Wu style applications

I recently found some interesting videos of an elderly fellow named Zhan Bo 戰波 from the Northern Wu lineage (Wu Quanyou 吳全佑 -> Wang Maozhai 王茂齋 -> Xui Pixun 修丕勛 -> Zhan Bo).

I liked these videos because he's demonstrating applications as his partner feeds him a strike rather than the usual applications out of push hands engagements. He also appears quite spritely for his age, incorporating lively footwork with his applications

This first video is only 3:10 and demonstrates a variety of entries from his partner's attack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNby6EWy_Cs

This second video is over an hour long, but demonstrates a variety of applications from the various movements of the traditional form. Many of them appear to rely on the opponent being a bit stiff at the moment of contact, but I think they're quite interesting nonetheless:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTU3NTc1MjMy.html

Wu Jianquan as vicious as Yang Banhou?

There's an article about Wang Maozhai 王茂齋 on wushuren.com (http://www.wushuren.com/html/wushufenlei/20100513/1607.html) that includes the following story about Wu Jianquan 吳鑒泉 that I had never heard before.

It says that when Wu Jianquan went to Shanghai, some over zealous folk put up some rhyming couplets on the walls that extolled Wu's prowess. This led to a non-stop stream of folks coming to compare skills with him. After 3 months, a daoist from Jiangnan 江南 named Huang Daozi 黃道子 came to visit. Wu told Huang that the couplet was just someone's idea of a joke, but Huang insisted on comparing skills. After a couple rounds, Huang threw a sneaky palm attack at Wu, who took advantage of it to throw his own palm knocking Huang back quite a distance. Huang hit the ground and coughed up blood. He died 3 or 4 hours later. After this incident, the challengers gradually tapered off, and people started to say he was as vicious as Yang Banhou 楊班候.

I'm curious if anyone has heard this story before?

Chen Xiaowang on fa jing

Excerpt from an essay by Chen Xiaowang:

The old fist manuals say "yi and qi are the monarchs, bone and muscles are the vassals". The relationship between internal qi and muscles is the same as the relationship between detonators and explosives. A detonator's explosive ability doesn't have a lot of explosive power (the majority of the explosive power comes from the explosives themselves), but explosives without a detonator to cause the explosion won't work. Not using the proper proportion also prevents the full force of the explosives from working.

If, while practicing Chen Taijiquan, there is diu ding ("losing" and "butting"), limbs mutually contradicting each other, strengths mutually canceling each other out, and internal qi not linked up, the power sent out will be withered broken power (just as when the proportion of detonators and explosives is not correct, the explosives won't be able to explode completely).