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Sun Zhi is the Mandarin spelling for the person we know as Sun Di ()
(1917-1999).
Dun Yao and Tuo Yao are Mandarin for Donyu and Toryu.
attacking and defending in a single thought and able to react to any change. This is the first step in the
basic kung fu of Southern Yiquan.
Once the practitioner has achieved a basic power, the folding and extension and retraction, forward
and backward, open and close and inhaling and exhaling, have a specialized training method. Using
the methods of dun yao and tuo yao, one can bring out the practitioners full potential and power.
Dun yao is also known as the Dragon Squat, it trains the arching and springing power of the sacral
verterbrae and hips and aims at training each joint to be relaxed and extended at the same time, and
therein lies the contradiction. First one sinks from the top of the head to the coccyx, then one extends
from the coccyx to the top of the head, in the middle one folds into the hips and springs out from the
spine. One relaxes and sinks from the head to the soles of the feet, and pushes out from the soles of
the feet to the top of the head. With each rise and fall, contraction and release, it becomes easy to
cultivate a startling, explosive energy.
Tuo Yao trains the opening and closing of the body and the inhaling and exhaling and develops the
shaking energy. Using the spine as the axis, turn the shoulders as the shaft. When training this is
separated into the single tuo, double tuo, fixed step tuo, moving step tuo, advancing and retreating
and left and right. Using this one can generate the contraction and extension, opening and closing,
spiraling and shaking, and the change from being empty to firm, as well as learning the special way of
using your body and the stepping. One can hope to attain the beautiful power of Jian Wu / health
dance, floating like a spirit, with an eerie elegance that the gods and spirits cannot fathom. All this can
be attained by Dun Yao and Tuo Yao. Hence the importance that Southern Yiquan places on the three
treasures.
When speaking about fajin and sinking the roots into the earth these are practices that Southern
Yiquan places great emphasis on. Even though they are two practices, they are intimately inter-related.
In order to realize how jin is expressed, one has to understand that it relies on the how firm the lower
basin is, whether it is water jin or fire energy, long jin or one-inch jin, bounce jin or explosive energy,
they all have the same repulsive energy. Whether it is one hundred pounds or five hundred pounds, if
the lower basin is not firm the power will not be strong, straight and clean. Without a straight jin,
penetrating power, with a shaking and misaligned body, how are we to issue clean force to shatter
stones and scare the heavens?
When sinking the roots into the earth, the Qi should be like the nine pearls threaded together, the body
should be cotton with a core of steel, every joint is song or relaxed and each joint is extended, and
each joint linked together. The Qi should flow through each joint, lifting the head, bringing the
shoulders forward, rounding the back, loosening the kua, and lifting the kneecaps, supported in the
thighs and sinking into the soles of the feet, the enemys jin should be listened to through the hands
and felt and reacted to by the body and controlled by the spirit. Thus the body responds to force, and
the body responds to the enemy. You have to realize that the dantian is the center, and the source of
Qi and power, those who know how to use it well spiral and explode, and extend in all directions, like
the extension of a heavenly spirit and the solidity of the muddy ox in the earth. This is sinking of the
roots into the earth standing on earth with a hundred catties.
The most representative master of Southern Yiquan in Hong Kong at present is Master Sun Zhi. Master
Sun is addicted to the martial arts, and has spent his life studying Yiquan. His abilities are
extraordinary, with many accomplishments. He practices the hardest, and his power is simple and
strong, his fire power has an explosiveness renowned through the martial world. He has fought many
duels, he attacks and enters without covering himself, and is undefeated. In his late years, his power is
deep, and his arts are his passion and hobby. [He has since passed away]