[QUOTE=TAO YIN;1003646]No, no, no…wait a minute. I am not leaping. I am not going back to read through the entire thread. But, you said something to the effect that Jik Bo didn’t have a “Bil Jee,” or a finger strike one. I have never seen any Bak Mei schools that did Jik Bo where it didn’t look like a hard finger strike. I can think of only one school that does it differently.
Bak Mei’s art, its forms, its 8 methods, its Geng Jak Ging, it’s FCTT, and everything else, has Ying/ Yang theory relating to it. Jik Bo does too.
What is the Ying/ Yang theory in Jik Bo? And since it is Chi Gung (right?:rolleyes:), is it micro or macro cosmic orbit, or something else all together, and how does it relate to iron shirt? How is the Ying /Yang theory developed in Jik Bo?[/QUOTE]
Forgive me but you are leaping because I did not state that at all.
Hence why I asked politely that you re-read, because you indicate yourself that I said “something to that effect”.
It appears to me that you cannot be bothered to look at what I actually said, yet you consistently ‘call me out’ for not explaining? Explaining what? That which you didn’t read in the first place?
This is going nowhere fast because you are focusing on the finger and missing all the heavenly glory (pun very much intended).
Allow me to try to help you with at least one of your conundrums, in one fell slice.
Biu Gee/Biu Sau.
A thing ‘looking like’ another thing isn’t necessarily ONLY the thing you think it is. Let me explain further with a story, and not a work of fiction either.
A man (lets call him Mr Smith) who had learnt some rudimentary ‘kung fu’ made friends with a Chinese fellow. The Chinese fellow taught him some more ‘kung fu’, but Mr Smith was far more interested in what the older Chinese fellow over in the corner of the room was doing. The younger of the Chinese men told him that the man was practising White Brow.
When Mr Smith asked if he could learn this White Brow he was politely told no. So what Mr Smith did was to memorise some of the movements that the older man was practising and practise them on his own.
Some years later he was teaching a system that included apparently in its repetoire ‘White Eyebrow’.
Many years later after others had learnt from this man and in turn taught to others and so on. There were then, people all over who believed they ‘had’ White Eyebrow in their ‘kung fu’.
They did not.
One day a man who had already learnt several martial arts (lets call him Mr Brown) learnt this system of ‘kung fu’ to a high level. He decided one day having some suspicions about the origins of said system that he would trace the roots as far back as he could. Eventually he found his way back to Mr Smith and found out the truth. The White Eyebrow within the system was in fact nothing but one mans rough interpretation of some physical movements.