiong) and upper back (bei), and this is done by moving the thoracic vertebrae of the spine - 'Han Xiong Ba Bei' (Concaving the chest, rounding out the back). This movement of spine is simply referred to as 'shen fa' (torso methods) in contrast to 'Yao Fa' (waist [turning] methods).
The two main methods of the spine/ shen fa were dubbed 波浪劲 'Bolang Jin' (Surging Wave Power) and 翻浪劲 'Fanlang Jin' (Returning Wave Power).
In Yin style Baguazhang we devote all our focus on using and developing only the 波浪劲 'Bolang Jin' (Surging Wave Power) until you get to Kun trigram Unicorn system, and you have already built up the proper skill sets and internal development to safely use the method strategically, and safely able to handle the internal effects that happen to your Dantian. (But that's a whole other story, so even though I'll be posting a Xin-Yi Quan article that discusses both, the focus of and point of creating this thread is to add insight into learning just the 波浪劲 'Bolang Jin' (Surging Wave Power) of the spine, and combining it with the turning of the waist.)
So I first met Dr. Xie and He Jinbao early 1997. It was one of the first martial seminar's that HJB was at, but at this time he was still under XPQ's tutelage and hardly said a word. I practiced what I learned but tried to combine it with what little I'd already learned in Gao style BGZ, and later in '97 at the end of their seminar tour I saw them again. XPQ was tired from all the lecturing he'd done so was hardly ever there at this seminar but wanted to see what my practice looked like and the resulting mutant-combination an inside-out monster/ teleporter malfunction from the movie The Fly, was horrible. XPQ and HJB turned their heads in disgust.
We were practicing in a Yoga studio that had a carpeted sprung-floor so HJB took advantage of the soft-landing to throw me and others all over the room using Sweeping strikes. So feeling the power and knowing that it was something unnatural I was determined to understand it. Another year goes by and it's only HJB coming to the U.S. to do seminars, so I really focus on watching how he moves his spine this time. There's also some more videos available at that point, so I have a few of them to watch. So from 1998 to 1999 I just devote everyday towards learning the spinal movement while doing some basic strikes and a couple forms from the Lion.
It was an extremely frustrating year but despite some painful moments, some set-backs and the side-stitches that I always got when doing it at speed, I actually had something to show when XPQ and HJB came back in 1999, Winterpark seminar. The first morning we were all practicing in a big group but after a little while XPQ said spread out and go practice on your own, and was then walking around watching everyone. When he got around to watching me he just started glaring at me. He yelled for Andrew to come over and translate, "Where did you learn that?!". I was scared because I didn't know if I was doing something so wrong or what, so I just mumbled "Uhhh from uh, from Jinbao?". XPQ yelled for Jinbao to come over and had him watch me nervously practice. They exchanged words. And XPQ asked "Did you learn that from the videos?!". Still scared that I'd done something wrong, "Uhh ye.....s". Then he was happy and smiling he said something like "Up until now I was skeptical about filming videos but now that I see that it can work. I'll make more videos."
At the final lecture of that seminar XPQ told me what's happening in the spinal movement: Translation ~ {The tailbone quickly tucks under with force; this jolts the dantian upward but the diaphragm above forces power back through Mingmen point (Lumbar vertebrae); then the chest concaving and back rounding brings it up where it meets Dachui point (top of the thoracic vertebrae) and is diverted out to the shoulders and to the hands.}
Intention (Yi) controls which hand gets more power but in the Lion this is usually like 60/40%.
The whole spine is like a Bow (Gong), as in Bow & Arrow, so if you imagine an archer standing behind you, hand in the middle of your spine, string attached to your tailbone and other end attached to the top vertebrae that protrudes out like a 'big hammer' (Dachui), and draws the string back, and then 'Fa' (Issue) 'Li' (Power) like an archer releasing the string, your whole spine springs forward.
The lumbar and thoracic parts of the spine do not want to harmonize or coordinate their movements. They're used to working like two individual bows. So it takes a lot of time and training to 'Make/ unite two bows into One' as this movement is completely 'Post-Heaven' and even more unnatural then finding the turning of the waist.
It's counter-intuitive because it requires a sort of sinking downward and inward movement when you want to be propelling your arm upward and outward.
Jinbao said there's a saying for how long this coordinated movement takes to learn "They say that the new student needs to be locked inside the school for two years." Why locked in? "Because you don't want to go outside the school and try to use it in a fight. The harmonized movement is like a bread being baked that if you take it out before it's time it will just collapse. Or it's like building a house of cards where you have to have a strong first level of cards before you can start stacking actual weight on the cards/ building more levels." This is a physical thing as the tissues and bones need some condition and it's the complex mental work and thinking (Yinian) as you have to be conscious of several things moving and happening at basically the same time. "Like the inner workings of a watch or clock. If one small part doesn't move in coordination with other parts then the watch fails/ breaks". So keeping it all intact within your own mind is also why you don't want to learn other types of fighting methods or other martial arts as it will only reinforce old or different 'movement-patterns' that you're trying to avoid so that you can learn this one. Once this way of moving is fully ingrained (another interpretation of Changing Post-Heaven and Arriving/ obtaining the Pre-Heaven (unnatural is now natural)) then you can have and use both methods. But, really you will have 3 methods of power as holding back or containing (Hunyuan) a 'Fa Li' is a type of power in itself. The Snake system uses this.
There's not much written about the spinal column methods. There's no real instruction as everyone's body and their control over their own body is individualized and different. So there is some analogies that may work. And we could come up with many different analogies or metaphors but they're still just using words to try and convey something that is a highly personalized movement that has to be done in order to be learned. I learned by just watching and observing and that's how it's generally taught.
Start slow, moving very slowly but not too much time moving slow because there's things that you can move slowly that shouldn't actually be there or involved. So learning with some speed, not fast, and not seeking power. Power will come with coordinated movement. I tried to practice with power too soon and always got a side-stitch/ side-ache where it feels like your lung cramps up. Sometimes in one lung, sometimes both lungs. It's called something like 'Pian Qi or Pian Xi' (deviated breath) in Mandarin. (The fix to get rid of or alleviate it is to just repeat the Closing movement but really stretching your arms up high before bringing them back down.)
So, here's a Xinyi/ Xingyiquan text I'd translated that touches on some of the history of it, and more importantly shows how this spinal column (torso-method/ shenfa) is older than Baguazhang and was once a part of many different martial arts and in some sense is what adds "Internal Power" to the Chinese Martial Arts:
波浪劲·翻浪劲”体用功法精义解
作者：马国兴
或问曰：心意拳和形意拳，都强调攻防较技之施招用手、施手用招的“波浪劲”和“翻浪劲”的用法。但是，什么是“波浪劲”、“翻浪劲”的法式呢？在攻防较技中施手用招、施招用手中“波浪劲”和“翻浪劲”确实有什么优势吗？这是为什么？“波浪劲”和“翻浪劲”功夫容易修炼成功吗？这些问题敬请您老不吝赐教！
答曰：是的！心意拳和形意拳都是遵从“意气君来骨肉臣”的内家拳法宗旨修炼、至用的拳种，这一点从拳谱中就可以明确的看得出来。
懂劲：
意拳是内功拳之一种，其气沉丹田，着意蓄发内劲，不论横，竖、斜、缠、松、悍、合、坚等劲，均得成为周身一体之整劲，富有弹力之抖绝打击，对方即会腾空跌出，达到学以致用之目的。否则，徒具优美之姿势和理解应用之方法，但敌人不为所动，而失去攻防艺术的价值，这就是不懂劲之缘故。
从这段懂劲的认识之论述中就可以清楚的看出来了，心意拳、形意拳都是极为重视内劲修炼、运用方法的。而“波浪劲、翻浪劲”只不过是内劲运用中的两种方法的名称而已。
“波浪劲、翻浪劲”名称的来源及运用方法
为什么名曰：“波浪劲、翻浪劲”呢？
因为古拳谱《易筋经·贯气诀·点气论》中有：
似梦地着惊，似悟道忽省，似皮肤无意然火星，似寒侵骨髓打战悚，想情景，疾快猛，原来是真气泓浓。震雷迅发，离火焰烘，洪水波涌。欲学不悟个中窍，丢却别寻哪得醒？
文中的“洪水波涌”之说法，就蕴含着“波浪劲、翻浪劲”修炼和至用的方法。犹如海水波浪向海边撞击的方向，称之为“波浪劲”；海水撞击海岸反向大海方向形成的回浪，称之为“翻浪劲”。
以身中劲势的用法为例，内劲由会阴起向后背运动的劲势名之曰“波浪劲”，乃从“打人全凭盖势取”的意思而得名；内劲由会阴起向前胸运动的劲势名之曰“翻浪劲”，乃从“探马势顺势揭掀”的意思而得名。
其实，就“波浪劲、翻浪劲”的得名因由的方法中，已经清楚的说明了“波浪劲、翻浪劲”的基本运用方法了。例如：崩拳、劈拳运用“波浪劲”，炮拳、钻拳运用“翻浪劲”，效果最佳。
“波浪劲、翻浪劲”的修炼方法
“波浪劲、翻浪劲”都是由内功养生之道的“子午周天”法中内气“腹背周天”运行法修炼演化出来的内劲功夫。下面具体介绍“子午周天”功法和“腹背周天”功法的具体操作方法：
子午周天法
【功法步骤】
1、站、坐、卧的姿势皆可以，必须全身放松，平心静气，息气凝神。
{Understanding the Underlying Methods and the Required Training Practices of Bolang Jin (Surging/Crashing Wave Power) & Fanlang Jin (Returning Wave Power)
{By: Ma Guoxing
{Some questions people might ask: Xin-Yi Quan and Xingyiquan both emphasize the skills of attack and defense using the arms and hands. In order to have skill in the arms it requires the use of "Bolang Jin" (BLJ) & "Fanlang Jin" (FLJ). But what is BLJ, FLJ and how do they work? Inside attacking and defending is the usage of the hands and arms. Inside the usage of the hands and arms is BLJ and FLJ. So what is the advantage and why are they used? Do BLJ and FLJ require Daoist Cultivation practices to be good?
{Answer: Yes!
{Xin-Yi Quan and Xingyiquan both follow the idea that "Intent (Yi) and 'Qi' are the lords while the bones and flesh are their servants." and the key to Internal Family Boxing is Daoist Cultivation practices and from the Cultivation practices one will gain better fighting skills. This is pointed out in the handed down 'Quan Pu' that once this is understood than real skill will arrive.
{To understand power: Intention (Yi) expressed outward in fighting, needs to be the same as it's happening inside the body. 'Qi' is sunk down to 'Dantian'. Movement/ Action begins as the Intent (Yi) Stores-up (蓄 xù) then Issues (發 fā) internal power (内劲 nèijìn). It doesn't matter if it's Horizontal, Vertical, Slanted, Winding, Relaxed, Ferocious, Harmonizing, or a Strong type of power as they're all equal when it comes to the whole-body, integrated as-one, power. It's Elastic, Trembling, and Short when it strikes. The other person will rise up and fall when it goes out. To obtain this one has to study diligently and apply it regularly. If not then the student will only have graceful movements, maybe a decent understanding of it, but is still not be able to affect the opponent, then they lose the true value of the martial art and have an incomplete understanding of the way power is used.} [In other words, in the beginning these practices need to be raw, violent, and powerful and won't look graceful or clean so that one can first find the raw mechanical skill in their own body, and then later, when it does look skillful and crisp, there is actual power that makes it a martial art.]
{The second part to understanding power: Xin-Yi Quan and Xingyiquan both put great emphasis on the Internal Cultivation of Power and that there is a clear method to achieve it. BLJ and FLJ are really nothing more than a way to bring Internal Power out/ put it to use and both cultivate and grow the internal power of the body but are only just a given name to describe the process.
{As they're really only a name given to discern the methods, [Which is another key point - as names of the methods are just themselves words.] Then why do we call them: "BLJ and FLJ"?
{Because in the Ancient Boxing textbook "The Yi Jin Jing; Secrets of Moving Qi; and Theory of Qi Points" there is: [...several esoteric things I'm just gonna skip over...,] and returning back to one's original state where 'True Energy' (Zhen Qi) pools and concentrates. When the 'Zhen Trigram's' Thunder quickly Issues (發 fā), then the 'Li Trigram's' Fire blazes and heats, causing the Water to Surge Upward (洪水波涌 Hongshui Bo Yong). So the ancients in their quest to understand everything about the human body asked, since this is a natural function, how can we intentionally awaken it?
{In the classic writings of China, "洪水波涌 Hongshui Bo Yong", is another way to describe what happens in "BLJ and FLJ" and the Daoist Cultivation practices that go along with the methods. Since it's similar to the way the ocean waves crash and collide into the beach and as it's coming out from the body of water we call this method "BLJ"; After the wave has crashed into the coastline, is retreating back out to the sea, and forming the shape that makes a 'Returning Wave' (Hui Lang) we call this direction of 'returning to the body of water' the method of "FLJ".
{When using the middle of the body to generate Power and force - where the power comes up from the perineum (Huiyin Point) and around the back of the spine, we call this "BLJ",which is also called "Striking the enemy from over the top and putting a lid over their power", which isn't really the actual application, just a name; When power comes up from the perineum (Huiyin Point) and around the front of the chest, we call this "FLJ" and is also called "The Knight moves with the opponent's force and flips up the lid, exposing their insides", which again isn't really an application but just a name.
{In actuality "BLJ and FLJ" are just names for the methods of using the middle of the body [the torso] and only have meaning if one already has a basic understanding of their physical functions and usage as the names themselves don't really contain the instructions.
{Some examples: Beng Quan and Pi Quan can use "BLJ". Pao Quan and Zuan Quan can use "FLJ" to obtain optimal delivery of power.
{"BLJ and FLJ" use Internal Cultivation practices and both "BLJ and FLJ" follow Internal Health Practices (neigong) and follow the Daoist concepts of "Ziwu Zhou Tian" The Method of Gathering Internal Energy in the Middle and "Fu Bei Zhou Tian" The Moving Method of Cultivating , Moving, and Arriving at the true skill of internal power (Nei Jin Gong Fu). Below I will introduce the cultivation methods of these Practices (Neigong) and describe the steps in order to practice and utilized the Daoist concepts of "Ziwu Zhou Tian" and "Fu Bei Zhou Tian".
{"Ziwu Zhou Tian" Method -
{【功法步骤】 Steps of Progression
{1, Standing, Sitting, or Lying down Postures can all be used, but it's important that the whole body is relaxed, the mind is quiet, the energy is calm. Attention is put on the breath and energy.}
[The rest that text just goes on to talk about Cultivation Practices that are specific to Xingyiquan where all our Neigong (Internal Work) is happening withing our Standing (Zhan Zhuang) and Circle Turning (also called Zou Zhuang = Moving Standing).
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The movement of the spinal column (Ji) - the undulating (wave-like) motion when the thoracic (chest) and lumbar (lower back) move from convex to concave positions, expresses the Lower Dantian in the vertical plane.
Like a child's toy called the Etch-a-Sketch you have one knob that controls horizontal movement and makes a horizontal line and another knob that makes a vertical line. If you carefully turn both knobs at the same time then you can create a curved line.
Finding the power of the waist is the goal of the Lion system. To some people you don't even realize that there is a waist that can turn independently of the hips/pelvis. This is why it's called a 'Post-Heaven' power, as it's unnatural, and takes a lot of effort and training to have power in the 'Opening and Inward Sweeping strikes'.
But the other aspect to the waist is also using the Yaobei (Lumbar lit. Waist's Back), which is moved by 'Rolling the buttocks under' (tun gun) or what we just refer to as tucking and un-tucking the Tailbone (weilu)/ sacrum.
This movement of the lumbar has to be coordinated with the movement of the chest (xiong) and upper back (bei), and this is done by moving the thoracic vertebrae of the spine - 'Han Xiong Ba Bei' (Concaving the chest, rounding out the back). This movement of spine is simply referred to as 'shen fa' (torso methods) in contrast to 'Yao Fa' (waist [turning] methods).
The two main methods of the spine/ shen fa were dubbed 波浪劲 'Bolang Jin' (Surging Wave Power) and 翻浪劲 'Fanlang Jin' (Returning Wave Power).
In Yin style Baguazhang we devote all our focus on using and developing only the 波浪劲 'Bolang Jin' (Surging Wave Power) until you get to Kun trigram Unicorn system, and you have already built up the proper skill sets and internal development to safely use the method strategically, and safely able to handle the internal effects that happen to your Dantian. (But that's a whole other story, so even though I'll be posting a Xin-Yi Quan article that discusses both, the focus of and point of creating this thread is to add insight into learning just the 波浪劲 'Bolang Jin' (Surging Wave Power) of the spine, and combining it with the turning of the waist.)
So I first met Dr. Xie and He Jinbao early 1997. It was one of the first martial seminar's that HJB was at, but at this time he was still under XPQ's tutelage and hardly said a word. I practiced what I learned but tried to combine it with what little I'd already learned in Gao style BGZ, and later in '97 at the end of their seminar tour I saw them again. XPQ was tired from all the lecturing he'd done so was hardly ever there at this seminar but wanted to see what my practice looked like and the resulting mutant-combination an inside-out monster/ teleporter malfunction from the movie The Fly, was horrible. XPQ and HJB turned their heads in disgust.
We were practicing in a Yoga studio that had a carpeted sprung-floor so HJB took advantage of the soft-landing to throw me and others all over the room using Sweeping strikes. So feeling the power and knowing that it was something unnatural I was determined to understand it. Another year goes by and it's only HJB coming to the U.S. to do seminars, so I really focus on watching how he moves his spine this time. There's also some more videos available at that point, so I have a few of them to watch. So from 1998 to 1999 I just devote everyday towards learning the spinal movement while doing some basic strikes and a couple forms from the Lion.
It was an extremely frustrating year but despite some painful moments, some set-backs and the side-stitches that I always got when doing it at speed, I actually had something to show when XPQ and HJB came back in 1999, Winterpark seminar. The first morning we were all practicing in a big group but after a little while XPQ said spread out and go practice on your own, and was then walking around watching everyone. When he got around to watching me he just started glaring at me. He yelled for Andrew to come over and translate, "Where did you learn that?!". I was scared because I didn't know if I was doing something so wrong or what, so I just mumbled "Uhhh from uh, from Jinbao?". XPQ yelled for Jinbao to come over and had him watch me nervously practice. They exchanged words. And XPQ asked "Did you learn that from the videos?!". Still scared that I'd done something wrong, "Uhh ye.....s". Then he was happy and smiling he said something like "Up until now I was skeptical about filming videos but now that I see that it can work. I'll make more videos."
At the final lecture of that seminar XPQ told me what's happening in the spinal movement: Translation ~ {The tailbone quickly tucks under with force; this jolts the dantian upward but the diaphragm above forces power back through Mingmen point (Lumbar vertebrae); then the chest concaving and back rounding brings it up where it meets Dachui point (top of the thoracic vertebrae) and is diverted out to the shoulders and to the hands.}
Intention (Yi) controls which hand gets more power but in the Lion this is usually like 60/40%.
The whole spine is like a Bow (Gong), as in Bow & Arrow, so if you imagine an archer standing behind you, hand in the middle of your spine, string attached to your tailbone and other end attached to the top vertebrae that protrudes out like a 'big hammer' (Dachui), and draws the string back, and then 'Fa' (Issue) 'Li' (Power) like an archer releasing the string, your whole spine springs forward.
The lumbar and thoracic parts of the spine do not want to harmonize or coordinate their movements. They're used to working like two individual bows. So it takes a lot of time and training to 'Make/ unite two bows into One' as this movement is completely 'Post-Heaven' and even more unnatural then finding the turning of the waist.
It's counter-intuitive because it requires a sort of sinking downward and inward movement when you want to be propelling your arm upward and outward.
Jinbao said there's a saying for how long this coordinated movement takes to learn "They say that the new student needs to be locked inside the school for two years." Why locked in? "Because you don't want to go outside the school and try to use it in a fight. The harmonized movement is like a bread being baked that if you take it out before it's time it will just collapse. Or it's like building a house of cards where you have to have a strong first level of cards before you can start stacking actual weight on the cards/ building more levels." This is a physical thing as the tissues and bones need some condition and it's the complex mental work and thinking (Yinian) as you have to be conscious of several things moving and happening at basically the same time. "Like the inner workings of a watch or clock. If one small part doesn't move in coordination with other parts then the watch fails/ breaks". So keeping it all intact within your own mind is also why you don't want to learn other types of fighting methods or other martial arts as it will only reinforce old or different 'movement-patterns' that you're trying to avoid so that you can learn this one. Once this way of moving is fully ingrained (another interpretation of Changing Post-Heaven and Arriving/ obtaining the Pre-Heaven (unnatural is now natural)) then you can have and use both methods. But, really you will have 3 methods of power as holding back or containing (Hunyuan) a 'Fa Li' is a type of power in itself. The Snake system uses this.
There's not much written about the spinal column methods. There's no real instruction as everyone's body and their control over their own body is individualized and different. So there is some analogies that may work. And we could come up with many different analogies or metaphors but they're still just using words to try and convey something that is a highly personalized movement that has to be done in order to be learned. I learned by just watching and observing and that's how it's generally taught.
Start slow, moving very slowly but not too much time moving slow because there's things that you can move slowly that shouldn't actually be there or involved. So learning with some speed, not fast, and not seeking power. Power will come with coordinated movement. I tried to practice with power too soon and always got a side-stitch/ side-ache where it feels like your lung cramps up. Sometimes in one lung, sometimes both lungs. It's called something like 'Pian Qi or Pian Xi' (deviated breath) in Mandarin. (The fix to get rid of or alleviate it is to just repeat the Closing movement but really stretching your arms up high before bringing them back down.)
So, here's a Xinyi/ Xingyiquan text I'd translated that touches on some of the history of it, and more importantly shows how this spinal column (torso-method/ shenfa) is older than Baguazhang and was once a part of many different martial arts and in some sense is what adds "Internal Power" to the Chinese Martial Arts:
波浪劲·翻浪劲”体用功法精义解
作者：马国兴
或问曰：心意拳和形意拳，都强调攻防较技之施招用手、施手用招的“波浪劲”和“翻浪劲”的用法。但是，什么是“波浪劲”、“翻浪劲”的法式呢？在攻防较技中施手用招、施招用手中“波浪劲”和“翻浪劲”确实有什么优势吗？这是为什么？“波浪劲”和“翻浪劲”功夫容易修炼成功吗？这些问题敬请您老不吝赐教！
答曰：是的！心意拳和形意拳都是遵从“意气君来骨肉臣”的内家拳法宗旨修炼、至用的拳种，这一点从拳谱中就可以明确的看得出来。
懂劲：
意拳是内功拳之一种，其气沉丹田，着意蓄发内劲，不论横，竖、斜、缠、松、悍、合、坚等劲，均得成为周身一体之整劲，富有弹力之抖绝打击，对方即会腾空跌出，达到学以致用之目的。否则，徒具优美之姿势和理解应用之方法，但敌人不为所动，而失去攻防艺术的价值，这就是不懂劲之缘故。
从这段懂劲的认识之论述中就可以清楚的看出来了，心意拳、形意拳都是极为重视内劲修炼、运用方法的。而“波浪劲、翻浪劲”只不过是内劲运用中的两种方法的名称而已。
“波浪劲、翻浪劲”名称的来源及运用方法
为什么名曰：“波浪劲、翻浪劲”呢？
因为古拳谱《易筋经·贯气诀·点气论》中有：
似梦地着惊，似悟道忽省，似皮肤无意然火星，似寒侵骨髓打战悚，想情景，疾快猛，原来是真气泓浓。震雷迅发，离火焰烘，洪水波涌。欲学不悟个中窍，丢却别寻哪得醒？
文中的“洪水波涌”之说法，就蕴含着“波浪劲、翻浪劲”修炼和至用的方法。犹如海水波浪向海边撞击的方向，称之为“波浪劲”；海水撞击海岸反向大海方向形成的回浪，称之为“翻浪劲”。
以身中劲势的用法为例，内劲由会阴起向后背运动的劲势名之曰“波浪劲”，乃从“打人全凭盖势取”的意思而得名；内劲由会阴起向前胸运动的劲势名之曰“翻浪劲”，乃从“探马势顺势揭掀”的意思而得名。
其实，就“波浪劲、翻浪劲”的得名因由的方法中，已经清楚的说明了“波浪劲、翻浪劲”的基本运用方法了。例如：崩拳、劈拳运用“波浪劲”，炮拳、钻拳运用“翻浪劲”，效果最佳。
“波浪劲、翻浪劲”的修炼方法
“波浪劲、翻浪劲”都是由内功养生之道的“子午周天”法中内气“腹背周天”运行法修炼演化出来的内劲功夫。下面具体介绍“子午周天”功法和“腹背周天”功法的具体操作方法：
子午周天法
【功法步骤】
1、站、坐、卧的姿势皆可以，必须全身放松，平心静气，息气凝神。
{Understanding the Underlying Methods and the Required Training Practices of Bolang Jin (Surging/Crashing Wave Power) & Fanlang Jin (Returning Wave Power)
{By: Ma Guoxing
{Some questions people might ask: Xin-Yi Quan and Xingyiquan both emphasize the skills of attack and defense using the arms and hands. In order to have skill in the arms it requires the use of "Bolang Jin" (BLJ) & "Fanlang Jin" (FLJ). But what is BLJ, FLJ and how do they work? Inside attacking and defending is the usage of the hands and arms. Inside the usage of the hands and arms is BLJ and FLJ. So what is the advantage and why are they used? Do BLJ and FLJ require Daoist Cultivation practices to be good?
{Answer: Yes!
{Xin-Yi Quan and Xingyiquan both follow the idea that "Intent (Yi) and 'Qi' are the lords while the bones and flesh are their servants." and the key to Internal Family Boxing is Daoist Cultivation practices and from the Cultivation practices one will gain better fighting skills. This is pointed out in the handed down 'Quan Pu' that once this is understood than real skill will arrive.
{To understand power: Intention (Yi) expressed outward in fighting, needs to be the same as it's happening inside the body. 'Qi' is sunk down to 'Dantian'. Movement/ Action begins as the Intent (Yi) Stores-up (蓄 xù) then Issues (發 fā) internal power (内劲 nèijìn). It doesn't matter if it's Horizontal, Vertical, Slanted, Winding, Relaxed, Ferocious, Harmonizing, or a Strong type of power as they're all equal when it comes to the whole-body, integrated as-one, power. It's Elastic, Trembling, and Short when it strikes. The other person will rise up and fall when it goes out. To obtain this one has to study diligently and apply it regularly. If not then the student will only have graceful movements, maybe a decent understanding of it, but is still not be able to affect the opponent, then they lose the true value of the martial art and have an incomplete understanding of the way power is used.} [In other words, in the beginning these practices need to be raw, violent, and powerful and won't look graceful or clean so that one can first find the raw mechanical skill in their own body, and then later, when it does look skillful and crisp, there is actual power that makes it a martial art.]
{The second part to understanding power: Xin-Yi Quan and Xingyiquan both put great emphasis on the Internal Cultivation of Power and that there is a clear method to achieve it. BLJ and FLJ are really nothing more than a way to bring Internal Power out/ put it to use and both cultivate and grow the internal power of the body but are only just a given name to describe the process.
{As they're really only a name given to discern the methods, [Which is another key point - as names of the methods are just themselves words.] Then why do we call them: "BLJ and FLJ"?
{Because in the Ancient Boxing textbook "The Yi Jin Jing; Secrets of Moving Qi; and Theory of Qi Points" there is: [...several esoteric things I'm just gonna skip over...,] and returning back to one's original state where 'True Energy' (Zhen Qi) pools and concentrates. When the 'Zhen Trigram's' Thunder quickly Issues (發 fā), then the 'Li Trigram's' Fire blazes and heats, causing the Water to Surge Upward (洪水波涌 Hongshui Bo Yong). So the ancients in their quest to understand everything about the human body asked, since this is a natural function, how can we intentionally awaken it?
{In the classic writings of China, "洪水波涌 Hongshui Bo Yong", is another way to describe what happens in "BLJ and FLJ" and the Daoist Cultivation practices that go along with the methods. Since it's similar to the way the ocean waves crash and collide into the beach and as it's coming out from the body of water we call this method "BLJ"; After the wave has crashed into the coastline, is retreating back out to the sea, and forming the shape that makes a 'Returning Wave' (Hui Lang) we call this direction of 'returning to the body of water' the method of "FLJ".
{When using the middle of the body to generate Power and force - where the power comes up from the perineum (Huiyin Point) and around the back of the spine, we call this "BLJ",which is also called "Striking the enemy from over the top and putting a lid over their power", which isn't really the actual application, just a name; When power comes up from the perineum (Huiyin Point) and around the front of the chest, we call this "FLJ" and is also called "The Knight moves with the opponent's force and flips up the lid, exposing their insides", which again isn't really an application but just a name.
{In actuality "BLJ and FLJ" are just names for the methods of using the middle of the body [the torso] and only have meaning if one already has a basic understanding of their physical functions and usage as the names themselves don't really contain the instructions.
{Some examples: Beng Quan and Pi Quan can use "BLJ". Pao Quan and Zuan Quan can use "FLJ" to obtain optimal delivery of power.
{"BLJ and FLJ" use Internal Cultivation practices and both "BLJ and FLJ" follow Internal Health Practices (neigong) and follow the Daoist concepts of "Ziwu Zhou Tian" The Method of Gathering Internal Energy in the Middle and "Fu Bei Zhou Tian" The Moving Method of Cultivating , Moving, and Arriving at the true skill of internal power (Nei Jin Gong Fu). Below I will introduce the cultivation methods of these Practices (Neigong) and describe the steps in order to practice and utilized the Daoist concepts of "Ziwu Zhou Tian" and "Fu Bei Zhou Tian".
{"Ziwu Zhou Tian" Method -
{【功法步骤】 Steps of Progression
{1, Standing, Sitting, or Lying down Postures can all be used, but it's important that the whole body is relaxed, the mind is quiet, the energy is calm. Attention is put on the breath and energy.}
[The rest that text just goes on to talk about Cultivation Practices that are specific to Xingyiquan where all our Neigong (Internal Work) is happening withing our Standing (Zhan Zhuang) and Circle Turning (also called Zou Zhuang = Moving Standing).
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