http://practicalmethod.com/2011/07/shoulder-movements-in-positive-circle-online-video-trailer/
In this video, Master Chen showed us how to prevent an opponent's incoming force from penetrating into ourselves with the 3rd count of the positive circle. It is a invalueable aspect of the positive circle.
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Notes:
Although this was shot 8 years ago in 2011, the sensation was still fresh in my mind.
0:23 Master Chen demonstrated that a conflict was created by the incoming force and his push back. In the demo, I was pushing on his bisep, and the energy went though to his other side. By locking his body, and he opened his armpit, my energy was directed/deflected elsewhere.
1:36 In order for Master Chen to further open in the 2nd half of the positive circle, he rotated his bicep with inside of the arm going from top to bottom, and this action was matched by his right chest going the opposite way on one side and his hand on the other side. His elbow did not go wth the turn of the bicep and the shoulder-to-kua line is also not moving.
2:36 Master Chen said that he found his own space to push into. That was the connection.
3:30 Master Chen let the opponent push into him. He led the opponent into this special place, which allowed his hand to have power, and this was considered connected.
4:00 Master Chen talked about intention. The opponent wanted to push him back, but his intention was to resist. If the opponent was able to push Master Chen to go in a way that the opponent wanted, and the opponent successfully made Master Chen follow his intention. However, if Master Chen was able to go in a way he desired himself that he could link it back to his finger, and the opponent was not aware of it, then it would not be the same even though on the surface it was similar to the first case according to what the opponent wanted. This was what Master Chen meant for that special place. Until we are able to produce that difference as mentioned, do not use the word "intent".
6:26 Master Chen further explained the action concerning the bicep before. The right biecep goes out, the right chest muscle goes in, and the top of the shoulder does not move. He called it concentric stretching.
7:30 Master Chen demonstrated using two pairs of dots to create the concentric stretch. First pair: a dot on the outside of the right bicep and a dot on the right ribs. Second pair: a dot on the side of the right bicep and a dot on the right chest.
8:48 Master Chen used the analogy of the rivot on a pair of scissors to describe the non-moving dot. If there is no rivot that is well made and shared on the two blades of the scissors, there are no scissors. If there is no non-moving dot, there is no taiji.
10;00 Master Chen vividly demonstrated two different pair of scissors in his body.
10:50 All the joints can be used as rivots. What are rivots? They are shared pivoting points. These are the basic elements of taiji. Without them, there is no taiji.
12:30 Master Chen demonstrated actions with intentions and ones without.
13:20 It is not necessary that we have no muscles, but we must be even.
14:00 By looking at the various students, we get a better idea of what the requirements are, and how each student shares some common mistakes but at the same time has his own mistakes.
19:07 Master Chen showed how the inside of the knee work exactly the same way as how the shoulder must create a concentric stretch.
19:44 Master Chen showed the left kua and the left kua doing two different directions of concentric stretches. We have 9 on each side, and 18 in total of these concentric stretches that can be accumulated or added together.
20:44 Master Chen demonstrated a 5-way split. A dot on his right ribs is stretched against his right bicep, head, left shoulder, left knee and right knee.
23:22 Cave-in: We have to learn what cave-in means by watching Master Chen closely. If we were in person with him, touch and feel what he was doing. Don't try to change the words and try to change it to fit what we might be thinking. Try to understand what Master Chen really means. Later in the video, he also called this mud slide. Mountain was still there, but the mud just slid off the mountain. The back could not move, when the chest caved in. This is separation of yin and yang.
24:30 If we have two parts, we only move one part, then we will have power. If we move both parts, there is no power. Consider how a sling-shot works.
29:30 Only things we don't know appear to be difficult to us.
30:40 When something does not move, there is no feeling to it. Just like floor, it is there every day, but we don't talk about it. Only when there is an earthquake, we talk about it because it moves.
31:55 We should not feel power if it is correct. We only feel the mistakes. The correct moves are simple.
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