Zhuangzhang can be called 'ramming palm', or 'shoving palm' in English. It has the feeling of crashing a car into a wall (except that you are somehow both the wall and the car, since it is not you that gets smashed up). It was the special technique of Ma Gui.
The only way to have full power in zhuang is to be upright. Put power into the weakest parts of the body – the feet, lower back and neck. Do not put power into the arms. The strength of the zhuangzhang is applied through the bones, so the wrist is quite bent to apply directly to the end of the arm.
(in Beijing dialect crashing into something is 'chuang'.
Lion way of doing zhuangzhang
Power release drills
Partner training drills
Sparring drills
