Peng – What's the deal with Adeel?

How many boxers do Tai-Chi body mechanics every practice.

Before I go onto how boxers generally utilize this skill, I’ll do an overview of peng/elasticity. I’ve made blog posts about Peng before, about the natural elasticity in the body that internal martial arts practitioners use as one of their primary skills and characteristics. It’s what they use to cause people to go flying withContinue reading “How many boxers do Tai-Chi body mechanics every practice.”

Applications of your own enemies peng/elasticity.

I am going to use the term PENG from chinese martial arts to describe weaponizing the natural elasticity in the body to strike, push or move. While I believe Taiji and many chinese styles particularly study this concept in martial arts more than others, they are far from the only ones to use it orContinue reading “Applications of your own enemies peng/elasticity.”

Physical training as a skill 3: Peng is plyometrics.

Yes it’s another article talking about the cross over between athleticism and skill. We are talking Peng and plyometrics. I miss doing plyometrics, if i wasn’t so broken I would do them. Now lets get into it. If someone has done Pa kua, Taiji or Hsing I, there are concepts of aliveness that cross overContinue reading “Physical training as a skill 3: Peng is plyometrics.”