Tai Chi Peng · An aid towards understanding

Okay, so what is Pung? What does it feel like? What does it mean? What does it do? Well, I've got a couple of props with me and I'm gonna test this out. One, it's a beanbag. The other, yeah, a space hopper. So sometimes it is good to try and figure out what Pung is by trying to figure out what it's not. Can you guess which one it might be already? Well, let's take this one, the beanbag, and I'm going to drop it to test what happens. Yeah, it's a pretty solid thump to the ground there. Space hopper, about the same height. Well, the space hopper is obviously the one with Pung because it has that bounce to it. If we go back to the beanbag again and I give it a good push, it's a little bit squishy, but it's really just a solid mass of beans in there. It doesn't do very much. This, on the other hand, if I push into it, you can see that it actually bounces back. In fact, the harder I push, the more it bounces, which is quite cool. And it's not solid. It doesn't have tension. What it has is internal pressure without tension. In fact, it's quite soft. And this is Pung. When I push at something, it's going to bounce back and then do its own thing. Pung. There you go. Still going.