太極拳的落空技術－Hollow out opponent attack

太極拳的「落空」技術出自於《打手歌》：「引進落空合即出。」所以宗岳門的宗長葉老師不斷的主張「落空」的原則是「引進落空」不能「引出落空」。
Taichi (Taiji) has a specific skill of how to avert the opponent attack which was called "Luo Kong". "Luo" means fall down, and "Kong" means empty. This specific skill is from a poem Attack Song : Drive attack inside and fall into empty; Close (or Merge) for drive inside out finally.
Base on the main instruction as Attack Song, ZongYue Taichi inist that "Luo Kong" should drive the opponent's power into our body at first step (before "Luo Kong")not outside our body.

這裡引用葉老師以前文章中所提的落空方式：「引進落空」就是引到沾衣處落空，引到見肉處落空；「引出落空」就是引離沾衣處，引離見肉處。一般的太極拳都是不斷的強調掤勁接敵，當能掤就不會讓人攻到身上，但這邊其實有一個假設前提的，就是掤勁能接得下對手的勁，最少也要能改變對手的勁線方向，帶出我們的身體外；而宗岳門這則強調，「落空」需要一點都不帶任何的勁，不但是要完全的隨著對方的動而動，還要更進一步的做到讓對方在不脫離的狀態下聽不到我們隨他而動的勁，這時才能做到「落空」。
Here we use Master Ye's explanation. When we drive the opponent's power in, we have to drive that power (or attack) to our clothes or our body withour any energy try to affect the direction. Other Taichi school will teach people to use energy to keep opponent's power out of our bodies, that also make sense when we use leverage to do so. The only difference between those two method is when we don't try to affect our opponent's power, our opponent won't feel what we try to do. That means, "Luo Kong" will really work to let they feel like we just disappear when they touch us.
What I mean disappear is not real disappear, it's a feeling. OK, for example. When will people fall down? When people think they can walk on the ground but the ground just become air then they will fall down.
That's what we try to do in ZongYue Taichi.

當然，「落空」是有技術運行原則的，首先要先能「躭肩」，這是一個完成沈肩動作時肩的狀態，這種人體的狀態需要教練直接示範並現場調整學員的肩，而無法直接由文字說明，基本上每個人都可以做到，難是難在要每一動都能保持在「躭肩」的狀態，能「躭肩」後才能「落空」，而後就可使用各種的不同的技法去運用了。
Of course, "Luo Kong" has a SOP (standard operation procedure) to follow. The first one is to control our shoulder sink (or fall). It's hard to discribe by word. That should be teached by master. For my personal experience, almost everyone can learn that. The problem to use that is people will forget to do so when they don't practice that become their auto-reaction.