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Oisin Bourke wrote:
if so, does the usage of the "hara" differ according to the method ?
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There's a person named Li Tai Liang who does workshops on Dai-family Xinyi in the U.S. He's a very good fighter and at one time trained the Beijing San-da team, IIRC. The style is sort of a small-frame style, but the important point to look at is that Xinyi (properly "Xinyi Liu He") is a system that uses the ki/kokyu skills in a manner called "six harmonies" because of the way the body is moved as a winding unit. Aikido has the same core skills, but tends for the most part to be more linear, so the usage of the dantien/hara is going to be different in the completeness of the relationships with the body. I.e., although all the styles are going to have essential elements like ki-relationships and kokyu/jin usage, the actual methods of tying these things together is going to differ across the spectrum of CMA's and JMA's.
My 2 cents.
Mike