Glue the Body

During the winter of 2020-21 Wang Haijun developed a 13 form to accommodate the inside spaces that many people are confined to during the Covid-19 pandemic. He has been teaching this form and taiji fundamentals via the zoom platform. These classes are structured in the same format as a weekend seminar with warm-ups, reeling silk, and form training. Throughout he describes foundational principles of Chen Taiji. During one of these lessons Wang used the metaphor of “glue the body”. He went on to explain that the upper and lower body are closely connected as if they are glued together. The body is glued to the ground. This is similar to his “water, oil, honey” analogy. The taiji practitioner is seeking to have a sense of glue or of honey, there is a stickiness of all parts, a heaviness and a density.