Notes for Toronto Workshop Sep 2025

Nothing in between two dots. Don't be distracted by the opponent. Keep going straight. One turns into two. One is gone. Exercise: Elbow up, split into hand and shoulder Back on a roller wall, and not push against the wall. Yin yang reversal. Opponent pushes me to the left, I move to the right instead. We are always pushing, we should be pulling. Don't change the system. Real intent is no intent. Every push must be turned into a pull. When you feel power, there is no power. When things don't change shape, it is a rotation. Lock the frame, contraction will create ab expansion. Push the kua over the other side of the opponent's waist. Not moving the contact point is the key to not fight. Find a way to destroy the opponent's system. Elbow goes to the hand through the forearm. (Through fist) Focus on finding and using the line. Not how it is for a particular example. First turn in Pound Mortar: Wait for the opponent to push onto me, cave in and stretch to the foot. Turn the elbow without pushing forward. Longer is stronger. Be longer. Hug the opponent and hold the top structure, dont open the elbows, the armpits. Drop the tailbone.

Kelvin Ho Yilu at UK Cambridge University Botanical Garden 20250608

Breakthrough: The opponent couldn't stand properly

Today, I realized one thing during my Sunday class. It was about on the touch of my right hand to the opponent's right hand, the opponent couldn't stand properly. There was peng. My feet was connected to his feet.

Notes for Toronto Workshop Jan 2025

Buddha’s Warrior Pound Mortar

Separate torso from arm

Keep the torso and hip inside a vertical tube

An object hits a wall horizontally, the wall can’t be moved, the wall goes down only, and the object is attached to the wall and goes down with it.

Hold the line between the shoulder and hand, bring the elbow to the kua, kua to the elbow

Always two dimensions, something going forward, something going downward

Every move must contain 3 moves.

Push Hands: Pretend to fight to gain space

Do my move to 99% and reserve 1% as trigger

Whatever the opponent does, you have to go in.

If the opponent wants space, you take that space.

If the opponent wants to be close, you create a little space, but it can’t be too far. Too far the opponent can kick or punch.

Result of matching is proportional. Match perfectly is full.

The system is balanced. No adding and no subtracting overall. We are only borrowing from one place to give it to another.