Water is water, but going through a procedure, it may become dirty or clean.
Master Hong Junsheng never said his taiji was better. The differentiation was how to teach it.
Exercise: In with elbow no hand, out with hand no elbow. Use the other hand/finger to initiate the move.
Switch is the change of direction.
Front is where your eyes can see.
Where you touch the opponent, it becomes the end of the circle where switching has to happen.
3 moves happen at the same time
Elbow-in hits a wall/target behind my back, hit through it parallel to the ground. At the same time, add lowering of the body.
We don’t move, we add something to cause movement.
Shoulder and kua are the framing the car, elbow and knee are the wheels. Don’t move the shoulder and kua, and only move the waist.
Whip around the body jump, big step on left foot, weight on left foot, push off from right foot, small in the air, and land right foot first, stretch left foot, big on the landing. Try to go across the floor as far as possible.
Lock the top in the air after the push off the floor with rear foot.
Stretch back of the rear knee into the line, don’t let the shoulder pop, stretch the hands.
Use the elbow, in with elbow, use the elbow to push the hands, after the pulling the elbow in, use the elbow only, don’t go back to the hands.
When out with hand, stretch to the rear foot, don’t let the chest go forward to the hand.
Create a cross in the body, lock it and turn the waist.
Elbow moves towards the kua, step forward without changing the top.
Lean backwards on impact, keep the slant, step forward.
Push towards the opponent centre, change the hands to hook on the opponent’s upper arm, pull in the elbow to the dantian, change hand position to the same dot that was pulled in.
Constrict the elbow, expand the
Day 2
Double negative circle - string of 9 pearls
Small is when there is something it can’t touch like a straight line.
Big is when rotation covers all directions.
Day 3
Fetch water
Chest is maintained throughout the fetch water.
Two shoulders and the kua form the triangle and the place is maintained throughout the fetch water.
The ankle is perpendicular to the ground, it is a nail to the ground.
Learning has a sequence, usage/application has no sequence.
Immortality is not that someone who does not die, it is some deed one did that lasted forever, others will use or benefit and keep talking about this person, like Einstein.
A person wrapped my chest and arms from behind, sink the chest to separate the arms from the torso to create space.
Lock the elbow in space with a caved upper torso. Push the elbow to the fist, so that the forearm whips out. The key is to lock the forearm bit by bit.
Fist lifting and blocking: the fist goes straight, the body has to go down and get out of the way to allow that.
Day 4
Use the towel to train the power
Lock the shoulders to the elbows, move only from the front elbow
We need to have perfect stop at the snap of the towel. I need to open the rear kua. The right shoulder should be in the line between the front hand and rear shoulder. Need to find the perfect length for the towel.
The opponent pushed your top backwards, you go in from the bottom, the rear foot must come in as well, it can’t be too far from the front foot. Push the rear foot against the ground and aim it and your own elbow (the opponent is pressing into your elbow), this will bounce the opponent. no action at your upper body.
Jump with both feet without affecting the height of your shoulders.
Alternate bringing up the knees to touch the hands at shoulder height, don’t bring down the hands to tap the knees.
We need to produce a line in the body. Nobody has that line. The line is the tendon. A string of 9 pearls.
Gaining will feel horrible or vulnerable.
擁 - crowding - different independent parts are working together to achieve a single purpose
