<span class="chinese-post-title">歌訣九、存力法</span> Ninth Song. Power Storing Method from <span class="chinese-post-title">八卦掌實戰四十八法歌訣</span> The Forty-Eight Songs of Application of Baguazhang

歌訣九、存力法

只會使力不會存，
力過猶如箭離弦。
不但無功且有害，
輕輸重折而傷身。

"If one is only able to release power without knowing how to store it,
Power will be gone just like an arrow that leaves the bow.
Not only nothing will be achieved, it will also be harmful,
It quickly leads to heavy defeat as well as injuring to the body."

Based on the translations by 楊俊敏 Yang Jwing Ming and 梁守渝 Liang Shou You in 峨嵋八卦掌 "Baguazhang - Theory and Applications" and by Frank Allen and Tina Chunna Zhang in "The Whirling Circles of Ba Gua Zhang"