Here is my summary at this stage:
Taijiquan is our body expression of separation of yin and yang. There are different degrees, layers, and dimensions of separation, which are manifested as different levels of ability.
这是我现阶段对太极拳的总结：
太极拳就用身体来演绎分阴阳。怎样分可以有不同的程度、层次、维度，也是功力深厚的表现。
Bend the knees to go down while the torso is fixed and straight. The hand goes out proportionally.
First Move
Squeeze into dantian:
Kua up elbow down
Left elbow against the right kua
Elbow meets the kua, two become one.
There is never right or wrong. There is only one thing that is wanted.
Direction - 1
Alignment - 2
开拳
开-松开-断开
分开-拉开-转开
Day 2
Negative Circle - Lock the top and turn only the waist
Fetch Water - Back of the knee and back of the shoulder blade stretch on the same line
Six Sealing and Four Closing - Dot on hand and the back of the shoulder blade stretch
Right, reset, left, reset
Waist turning exercise (lock the top)
Twisting the towel (go down as the hand goes out)
Rip the shirt exercise with the twisting the towel
Rip the shirt exercise with six sealing four closing
Using the leg to trip, the knee goes down to the heel instead of hitting to the opponent.
Traditionally, asking and answering are through hands.
Kai - use the waist lock the top
On the opponent’s shirt only when opponent pushes
|_|__ -> |___| -> __|_|
Elbow inwards the kua.
Opponent pushes my forearm, the hand points up, hand and shoulder are a pair on the straight line, split. Nothing in the forearm.
Initial Closing Application
Shake opponent three time. Kua goes down to create distance without moving the hand. Pull elbow to the kua.
Negative Circle - turn the shoulder, but it hits the wall and it goes down instead. (Yi and Li Separation)
Suck - Knee and opposite shoulder to the dantian
Big body movement and little or no hand movement
If you are aligned, you can’t move.
If you can move, you can’t align.
Day 4
Zhou - Adherence - Hold (Doing Bie can have Zhuo)
Zhuo on the opponent is a hook, Zhuo on myself is a handle.
Looking for universal principle
Two armpits and between the legs. 3 pairs squeezing and releasing.
Release to make the book drop.
Absolutely no push, we need to be like constipated.
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 an 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)
Always focus on finding and using the line, and not fixate on 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.
Exercise: Hug the opponent and hold the top structure, don't open the elbows, the armpits. Drop the tailbone.
Exercise: Hold the opponent with push and pull on the arms, lock the top. Baihui to huiyin line to the floor, rotate on that axis. Only try to rotate by a little bit, there is a lot of pressure on the legs. The opponent and myself must be one.
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.
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.
Shovel out is need to be matched with elbow in. There is a non-moving dot in the middle.
When the standard can be outside, you are not the standard.
封缝 feng - seal the gap
After the seal, just shake the middle, 1 and 2 to set up, 3 to shake
Thigh behind his thigh - shovel out, hit with the kua, don’t let the opponent fall backwards, he should sit down.
From one, split into two vectors.u
Aim at one dot in opponent’s body, and walk around.
