I won't pretend to know much about liuhebafa, but I believe that it's classified as an internal martial art. The internal arts are (typically) more passive and defensive, with a greater focus on awareness and a relatively more relaxed use of biomechanics instead of using brute strength.Originally Posted by Kyle
Autocon I'll teach you some kung fu...
Internal styles will teach you to absorb or redirect the force of an attack, which legally puts you in a better position than using say a bone-shattering block from an external style.
Compare:
+ External: Karate block "..he's clubbing down on my bone. Yeah I can feel that on my nerves." - it's simple and effective, but also very painful. You could potentially injure your attacker with this block who could in turn try to use this injury as "evidence" that you were assaulting him and not vice versa (it would be your word against his unless you have an independent third party witness).
+ Internal: Bajiquan application - in 0:39-1:10 of this video you'll notice that the defender is simply parrying the punch to the face followed by moving in and shoving the attacker away. There's no damaging block or even hitting the opponent back; simply a nice shove to get your attacker to fuck off. The rest of this video shows an actual counterattack - which is not what I would recommend for Autocon at this stage, but even then you can see that the punch works more on using biomechanical force rather than brute strength.
I'm sure Kyle will be able to explain all of this better at the Nexus Fair. It's better to just see this stuff for yourself rather than reading about it. Also have a talk to 1orion2many.
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