Borrowing Energy in Push Hands and Self-Defense
Jieh Jin is translated from Chinese as "borrowing energy." It's one of the many concepts that are abstractly described as "energies" in the internal arts.
As with each of these "energies," borrowing energy doesn't mean you're sucking the energy out of your opponent literally -- it isn't mystical, it's physical just like all the other skills of Tai Chi, Hsing-I and Bagua.
Ā These three photos show an exercise you can do to practice and demonstrate borrowing energy.
In photo 1, my partner is rushing at me to push me off my ground. He will push hardĀ into my folded arms, using his momentum and weight. I'm establishing the ground path, maintaining peng, and setting up the body structure that I need for good internal mechanics.
In photo 2, he makes contact with his force, or energy. I ground it and give it no place to go but back at him. It actually feels as if it bounces back at him.
In photo 3, you can see him bouncing back slightly. All of the internal mechanics are coming into ...
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