Post by Arashi on Nov 12, 2006 18:11:04 GMT -5
Arashi had found a new style that he adored, and not just because of it being a foreign style; it was called Bajíquán, and a user of such a style needed great strength and speed, which were his two favorite subjects. So he studied the martial art for a few days, until he had managed to become basically proficient. It was characterized by fast moves, but they were first and foremost violently brutal. All techniques are executed with a very distinctive form of short power, developed through rigorous training, and it was this training that Arashi was working most prominently on today, in an older fashioned way. First, he went into the rockgarden in the clan house, where he knew there to be a boulder much larger than himself stuck in the ground. He approached this now with the ideal to use it to train the muscles in his arms to be able to dish out those short, vicious blows. Whatever gives him an advantage, yes?
So he started pounding away at the rock, but not just in any way. The major features of this somewhat rare school of Chinese Martial Arts include elbow strikes, hip checks, and strikes with the shoulder. Strategically, Baji focuses on in-fighting, entering from a longer range with Baji's distinctive Charging Step and issuing power up close. So he rushed the stone with an aggressive forward step and would deal repetitive heavy blows to the rock. Baji contains 6 series of type of Jìn, 8 kinds of ways to hit, and several different principles to use the power. Its "horse stance" is higher than the typical Longfist "horse stance". Like others, there are also "arrowbow stance", "one-leg stance", "Xū stance", "Pū stance", etc. There are 8 different poses of hands, plus different types of breath and "Zhèn Jiǎo". He didn't stop this training until his muscles would no longer apply force to the rock, what he called the "Point of Failure", which was what he decided would be his goal in the rest of his training days; train until you can't move.
So he started pounding away at the rock, but not just in any way. The major features of this somewhat rare school of Chinese Martial Arts include elbow strikes, hip checks, and strikes with the shoulder. Strategically, Baji focuses on in-fighting, entering from a longer range with Baji's distinctive Charging Step and issuing power up close. So he rushed the stone with an aggressive forward step and would deal repetitive heavy blows to the rock. Baji contains 6 series of type of Jìn, 8 kinds of ways to hit, and several different principles to use the power. Its "horse stance" is higher than the typical Longfist "horse stance". Like others, there are also "arrowbow stance", "one-leg stance", "Xū stance", "Pū stance", etc. There are 8 different poses of hands, plus different types of breath and "Zhèn Jiǎo". He didn't stop this training until his muscles would no longer apply force to the rock, what he called the "Point of Failure", which was what he decided would be his goal in the rest of his training days; train until you can't move.
