PM Friday Night Practice

 Fetch Water

• Lock the front knee
• Lock the rear shoulder
• Push the front kua into the line between the front knee and rear shoulder
• Make sure that train the full range of motion
• At the tail end, nudge a little attempting to go beyond the current maximum

Knee-kua Exercise

• Use the knee to control the up and down of the torso
• Use the kua to control the left and right turn of the torso.
• Draw a sqaure, and try to reach the four corners of the square
• Keep the central axis not moving, and draw an oval

"One knee up, one knee down" exercise

• Make sure the two knees are going in othrogonal directions beside one knee going up, and one knee going down
• The knee actions are the initiaters. Everything just adapts/adjusts to the knee actions.
• The torso drops into the hole that opens up gradually as the knees move.
• Don't try to turn the torso ourselves, especially we have the tendency to use the shoulders to cause the torso turn.
• Lock the ankles and don't allow them to bend, keep them perpendicular to the gound. This added restriction will require more effort in balancing. At the beginning, we may be falling backwards.

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2020年11月27日星期六上午8:00 (中国时间），何家伟教练带领我们来学习这个视频。

Notes:

守中就是守着中线或是一点不变，不让别人动它。在这前题下，其他的地方都可以随意的动。陈老师在视频初段跟几位同学示范，前肩跨线不动，手随意一挥就把同学放出去。

3:27 陈老师反过来做把不动点放在手上牢牢的抓个同学的手腕，但其他地方是松的。这就是阴阳。如果这他的手跟身体连在一起，一起紧或是一起松，就不行了。

6:00 陈老师示范上步。他的右手跟右肘分出阴阳，两股力使这前臂合着对方定住，然后身体就能轻松上步，靠近对方。他上步时，前臂完全不动。

7:00 上身不动、抓着对方，下身一踢。这个是二路里面的动作。

10:13 只要能练到身体分出阴阳，对方的力多大、多快对我们也没用，像我们大力或是轻轻的开门，门轴都是一样的，根本没关系。

10:53 这个门轴只要没让人碰到它就可以，但它的克星就是螺旋缠丝，这动作就是要找到这门轴。

换点就是不让对方找到自身的不动点，螺旋缠丝就让我们找到对方的不动点。

Master Chen Zhonghua's Online Lesson on Nov. 26, 2020

What is the seam (缝 feng)?

• The place between two actions where it needs to change direction (such as, go back).
• Grandmaster Hong said that we needed to get to 天衣无缝 tian yi wu feng. Heavenly clothes have no seam.
• However, we can't pretend that there is no seam in the first place, and hide it.

Step Back to Double Shake Feet

• The front hand must go out when we twist the body.

Jade Girl

• After Double Shake Feet, there is An (Press). The feet moving forward and the right hand are in different tempo. The right hand continuously goes forward.
• In push hands, we must have the top going forward, and change the movement in the feet.

Yilu

• Use yilu to train the technical things

Eilu

• It's application, don't think.  If it does not work. train more yilu.

We move the elbow, and not the forearm. The common mistake is that we think that we move the joint, but we are also moving the limb.

When we need to stretch towards to two end points in a straight line, don't rotate.

Notes for 给吴绍志讲守中 video

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2020年11月27日星期五上午8:00 (中国时间），何家伟教练带领我们来学习《给吴绍志讲守中》这个视频。

Notes:

陈老师常常说手不能动。在实际推手中，无论对方如何推我们，我们的手还是要指着对方中心。一般人的反应是，手很容易便跑到别处。我们要用身体调节，对上对方的力，但一定不要让手离开对方的中心。要能做到这一点，身体其实要能跟手拉开，这才能不让身体的动作影响手的位置。

Master Chen Zhonghua's Online Lesson on Nov. 25, 2020

No lifting - Don't carry weight in your hand when moving. 

When the hand is moving, it is inefficient.

Turn every push into a pull

• If we push with the hand, that is a push.
• If we use the elbow to pull the hand, that is a pull.
• The demarcation is how we consider if the elbow is behind the hand (push) or in front of the hand (pull).

Front Trick/Rear Trick

• Go 45 degrees on Front Trick, and then the other 45 degrees for Rear Trick.
• Move in a straight line to reach the destination, and then rotate the body to hit.
• You can also rotate first, and perform a straight hit.
• However, don't do both at the same time.

The turn after shake the poles 3 times

• Make sure that the hand does not move/does not change direction while we rotate.
• The step-up causes the hand to change direction.
• The first rotation is a coil up to store the potential energy, the second rotation is a release of the potential energy to convert it into kinetic energy for the movement of the foot.  It is just like a sling shot or the worm action We have to pull it first before we release it. This breakdown/sequencing of movements is key in Practical Method. We break down what looks normally like a single movement into two or more parts.

When something goes to extreme, it reverses itself.

• Energy only goes forward, it goes to the extreme, and the body reverses itself. There are two beats to the body.  The body goes forward originally, and at the inflection point, the body goes backward.  This backward is not going back on the same path though.
• Think of going to the park from home in one route and then back using a different route to go home. If going to the park is considered forwad, then going home is considered backward, but it is not on the same path.  The drive go to the park and back can be aways going forward.

Taiji is 3

Suppose you have only a 4 liter container and a 9 liter container. The containers have no measurement lines on either of them. How could you measure exactly 6 liters of water using only those containers assuming you can have as much extra water as you need?

After I solved the above puzzle, I had a realization on the statement "taiji is 3".

Taiji is separation of yin and yang. Yin and Yang are entities that are clearly separated from each other. In order to have yin and yang, there is something that separates/differentiates/demarks yin and yang, so it is neither yin or yang, and it is called Ling (灵）。 This is what makes taiji being 3, and not 2. 

In the puzzle above, there are clearly 2 containers of size 9 liters and 4 liters respectively. The question is asking us to get 6 liters of water using only those 2 containers. 6 is neither the size of either container, nor the delta size between them. However, this task is made possible because there is a difference in the container sizes. If the two containers are of the same size, we can only get the amount that is single or double the container size.

9, 4 and the delta (5) make taiji. With the above setup, 0, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13 can be realized. Master Chen Zhonghua has said that we need 3 to make other things possible as illustrated in this example.

For the full solution to the puzzle, please see https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/measuring-6l-water-4l-9l-buckets/.

Master Chen Zhonghua's Online Lesson on Nov. 24, 2020

Rhythm/Sequence of movements

We need modify our bahaviour to cause a real change.

In-with-elbow must cause out-with-hand.  Withdraw is to issue.

Step Up to Punch

• Master Chen tore phonebooks practicing this move.
• We must know the key and transitional part of any given move in the form. We are often unclear, and it is shown through our actions.

Buddha's Warrior

• Tense up the muscles near the spine when raising the hands.

Structural Power

• PM is based on structural power, and not on speed or momentum.

Front Trick/Rear Trick

• Can't turn while we hit
• Rotate is designed to reduce power.
• Cover more space to be stronger

Move forward vs rotate

• If we are suppsoed to move forward, then don't rotate.
• If we are supposed to rotate, then don't move forward or displace the body.
• Without going forward means that you need to twist yourself.

Kao

• Kao is forward without deviation.

Eyes

• Eyes on the target
• Don't look at our own action

Desynchronized Postive Circle

• Don't do everything together
• He composed the individual actions in different combinations.

Daoist Theory

• There is nothing outside of human ability, but we put them together differently, and that's what makes us unique.  If we analyze it, the individual components are the same.
• Music is combining the notes differently in a unique way.
• Think of Lego building blocks. There used to be just a small number of blocks of different sizes. What can be made out of them is only limited by our imagination.  We are at the beginning building useful blocks in our taiji, only when we have these basic units, we can start to see what we can do with them.

PM Friday Night Practice

We covered the following tonight:

1. Negative circle
1. Do it in a way that the arm triangle does not change shape externally.
2. Focus on the opening of the shoulder and the elbow
3. Think of the forearm and the upperarm rotating longitudinally and independently.
4. When doing elbow in, make sure that the shoulder the down. This is like instead of getting the elbow to go over on its own, make the shoulder go down half, so that the elbow can go over using half the effort.
2. One knee up and one knee down
1. It is like opening a trap door and letting for torso fall through vertically.
2. The action is at the knees. They go away from each other, and one goes up and one goes down.  However, the knee that goes down does not really go down. That intent causes the kuas to adjust in a certain way that opens up the bottom and lets the torso fall through, at the same time, it causes the torso to rotate.
3. When we actually do it, don't try to rotate. Rotation is just the result. Because we know that it should rotate, we try to rotate it. We can't force the rotation, it just happens when we do something else correctly.
4. The ratio of the movement: 5 at kua, 3 at shoulder, 2 at elbow, 1 at hand, 0 at the middle finger tip.  The numbers are just for illustration purpose to show the inside needs to be bigger while the outside needs be none, and not for the exact ratio.
3. Not-moving knee squat
1. We did a test to squat down without letting the knee to go forward. We must keep the ankle erect at 90 degrees. This forces the kua to move a lot more to compensate for the weight shift. This is the same idea as to why we don't move the hand. We want to increase the range of motion for elbow, shoulder, and kua.

Notes for 再谈膝盖-新加坡2013 video

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2020年11月21日星期六上午8:00 (中国时间），何家伟教练带领我们来学习《再谈膝盖-新加坡2013》这个视频。

为什么我们实用拳法前行的时候要产出脚跟的？

Notes:

陈老师说我们的膝盖跟动物的前脚膝盖是刚相反的。因为动物是爬着走路，它的膝盖跟人类的肘的方向是一样的（向后）。如动物的前膝盖受阻，它的脚还可以往前走，然后把膝盖拉上去。相反人类站着走路，膝盖是向前的。我们要做铲出的动作才能回归像动物前脚的用力方法。

Notes for 捋挒练习 video

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2020年11月20日星期五上午8:00 (中国时间），何家伟教练带领我们来学习《捋挒练习》这个视频。

这视频讲解的一个收肘上步的练习，如能学会然后应用在推手上就能提高我们推手的层次。

Notes:

在这个收肘上步练习中，收肘与上步这两个动作往中间的不动点，像活页一样。用劲练。看上是同时做，但其实不是。这是一个采劲。

用这个动作作为双人练习的时候，定住头，肚子往前顶，让对方跟自己碰在他预测不到的地方就凑巧了。这把对方的节凑打乱。上面跟下面的动作不同步。这是时间差。

用桌球作例子，球是不动的，桌球杆是动的。这样才能桌球捅出去，但它们的关系是建基与它们是在同一条线上的走动。

The art of asking a question

Master Chen Zhonghua always talks about the method of learning.The interaction of us asking and him answering is part of it.  You have probably heard him say before, "Don't ask that question", but yet at a different time, he would ask students to ask questions. What kind of questions are indeed proper to ask?  The questions that are on topic, something that does not interrupt or distract the learning of the very subject at the time.  The format of an appropriate question itself should be about HOW, e.g. Could you please show me that move again?

This type of questions allows Master Chen to provide the correct information.

Examples of bad questions:

1. Is it A or is it B?  Often the answer does not lie within A nor B.
2. When Master Chen talks about X, someone asks what about Y.  He calls this the Kua Syndrome. Very often people ask about the kua whenever they have an opportunity to ask a question.  Kua is indeed very important, however if all you think about is kua, then you are missing the opportunity to learn other important topics as well.

We are often confused among a question, an assertion, and a discussion.

Master Chen uses our questions to gauge how much we have received the information he has given.  We must not be afraid of asking the wrong question. Learning how to ask a question takes practice. I definitely have my fair share of asking the wrong questions, and not staying on topic. Master Chen would response with a slap on the top of his head, and give a bit of a sigh..., but we should keep at seeking to understand his words and intentions better.

Notes for 什么是上身-2014 video

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2020年11月14日星期六上午8:00 (中国时间），何家伟教练带领我们来学习《什么是上身-2014》这个视频。

要把功夫练上身，陈老师在这视频谈及了怎样才算上身，与及训练方法。

Notes:

我们如要把功夫练上身，我们就要把应知跟真正的动作对上，然后不断练，练到在不知不觉中也能做出来。用学语言来表达就是达到母语的流利程度。每一句说话说出来都不可能错的，因为这是最原始学得的。用洪老师的话来说就是【动必成式】。

我们练拳要练到原始状态，也叫【自然】。后来，又叫【放松】。洪老师的一句精景的话说【你的放松不是这个放松】。我们不明白放松，就自己想怎样去放松。我们看不明白的动作，就用自己的方法去做这个动作。这个不行的。方法其实有两个：1） 听老师的话，不要自己想。2） 练到自己累透，手也提不起来，到那时如你还能做动作，用的方法就是原来、真正最省力的方法。

Notes for 合住劲2-2019.05.27 video

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2020年11月13日星期五上午8:00 (中国时间），何家伟教练带领我们来学习《合住劲2-2019.05.27》这个视频。

这个视频里陈老师示范如何把对方的力放到对方身上去。

Notes:

陈老师在视频的开始跟同学示范了怎样把对方的来力回到对方身上去。在示范中，对方推老师的双肘，对方的胳膊是力的来路，老师的指头指着对方的中线，这是力的回路。这让力在闭路里走了一圈。老师不需要加自己的力，只是引导对方的力回到他身上就行。重点是老师身上有一点不动，对方就像碰到一堵墙一样，力被老师反弹回去。这是收肘、出手同时进行，一路里面初收的动作。

5:02 对方握着老师的双腕，力从那里进来到老师的后脚，老师的头拉开向着对方，反弹的力顺着后脚到头顶的线回去，最后老师出双手把头顶延长。当对上了的时候，对方任何阻力都没有。

9:09 这里的示范看上了更神奇，因为老师没有抓着对方，对方也没有抓着老师，老师只是轻轻身体擦着对方的皮肤。碰上的地方不动，老师身体其他部位协调跟对方合住控制着对方。但是原理是跟上面的一样的。

10:39 这里老师示范怎样打人，对方如想阻挡老师进去，老师把他引进来，自己就能到分界的另外一边。这也是一个对拉（分阴阳的例子）的动作。

13:30 对方碰老师的地方没动过，老师自己动了别处。对方抓不住老师。

Master Chen Zhonghua's Online Lesson on Nov. 12, 2020

Vertical Peng

• Going down without doing down.
• It's like a telescoping stick becoming smaller.
• There is no bending at the waist.
• The peng must be maintained.

Hands always go out (Nothing is outside of being big).

Elbows always go in (Nothing is inside of being small).

炼 - smelting

• Taiji body is like a dough.  It's not a dough if you just add water to flour. We must go through the training like kneading the dough. We knead the dough, leave it to rest, and knead the dough again. Repeat it again and again.  This process is called 炼 - smelting.

Jamming

• We must create a jam in push hands. In real fight, it is very difficult to create such a jam. It takes a very high level of skill to be able to do it in a real fight.

靠 - Kao

• A piece of board hitting the target in one piece. Whole body moment.
• e.g. How the body goes forward and downward in Brush Knee In Oblique Stance.

Master Chen Zhonghua's Online Lesson on Nov. 10-11, 2020

We continue on the exercise with one knee up and one knee down from last week.

The torso is like a cylinder that goes down in a free-fall fashion. We can hold up the cylinder, and yet we can't push down the cylinder. The cylinder is pulled down by gravity, something is outside of our body.

It is like the cylinder dropping through an iris shutter valve as the opening is big enough to allow the cylinder to go through. The knee going up and down opens up this hole.

Ultimately, when the knee goes down, it does not really go down. There is a restriction that is place in front of the knee.

As the cylinder goes down, there is also a rotation on the cylinder.

For now, we need to make sure that the knee that is supposed to go down does not go towards the other knee. It goes in the direction that is perpendicular to the line originally formed between the two knees.

On Nov. 11, 2020, Master Chen added the following in this topic:

Regarding the knee going down, this projects one line that is perpendicular to the line originally formed between the two knees. These two lines form a T in terms of how they interact with each other. Along with one end going down, and the other going up, this actually creates a spiral.

Master Chen also showed the demonstration using two credit cards standing on their edges, and forming a T with a little gap at the bottom of the interaction. Without such gap, the two cards won't be able to stand up.If there is no gap, you can say the entire side is touching, but then it is the same as the entire side is not touching. The two cards won't be able to stand up. With that gap, there is one point that the two cards are definitely touching at, and then many points that the two cards are not touching. That is separation of yin and yang. Another way of looking at is that the gap does not belong to either card, but the two cards are related because they are touching at one point.

Examples:

1. Two feet form a line, and coccyx stretches perpendicular to that line.
2. In Cloud Hands, we have one positive circle on one plane, and the other positive circle going on another plane that is perpendicular to the first one. Further more, we can have one circle (think of it more like a square) having power on the top and bottom sides, while the other circle having power on the left and right sides. The gap is in the space in the armpit. These actions and intentions are what make our movements 3D.

Locking the two ends and moving the middle with sword

The video showed 3 moves of the Practical Method Straight Sword form, namely, Left cut wrist, Right cut wrist and Sweep down one thousand soldiers.

To execute either of the cut wrist moves, we must lock the tip of the sword in the same place in space and move the handle of the sword. Considering the sword being an extension of the hand, the tip of the sword is one fixed end, the feet are the other fixed end. The middle in this case is the waist, and we use the waist through the hand to move the sword handle. This clearly illustrates the concept of locking the two ends and moving the middle.  By moving the middle, we send the energy to the tip of the sword, which represents a single lock that is only allowed to travel in a designated path. It is easier to illustrate this concept with a sword because a sword is a dead object. However, with empty hand, it is much harder as the hand is a live object and can easily move itself. We must treat the hand as a dead object as well to make it a weapon, in particular, to forge a 7-inch knife (7 inches down the side of the palm from the tip of the pinky).

Notes for 动静连接-2019.06.02 video

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2020年11月7日星期六上午8:00 (中国时间），何家伟教练带领我们来学习《动静连接-2019.06.02》这个视频。

这视频三种不动的方式。你能看出来吗？

Notes:

我们练拳就是要练动作，但每个动作中，都要有不动的地方。可以是多个动，一个不动，或是一个动，多个不动。前题是动与不动要分开。

不动有三种：详情请看这文章 https://www.shiyongquanfa.cn/archives/92496。

1）真不动

2）结构不动

3）不下线

0:24 陈老师示范脚不动，其他地方都动。这是文章中的第一种不动。

1:18 陈老师食指头不动，全身动到指头那一点。重点是那个指头不动，一动就不行。

2:35 这次也是食指头不动，但动的地方是在轨道上的跟指头对拉的。

5:06 在陈老师肚子上的一点，保持在对方出拳的轨道上，这是文章中的第三种不动。

6:31 陈老师说的不破像就是文章中的第二种不动。

7:22 同学的拳头一动，那根棍就散了，我们拳头当方向改变，另外的地方要协调一下为着保持那根棍。

Notes for 拳头2019 video

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2020年11月6日星期五上午8:00 (中国时间），何家伟教练带领我们来学习《拳头2019》这个视频。

这视频解释实用拳法的握拳方法。

Notes:

实用拳法的握拳方法跟别的拳种不同。食指第二节为最前的一点，其它地方都是像螺旋一样往后。顺带讲一讲陈老师自己的拳头，里面没有空隙，像一块石头一样。所以可以用作[器]。

套路中，手形有瓦楞掌，这拳与勾手，我们要清楚知道要求。

Master Chen Zhonghua's Online Lesson on Nov. 5, 2020

Six Sealing Four Closing

• The stretch of the elbow against the locked hand comes to a stop.
• Switch to use the central vertical axis to rotate. When it is done, switch to the rear shoulder-kua axis to continue the rotation in the same direcction.
• Switch to the front shoulder-kua axis, power with the rear kua to cause the hand to go out.

Block Touch Coat

• Spring-like Action (Inch worm Action): A must move to B (the middle), and stop at B first, and release C.
• This relates to the way to go from shovelling the right foot out to right half horse stance.
• The power needs to go from the left knee to the dantian, and stops at the dantian, and then releases it to the right knee.
• This is the same in Cloud Hands. We must split the overall action into two halves.
• This is crucial in generating power.  This is like loading a spring on one end, and releasing on the other.

Positive Circle

• Out-with-hand: The elbow goes into the hand, like a ball going into the hand.
• In-with-elbow: The elbow needs to stretch from the hand.
• The two together work like a telescoping action.

Lean with Back

• Folding one of the kuas is a common problem at the final stretch of this posture, similar to Embrace Head to Push Mountain.
• I think that I saw the difference between opening and folding the kua this time. They actually look quite similar on the outside but the internals are different. It is like the thigh and the hip twist in opposite directions.

Double Shake Feet

• After the jump, don't move the hand. tie it to the kua, and the hand lands with the right foot.

Single Whip

• Hook hand usage: Your opponent is doing a Left Six Sealing Four Closing to you. at your right elbow. You lock the elbow, and stretch the hand (hook) into the dantian of the opponent.

Way of holding in Practical Method

• It is like a hand cuff, which catches loosely, but if the opponent wants to move, he can't really get out.

 

Master Chen Zhonghua's Online Lesson on Nov. 4, 2020

Turning around without turning around.  This is referring to moving the elbow, while the hand and shoulder are not moving.

Moving the hand will tie a knot in the body.  Thinking of how to reel in with the spool to bring in the hose, and how to get the hose out by holding the end and pulling it out.

All important moves are difficult.

Lean with back

• Left elbow aligns with the Right elbow

Left Turn Pound Mortar

• The right kua must be tied to the right elbow during the left turn.
• Right foot goes forward, and then steps to the right.

Single Whip

• The left hand rests on the left chest. There is a dot just below the wrist on the forearm that touches the chest. The wrist is straight, and the hand is a tile hand (stretching).

Brush the Knee in Oblique Stance

• 3rd Count: The back hand (right hand) does a positive circle - In with elbow, turn with waist, out with hand (go over the shoulder). 

Moving the inside, e.g. Lock the hands, move the shoulders.

All movements come fron inside: elbow, shoulder, kua.

Master Chen Zhonghua's Online Lesson on Nov. 3, 2020

Chinese Class

Buddha's Warriot Attendant Pound Mortar

• How to lift the right leg? It has to stretch out and then come back.
• Many people would make the buttock protrude when lifting the leg.

Block Touching Coat

• The horizontal move (5th count) in Block Touching Coat is not actually a horizontal move.
• Lock right kua, move left kua, and then lock left kua, move right kua

English Class

We first continue to do the same simple elbow going up to the hand-shoulder line exercise as on Nov. 2, 2020.

We add another exercise for going down using only the knees.

• One knee goes up, and one knee goes down.
• The torso is like a cylinder that just sites on top without movement.  We are trying to take away the support underneath the cylinder, and let the cylinder fall straight down into the hole.
• The power needs to be at the knees (and not at the kua) for this exercise.
• If we restrict the front of the knee and the back of the ankle, there is a tube in the calf, and the knee going down will hit the wall, and slide down the tube that way.
• We also put a restriction behind the kua and in front of the knee, this allows the torso to go straight down.
• We use tension to maintain the structure.
• There are 3 vertical lines: from the front knee straight up, between the front shoulder and front kua, between the nose and the dantian. When the torso goes down, it is the like an elevator, and these 3 lines will not change.

In the future, we will come the two exercises. They will allow independent movements horizontally and vertically, controlled by different body parts that don't merge in their actions. Only with that, the hand would appear to move, and draw a square or circle, but the area covered the hand is limited by the extent of the elbow and knee movement.

Master Chen also talked about the captive bolt gun used to shock a cow.  (Ok, this is not a light saber).

Here is a video on how it works:

We need to train that kind of power illustrated by the captive bolt gun.

Master Chen also described how he trained this power before. He cut out the leg of his jeans, tie one end, and put sand into it to about 1/2 or 1/3 full, tie the other end. He swung it back and forth.

Master Chen Zhonghua's Online Lesson on Nov.. 2, 2020

We are doing a simple movement from Six Sealing Four Closing.

• Push the elbow up towards the shoulder and hand line.
• The elbow is the one that drives out the hand.
• Don't move the hand itself.
• When the elbow goes up to the line, the shoulder goes backward into the wall, which bounces the energy back towards the hand.
• Leader of the movement: http://practicalmethod.com/2020/10/leader-of-the-movement/
• If the elbow is higher than that line, the elbow, in that case, needs to go down. In Fig. 1, A is the shoulder, B is the elbow, C is the hand.

When Master Chen asks if you understand, he is asking if you is clear about the instructions and can follow the instructions.

We have a record hight of 47 people in the class today.

Intention is that what you know.

True intention is no intention.

Master Chen still needs to pay full attention to his movements in order to do it right.  The highest level is not needing to think about it.

For my form, I need to train using the arms at all, and focus on only using the kuas to do the entire form.