Notes for 如何看 videos

各位学员，何家伟教练将在星期五上午9:30-10:30开始讲三个【如何看】视频:
http://www.shiyongquanfa.cn/archives/96715
http://www.shiyongquanfa.cn/archives/96717
http://www.shiyongquanfa.cn/archives/96719

这系列视频让大家对《看》有了规矩，亦有了方法依从。对日后在讲座与视频学习有莫大帮助。陈中华在视频还讲了多个学习的窍门，真是不能错过。

讲课地点在第一个视频购买页http://www.shiyongquanfa.cn/archives/96715 下面的评论栏里，请大家届时登录网站在那儿的评论栏里上课。提前看完视频后，请把自己的视频笔记与问题放到评语栏里。所有的问题在评论栏里提出，所有的回答也在评论栏里回复。谢谢大家，有不明白的咨询赵青云，微信号：18686108820

Videos:
东台19-1如何看
东台19-2如何看
东台19-3如何看

我们要做笔记，然后放到网站上。一句一句老老实实的写，不要哗众取宠。看到多少就多少。
我们生活中基本都是坏习惯，它让我们慢慢地死去。我们要的是规矩，但我们不愿意守规矩，任自己的意思去做。从少到大一个孩子学习十八年，毕业后两三天就学坏了。好的东西我们不愿做，坏的东西正合意就记住了。顺着自己意愿做，像是很容易不辛苦。反过来，一辈子守规矩，像是很辛苦。辛苦不辛苦，都是自己想出来的。到最后，守规矩就会有得着。我们能学会，辛辛苦苦，好好听话，进步就很快了。老师跟每个人说一说，记住了，三年之内改了，就行了。
当老师做示范时，我们一定不要做别的，只能看。不能同时模仿，因为一动，我们就看不见，也听不见了。老师的动作，就算好好看，看十年还是看不见。如果不好好看...（那就没you学到）。
怎样才是好好看？看哪里的指令要具体的，不会让人误会的，当对方是小孩一样。清清楚楚的说出来。看的要全神贯注的看，不能被别的东西干扰、打断。
我们常常犯的错是改变了老师的用词，亦就是改变了老师的原意。用词改了，我们只会记得自己的用词，不记得老师的用词。用词要跟老师一样，动作要模仿老师的动作。就算现在不明白老师的用词，不要把它变，记录下它就是。将来，看多了，听多了，练多了，慢慢就会真正的明白它。
在视频了，老师用了一个【你过来这里】的对话例子来表述不具体表达的问题。这里是哪儿呢？我们的脑子常常有一些假设，但是别人也有他自己的假设。不清楚说出来，我们是不会知道是否一样的，但是我们以为对方知道的是一样的，误会就是这样产生的，虚话变真话。我们要具体到不容许出偏差。有机会出偏差就会出偏差。
老师示范画圈。大自然是没圈/圆的，都是我们自己想出来的。我们这个拳是模仿大自然的，但如果大自然没有，我们模仿什么呢？大自然没有圆的事物，但有圆的现象。圆的现象出现后就没了，我们也可以用身体做同样的。
老师解释了三角形是圆。从起点走到终点，但终点跟起点是同一地方。A->B->C->A。回到原点就是圆。
我们常常改话题，但是自己不知道。
我们这个拳，重要的东西是没有参照物的。画正圈，起点在空中，要回到那一点是很难的。那怎样做呢？我们要想办法把这个看不到的点看到。用一些不动不变（死的）的参照物把它的位置定下来。
阴阳是中华文化最精华的东西，它描述世界的万物。我们要用一个存在的【阳】表述一个不存在的【阴】，那个不存在就变成真实的了。

提议大家阅读以下两篇文章：
看和读
五多一不

如何看? （请在评语栏写出在视频你学到的方法或要求）

1. 看什么东西，那东西要具体，不能有想象空间。
2. 专心的看，不能同时做别的东西。不能一边模仿一边看。
3. 用参照物。
4. 用不同方法、角度去看。

Intent

Today, there was a discussion among some of the North American disciples on intent. What is it? What does it mean?

The discussion allowed me to solidfy a couple of things.

In 2019 Iowa Camp, shifu mentioned:

Spencer's notes:
The camp’s lessons this time were pervaded by the idea of “intention”. Intention in PM is what we call “to lead”. For example, in the positive circle, the elbow in is the “lead” Intention has no meaning in itself, but it changes everything. I am starting to realize this is one of the reasons Master Chen’s form looks so much different than mine and I can never figure out why. Your eyes can only see movement. The act of leading translates to intention, and when intention is used, the action is different. In with elbow, turn at waist, out with hand… You have to be clear about those intentions. Say them aloud! When the intention is clear, you produce a very thin line. From one large thing, you pull out one dot. This is the concept of silk reeling.

My notes:
Lead - Intention
Intention can only be seen if there is movement, or change in structure.
When the intention is different, the result is different.

In with elbow, turn with waist, out with hand.
We need to say it out loud.
They make a triangle.
Isolate the three lines.
The triangle becomes a circle because of the rotation of the centre (which is an illusion)
3 independent ways to lead
3 intentions

Hugo mentioned water drop rolling down the window.

Shifu also mentioned before, "Real intent is no intent".

My thinking at the moment is that it is about the inevitable consequence when something is done.  Nothing needs to be forced by me.

If A is done, B must become the result, then A is an intent.  However, there is a relationship between A and B that must be maintained, otherwise, A is not an intent. e.g. A is your push on a revolving door, B is the resolving door rotating and hitting you back. The relationship is that the solid door with a non-moving axis that it can rotate on. With that relationship, you know that when you do A, B must become the result (there is no other possibility). A is indirect with B.

The word "lead" means going first, e.g. every section of a bicycle chain must go through the same spot one after another. The first one going through is the leader. This is also related to the concept that our actions must be vertical (going in the direction of the length of an object) and not horizontal.

Taiji Postures

Block Touching Coat

Single Whip

Taken at Trent-Severn Waterway Lock 38 on June 30, 2019.

Shifu's comment:
何家伟的两张照片显示出来筋的力。开始用筋之后，自身必然能够合住劲。
Both of Kelvin Ho's pictures displayed the power from tendon. With the use of tendon, the body will be able to hold the power (without collapse or leakage).

Sensing the energy in the opponent

It has been a while since I notice how students are powering up when they engage with each other while I am watching from the side without touching them. I am not yet sure how I can tell. Is it their subtle movement, body language or something else? E.g. I can tell if they are pushing from the heel or toes, if they are powering up with a back muscle, at the shoulder, or with the kua. This information is useful in identifying the fixed dot in the opponent's body. It allows me to help the students understand their bodies, and what they are actually doing. They ask me how I can tell, however at this point, I honestly don't know how I know, I just do. It just seems like the energy is running through the body.
Today, I was teaching a student how to kick with heel. The focus was to stretch the back of the leg and not let the energy get stuck on the knee. I was telling the student the difference between the proper and non-proper ones. I realized that I was not using my eyes or any touch to tell if she was stretching or not. The leg might be extended but not necessarily stretched. We did a test with me looking a way to see if I could tell if she was stretching or not. We repeated the test a few times, and somehow I could tell. Was I using some sort of sound? I was not sure, I just felt it in my body somehow. This was written for the sake of recording the incident.
One of the ways to learn to locate the fixed dot is to put some pressure on the opponent and see how he reacts to it, e.g. how he resists it. The same person tends to react the same way, the more you work with a person, the more you are used to his actions and can anticipate what he will do. The more people you work with, the more developed the skill. It eventually helps in dealing with you have never met before.

Drilling Down

This week, I found myself able to drill the opponent down causing him to eventually fall vertically to the ground.  The particular exercise was about me putting my right hand on the opponent's right shoulder, and my right thigh behind the opponent's left thigh. I pulled my elbow down his back and towards my right kua to lock the opponent (This would cause a compression on the opponent's spine). I realized a fixed dot at the opponent's left ribs. I opened my right kua upwards, and ended up taking out the space in the opponent. The result was that the opponent left leg would fly straight out, and I would be like drilling him straight to the ground with the original fixed dot going straight down with no tossing. Note that it was important not to thinking about rotating myself or the opponent at all. The rotation was only the result, and not my action. When I opened my kua, I opened it with a straight aim in a particular direction tightly in front of the fixed dot on the opponent's front. At the same time, I did a separate stretch tightly behind the fixed dot on the opponent's back. This was just like putting the hands on the stick of a rattle drum in order to spin it. I did the same drill the prior week with the same person. He commented that it felt different this week. He was falling with my action, and it was more crisp. I tried the exercise with a different fixed dot. This time it was on his right ribs. The result was the same. I drilled him down on that axis.  I tried this exercise with another person. Besides doing it by opening the kua as described above, I did it also by stretching the head/neck to the other side of the dot. It was like tipping the lever on the other end of the lever compared to what was done with the kua. I remembered first time creating a similar result a few years ago with Master Chen Zhonghua providing step-by-step verbal instructions on the side. Not until now (9+ years of training), I am able to do it in a controlled/limited manner on my own. Master Chen said training taiji was like boiling water. Water at 30 degrees, 70 degrees, 90 degress, etc is still water (H20 in liquid form), not until it reaches 100 degrees, it would become steam (H20 in gas form) and have fundamental change.  However, we must keep boiling, and not stop the fire.  This is known as huo hou 火候 in Chinese.

Get myself to where I am about to fall

I have realized the spot/cliff where I need to put myself at along with the opponent after tying him up with me. That is the spot/moment where I need to rotate. Another way to say it will be the spot where gravity is matched. That is the spot that I am vulnerable, about to fall, I feel fear, so I don't want to get there, and often stop myself too early before I get there.

John Upshaw's feedback on my sword form

1. The right elbow/hand rotates inward and sword hand rotates inward and towards direction it is going before you step. 
2. The right elbow/hand rotates inward and sword hand rotates inward and towards direction it is going before you step. There is a little bit of a positive before going out and striking with another positive circle.
3. When stepping forward with your left foot, it lands in an invert manner causing your body to coil. The sword is the released, powered by the release of the coil.
   When you cut the grass to seek the snake....the rotation is on the left knee....it is like a hinge...the rest of the body is like a door. I see your right knee stepping and thus collapsing...that should be one piece, like the door, that rotates on the hinge.