The partner of beng bu's kick
Getting back to the technique I didn't like so much in 7* beng bu.
In the 2nd road the partner uses his right leg to kick his opponents left kidney, then does a left jump kick to the opponents mid-section or face.
It is said that a good kick is like hitting someone with a baseball bat. So it would seem that the kicks are okay.
Problem is that in Paida of my teachers school he use a bat a lot bigger and heavier than a baseball bat to deliver full power strikes to the students body.
My grand teacher laughed at my puny gut punches as I punched him in the gut full power. This is when he was 70.
A Shaolin monk let me do flying sidekicks on his chest while he stood there.
Most people can't take a good body kick, but following the iron body pai da those techniques of kicking the body lose value as the opponent is better able to withstand the blows.
Furthermore, it is hard to kick the kidney(not impossible).
On the other hand the jump kick in the 3rd road of beng bu done by the beng bu side of the form is doing a groin kick that is very difficult to block.
In fact, it seems to me that all the rest of the techniques of the form have applications in the 2 man set that iron body can't be of much help in.
So in the TJPM format the same spot where 7* does a jump kick the TJPM version just does a punch to which the partner does an elbow break.
So, here is a fictional story to show a hypothesis.
Wang Lang taught this movement and said," It doesn't matter if the opponent punches or kicks, you just move like this..."
So in some schools the taught one of Wang Lang's ideas and in another school another idea.
So learning from other schools seems to be a good thing.
Since there are some interesting threads on being a sifu, how should a sifu react when their student wants to meet and learn from other masters?
Would it be different if he was teaching cooking?